This is one good and at the same time sad story. Good, because the massive structure is now completed; but sad because the man who built it neither set foot on it nor even saw the ‘final work’. I’m talking about late banker and former MD of GTB, Tayo Aderinokun.
Tarino Towers (coined from his name and surname) was one of the huge projects he devoted so much attention and money to. But as fate would have it, he never got to see it upon completion. Situated on Alfred Rewane Road in highbrow Ikoyi (Lagos), and just before Southern Sun Hotel, he looked forward to completing it and also joining the league of other tops bankers like Jim Ovia, Subomi Balogun, Tony Elumelu, etc who own luxury homes and apartments in the area, until death decreed otherwise.