Ibidunni Ighodalo

Ibidunni Ighodalo (July 1980 – 14 June 2020) was a beauty queen, an event management expert, a philanthropist, and a co-pastor of Trinity House Church, in Lagos, Nigeria. She is the founder of Elizabeth R, a public relations and event company; and Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation, a non-profit organization that is focused on supporting families with infertility challenges.

Biography Ibidunni Ighodalo was born in Kaduna, Kaduna State on 19 July 1980. She is the fifth child of eight children of Olaleye Ajayi.

Ighodalo attended K-Kotun Primary School in Surulere, Lagos the Miss Lux beauty Pageant, and in 1999 she was the first-ever winner of the Miss Lux Beauty Pageant. This created pathways to her career in event management. In 2003, she established her event management and public relation company, known as Elizabeth R, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House Church and both have two adopted children. Ighodalo was open about her own struggles to conceive, and her passion to help families that are suffering from infertility. She once narrated in an interview how they struggled to have their own children, visited hospitals and were told by medical doctors that their only option is to seek treatment through assisted reproduction. Ighodalo said that she had done IVF 11 times and it failed every time, and during the last attempt, she was pregnant with twins. She lost the pregnancy after three months. These experiences led her to establish Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation to create awareness on infertility and provide financial supports for families with such issues to do IVF. for couples to undergo IVF, and carried out awareness.

Ighodalo died in the early hours of Sunday morning, 14 June 2020 in Port Harcourt, in Southern Nigeria. Before her death, she was on assignment to set up a COVID-19 isolation centre for the River State government. Ighodalo died at age 39.