Yemi Adenuga has made history after being elected as the first Black female representative to the Ireland County Council. Adenuga was elected to Meath County Council as a Fine Gael councilor for the Navan area in the local elections.
Adenuga has been making waves in her community, being on the board of Cultúr – an organization in Navan that “works with migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, promoting equal rights and opportunities to develop an intercultural County Meath.”
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Born in Nigeria, she is the sixteenth of 27 children from a father with seven wives. She has a bachelor’s in business studies, which she bagged in 2010, and a postgraduate certificate from University College Dublin. She completed her MBA at Liverpool John Moores University.
Adenuga also runs Sheroes Global, “a women development and support organization with a mission to build women & youth to become positive change agents through changing orientation and to build a positive mindset,” which she launched in 2012.
In an interview with the Irish Examiner, the newly elected official said:
“I’m delighted to be declared the first migrant councillor in Meath and I’m really looking forward to working with the council on issues that affect the people in the town and county. This is a victory not just for me but for all women and ethnic minorities.”
Yemi Adenuga enjoyed a long broadcasting career in her homeland but moved to Ireland “for pastures new” almost 20 years ago.
Alongside her husband, they also manage Nigerian Carnival Ireland, a cultural, diversity, and inclusion company that delivers programs in Ireland and Nigeria.
Her husband has starred in over 200 films over the last 25 years and flies over and back from Nigeria. They married in 1992 and have four children together.
