Nike Adeyemi is an Author, International Conference Speaker, Minister and Co-Pastor of the Daystar Christian Centre. She was born on the 11th of April, 1967 to the family of Professor Gabriel and Princess Aderonke Ogunmola. She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University (then University of Ife) with a B.Sc and M.Sc in Architecture in 1989 and 1991 respectively. She studied further to obtain her Masters in Business Administration from Business Studies, Netherlands. She also trained in Strategic Perspective for Non-Profit Management at Harvard Business School. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Researchers and Administrators of Nigeria and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Social Workers.
Adenike, a woman of simplicity and humility as she is fondly refered to by her husband, Sam Adeyemi is passionate about social justice, family, enterprise and education. She is a gracious helper and problem solver, filled with compassion and anointed to bring emotional healing to hurting women through the teaching and preaching of God’s word. This made her set up the “Real Women Foundation”, a non-profit organization dedicated to the healing and empowerment of women and children economically and socially. She was inspired to start the foundation after she frequently encountered prostitutes on the streets of Oregun, Ikeja. She revealed, “you’d see them moving about aimlessly at night. I began to notice them and became concerned. I would say to myself, ‘‘This is someone’s daughter or sister selling her body.’’ I wasn’t even so concerned about the kind of clothes they wore, but the thought of them selling their bodies made me cringe. I was genuinely interested in their welfare and that was when I noticed that I had the gift of compassion. One day, someone told me that he discovered a brothel where some of these girls lived and I asked him to take me there. I wore my jeans and without holding any Bible, I went into this brothel which was a face-me-I-face-you bungalow. I walked in there and I was looking for someone to talk to. The first girl I met said her name was Sandra, and I told her that I was looking for my sister. I began to describe an imaginary person and when I saw that I couldn’t go any further because I am not an expert in telling lies, I had to come out with the truth. I asked her what she was doing there and I began to talk to her. A little while after, she opened up to me and the rest is history. She invited me into her room and my heart was further broken when she told me that she pays the owner of the brothel N100 daily. That means in a month, her rent was N3, 000. They paid on a daily basis, so it was quite a flexible arrangement for them. I remember telling her at that time that around Ogba/Iju area, she could get a three-bedroom apartment for N30, 000/N36, 000 per annum. Sandra became my first friend and from that day onwards, all of them there became my friends. I went back there in December, 1997 because I had my second child in February of that year. I went there after church on Christmas Day after my husband had gone home with our two kids. I cooked rice, put it in a cooler and went there with drinks. I told them, ‘‘I’m not here to talk to you today, just enjoy the season, eat and keep my mineral bottles.’’ They became my friends and it started a whole new career path for me because I remember going to the United Kingdom shortly after that to be part of a four-day conference which dwelt on trafficking and I met with people from other parts of the world. The foundation got officially registered in 2001 with their main focus on women, striving to get rid of sexual violence against women and the scourge of prostitution in the society, then later extended their services towards children. This led to the set up of the Love Home Orphanage. Today, the Real Women Foundation through the Peace Villa shelter/rehab centre for women and the Love Home Orphanage has helped several women go from the streets to earning college degrees, own businesses and resettle in new communities and help rescued children thrive with the hope of a brighter future.
Adenike Adeyemi is also the President of Real Woman International Incorporation, an organization in Atlanta, Georgia USA which holds conferences, empowerment seminars and outreaches and the host of ‘Real Woman with Nike Adeyemi’ a global TV broadcast where she and her guests share wisdom on issues that affect women. She is an Author of the following books, ‘The Real Woman’, ‘Building a Successful Home’, ‘Woman an Asset to the nation’ and ‘Great Parenting’. She is the Principal Consultant at Gabriel and Princess Limited, a training and consulting company specializing in work-life balance.
She is married to Pastor Samuel Adeyemi (Senior Pastor Daystar Christian Centre) and is a dedicated mother of 3 children. The Architect turned pastor is the Co-founder, Deputy Senior Pastor and Director, Women Ministries of Daystar Christian Church. She is also a facilitator at the Daystar Leadership Academy. Alongside her husband, Sam Adeyemi at Daystar Christian Centre, she has for over twenty years deployed leadership and administrative skills in building a church dedicated to raising role models in the society. Their love story can be dated back to three decades ago when young Pastor Sam was a parish pastor at Rhema Chapel in Lagos and Adenike, was a member. She had just graduated and was posted to Lagos for her mandatory one-year youth service. They met at Rhema Chapel where they both worshipped. Nike and Sam started as friends, before building a relationship that led to walking down the aisle and exchanging marital vows. After their marriage, Pastor Sam and Nike started their ministry, DayStar Christian Centre. To make the ministry easy, Sam Adeyemi takes charge of the Church while Nike is out on the street winning souls to the Kingdom and also blessing many women via her Real Women Foundation. Ever since the establishment of the ministry, they have been growing from grace to grace, raising giants, and mentoring leaders.
Asides being a co-pastor at Daystar Christian Centre, Adenike also pastors at Love Assembly, Atlanta, United States. She pioneered the Pneuma Publishing Limited, an information resource management company duly registered by the ministry in 1995. The business was established just for the passion for books and information. She started the company by selling local and foreign books that had aided her growth and development while growing up. This, she did, within the living room, through encouragement from her husband, who later wrote the book, Start With What You Have. Then a shop was acquired simultaneously. Pneuma Publishing House became the sole publisher of Adeyemi’s books.
She is a recipient of many awards and serves on the board of other non-profit and for profit organizations. She is a recipient of the PSR Woman Empowerment Award, the Woman of Merit Award, Award of Excellence and outstanding contributions in service to humanity and nation building and the Contemporary Age Women of Virtue, amongst others.
A woman of excellence, virtue, simplicity and humility, Pastor Nike Adeyemi is a role model and mentor to lots of women and children. She has empowered and has been a blessing to many lives.
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