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Nkechi Okocha
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Nkechi Okocha

Entrepreneur

Nkechi Okocha is a Nigerian entrepreneur who founded Sanctuary Securities Limited, a business supplying security equipment. In a first-person interview, she described starting the company in 2007 and developing work involving CCTV, access control and other protective systems. She and former Nigeria midfielder Jay-Jay Okocha met in Enugu in 1994 and married in January 1998. They have two children, Daniella and A-Jay. The couple marked their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with a vow renewal in the Maldives in 2023.

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THE BACKGROUND

Career and background

In her November 2023 interview, Okocha traced Sanctuary Securities Limited to 2007. She described supplying products such as security doors, smoke detectors, access-control systems and CCTV, with clients including banks. Her account presents business as a substantive part of her life alongside parenting and the international moves associated with her husband’s football career. The description records her experience at the time of the interview.Source: THISDAY Style ↗

The couple met at a wedding in Enugu on 31 December 1994 and married three years later, on 3 January 1998. Their family life included periods in Turkey, France and England. In October 2023, they renewed their vows in the Maldives while celebrating twenty-five years of marriage. They are parents to Daniella and A-Jay; their children’s private lives are not expanded beyond the documented family connection.Sources: THISDAY Style ↗ · BellaNaija ↗ · Legit.ng ↗

WHO’S WITH WHOM

Relationship history

Nkechi and Jay-Jay Okocha met on 31 December 1994 and married on 3 January 1998. They have two children, Daniella and A-Jay, and renewed their vows in the Maldives in 2023.

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FAMILY

Children

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