It’s another grass to grass story……
Nigerian business tycoon, Folorunsho Alakija, has said going to the university
was not her destiny as she was able to achieve her dreams without a degree.
Alakija, one of the richest black women in the
world, said this on Thursday at the Excellence in Leadership program, an annual
event organised by Daystar Christian Centre, Ikeja, Lagos.
The founder of Rose of Sharon motivated the
audience by saying that she never allowed a lack of university education to
suppress her dreams and ambition.
“If I had the opportunity of going to the
university, maybe I would have come out with a second class upper or lower but
that didn’t happen; that wasn’t to be my destiny,” she said.
I would have loved to go to the university as
we all know that university education is good but some of us who have not gone,
it is not the end of the world.”
Alakija said she was able to attain her present position because
she was determined and ready to pay the price that came with all the challenges
she’s had to surmount.
“Having put my foot in the door, I decided
I was not going to turn back”, she noted, revealing that when she had to
file a lawsuit against the federal government for taking 50 out of her 60
percent equity, she remained determined.
The case which took 12 years to reach a
conclusion was a matter of determination, she said. Alakija said she her person
has been subjected to series of misconceptions due to the ignorance of people
who don’t know her story.
The oil magnate noted that she is a product of
hard work, sweat, tears, and tenacity, stressing that she’s not an overnight
success.
“A lot of things have been said about me, some say I sold my way
to the top; I remember that the headline of one of the national dailies in the
country once said ‘Hairdresser given an oil block’. So I even became a
hairdresser, one of the many names I was given.”
She encouraged participants at the conference
to believe in themselves as it would be easier for others to believe in such
people; she added that she believed in herself while moving from fashion
designing to an unfamiliar terrain.
Source: jejeupdates
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