Diamond Bank ends 2013 with the fabulous Black &Diamonds party

Diamond Bank ends 2013 with the
fabulous Black &Diamonds party
Bankers do know how to groove! If you are in
doubt, ask anyone who attended Diamond Bank’s
2013 long service awards cum end-of-year party
dubbed 'Black & Diamonds Party' which held at the
Landmark Event Centre on Friday, 13 December
2013.
The event with the theme Black & Diamonds was
spurred out of the need to celebrate Diamond
Bank' s outstanding performance this year and
members of staff who had put in a minimum of 10
years in the service of the Bank. Continue....
Anchored by leading comedian Bovi, the audience
was taken through a delightful event as they
enjoyed the best of choice wines and cuisine even
as Bovi ensured that the guests, made up of
Diamond Bank staff, their spouses and customers,
were in stitches as he dished out rib cracking
jokes continuously.
Highlights of the party included the long service
awards where various members of staff who had
put in 10 and 20 years in the employ of the Bank,
were presented with their awards by the Bank’s
Group Managing Director/CEO, Dr. Alex Otti. Dr.
Otti commended the awards recipients for their
service and loyalty to the Diamond brand and
wished them many more fruitful years in their
banking careers.
The Black & Diamonds party was not devoid of the
usual hitches associated with events of this
magnitude. Olamide stepped on stage to deliver
what would be described as a disappointing
performance which came across as unprepared
and unrehearsed. Hip-hop sensation Davido,
helped to salvage the situation however by dishing
out various songs from his rich repertoire,
crowning it with his recent street anthem,
Skelewu.
Strangely Basket mouth who was billed to perform
at the party showed unprofessionalism by not
making it to the event. Innocent ‘Tuface’ Idibia
brought the event to magnificent climax at
around 1am, when he mounted the stage and
dished out hit track after hit track to the admiration
of the guests. As at 3am when this reporter left
Landmark Event Centre, Oniru the crowd was still
dancing to various club tracks delivered by the
DJ.
Although several bank’s hosted their end-of-year
parties at the same time, I am more than
convinced that Diamond Bank’s was the “rockest”
of them all.