Haaa! Bimbo Esho again? By Wale Ojo-Lanre

Yes ooo.

This beautiful lady .

The one in this picture.

The same Bimbo Esho.

The one that refuses to retire Nigerian music to the museum.The woman who keeps insisting that good music did not die in the 1980s.

That Lady of grace.

You know her.

Ah—don’t pretend. You know her.

She just went and did it again.

Faaji Eko.

A full musical resurrection in Lagos.

Old songs stood up.Legends cleared their throats.

Memories danced without apology.

Now the news is everywhere.

Hot.

True.

Unavoidable.

Good Lord!

Anyway…

Anyhow…

In all things, we return the glory to God—because when excellence keeps happening, only heaven can explain it.

Today, that beautiful, brilliant, and resourceful soul adds another year.

Lady Abimbola Esho clocks another remarkable year, and Nigeria—once again—has no choice but to pause. Not to gossip. Not to argue. But to acknowledge.

Because Bimbo Esho is not a music promoter. No.She is a cultural emergency response unit.A heritage archivist with attitude.A visionary curator of Nigerian sound memory.

As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Evergreen Musical Company, she has stubbornly, consistently, and almost single-handedly dragged Nigeria’s classic music back from neglect—restoring dignity to legends who built our golden era before hashtags replaced harmony.

She is the brain, the heartbeat, and sometimes the unpaid volunteer behind the Evergreen Musical Party and Concert Series—that rare platform where generations shake hands, where yesterday’s melodies meet today’s ears, and where legends are celebrated alive, not embalmed by tributes.

Through her labour—quiet, loud, exhausting, and thankless—forgotten vinyls breathe again.Old masters smile again.And Nigeria’s musical soul remembers itself.

A goal-getter with an uncommon Midas touch, Bimbo Esho turns nostalgia into relevance, memory into movement, and history into living experience. She understands music not as background noise, but as identity, therapy, economy, culture, and continuity.

Big in physical presence.

Bigger in intellectual depth.

Biggest in emotional intelligence.

She is a conductor of joy, a dealer in excitement, thrills, and refined pleasure—dangerously gifted with the power to inject happiness into dull moments through music. Wherever Bimbo Esho shows up, silence resigns and gloom politely exits.

Bold.

Beautiful.

Brilliant.

Broad-minded.

Indeed, she is a music connoisseur, a heritage harvester, and—if metaphor must misbehave—a benevolent witch doctor of sound, resurrecting souls through rhythm and harmony.

On this day, I celebrate a woman whose work fits perfectly into the language of cultural tourism, heritage preservation, and the creative economy—values we hold dear in Ekiti State and beyond.

Happy Birthday, Lady Abimbola Esho.

May your years be long, your impact deeper, and your music louder—whether Nigeria is ready or not.

Signed:

Barrister Wale Ojo-Lanre, Esq.

Director-General,

Ekiti State Bureau of Tourism Development