Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Nigerian actress, has taken to social media to celebrate Matthew Ekeinde, her husband, on World Pilots’ Day.
World Pilots’ Day is celebrated in honour of a flight made by Fesa Evrensev, the first pilot to receive a brevet in Turkey on April 26.
Omotola took to her Instagram page to acknowledge the date by sharing stunning photos of her husband in his uniform.
In one of the photos, Mathew can be seen alongside celebrities like Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, BBNaija host, and Seun Okin of Channels Television.
“To One of the best pilots Africa has produced, your passengers have attested to you having the smoothest landing ever. A cordial, jovial pilot, and extremely reliable training captain,” she wrote.
“And to all the pilots out there; who we totally rely on to bring us safely to the ground when we fly. Thank you! I feel the safest when you’re the one flying me.”
A Timeline of the couple’s marriage
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Mathew Ekeinde met when she was 16 and he was 26. He proposed to her two years after they met.
The couple got married in 1996 but decided to have their dream wedding in 2001 with a number of friends and family on board a Dash 7 aircraft while flying from Lagos to Benin.
They have since gone to become one of the most influential celebrity couples in the entertainment world. The couple have four children together.
Just recently, the actress mourned a cousin of hers who was said to have died of a kidney complication in the UK.
She had said her cousin could not get proper treatment because doctors were focused on COVID-19 patients.
“I lost a dear cousin yesterday in London. I’m hurting. He didn’t get COVID-19. He died from a kidney transplant complication,” she had written.
She added: “He couldn’t get proper healthcare because the Hospitals were focused on COVID-19 and help didn’t get to him fast enough. How sad.”