Born with an innate passion to see couples happy, Kingsley Chimezie Oruonye, Abia-born event compere could not but take up a career opportunity in making couple’s special days truly special, which is manifested in the quality of MC services he offers.
In a short while in the industry, Aloy of London as he is popularly referred has truly demonstrated that hard work with a touch of uniqueness from what others do can take one to greater heights, bringing him before kings and queens. He has redefined events with a touch of deluxe service. According to him ” that’s all we stand for, redefining luxury event that’s all we do by making sure every couple have a different feel on their event day”
With a professional wedding MC career that started in 2020, he has gone places, stamping his feet as a personality to reckon with when it comes to high profile society weddings, criss-crossing across the length and breadth of the country, the West African sub-region, bringing organic happiness that lasts just beyond the wedding day into lives of couples.
Today, the graduate of Federal University Maiduguri has emerged as the highest paid wedding MC not just in Nigeria but across the West African sub-region, a claim backed by empirical facts.
One of the high profile weddings he has anchored in recent times is one between daughter of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Maryam and her heartthrob, Musa a wedding which had a week-long series of activities.
The wedding in Abuja, the nation’s capital saw Aloy of London at his very best for three days, involving opening ceremony, dinner which had in attendance politically exposed individuals and their spouses, then the cocktail. It takes an extraordinarily talented MC to anchor the same event for three days and still retain his flow with abundant contents in his kitty. Aloy is one of those MCs.
When it comes to top-tier weddings, Aloy of London is usually the go-to person because of his excellent delivery, his mastery of audience, the operating environment and their peculiar cultural and religious values.
Fluent in Hausa language, he is a very popular face in Arewa weddings. Just last year, he hosted the wedding between Aisha Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, daughter of Kano former governor and the son of business mogul, Fahad Dahiru Manga, the owner of Max Air.
It is also a known fact that the Arewas spend big on weddings, especially when it concerns a prominent individual. Observers say celebrity weddings don’t even come close to what the Northerners spend in a typical Arewa wedding.
If it’s a “big man’s” wedding, especially in the North, Aloy of London is most likely the MC you’ll see there. This is a product of the confidence he has built there over the years, a reputation he has kept and trust he has upheld. The only thing that can make him not to take up a wedding MC in any part of the country is, if he is fully booked and has no time or inability of the organizers to meet the financial obligations required to have Aloy at their wedding.
He has the talent of hosting every tribe wedding, making him one of the very few MCs in Nigeria that can do that. He hosted the traditional wedding of governor Chukwuma Soludo’s daughter, Delta former Deputy Governor’s daughter, and most recently one involving the son of Chief of Staff of Staff to Lagos State Governor. His presence in the South is also felt.
No West African nation beats Nigeria when it comes to expensive weddings and Arewa region, where Aloy of London has largely operated in the last five years.
He has also maintained the core value of not taking up two jobs in one day, to avoid a situation where one of them would suffer. It takes a man with proven integrity to do this.
For people flying into Nigeria just to have a talk-of-the-town wedding, Aloy is also their choice MC.
Not long ago, he hosted weddings in Italy and London, gearing up for others taking place in Greece and Portugal.
Though the cost of inviting him was not disclosed, his close associates say millions of naira will be on ground before he could consider providing MC service for any particular occasion.
