ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

To God, I take my hearty bow,

To my own mother, I owe my due,

To the Dada’s and Idris’ family, ‘gracias’

To my friends, old and young, in Nigeria and beyond, you all are

wonderful experience.

To my colleagues and prospective colleagues, the sky is your

platform, God your limit.

To my admirers and well wishers, I say ‘MERCI BEACOUP’

To Nigeria, your time is now

To Africa Yes we can

Beyond the realm of words,

To all the world even my readers,

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE…

FROM THE AUTHOR

Money and power, either one or both has always been and will

always be man’s desire or say need from history till generations unborn. In

addressing the issue of money, this book underscores the fact that money

is not physical cash alone, as we may admit it also involves the mindset.
 This is also applicable to power too. The fact is the centre focus of

money and power in recent times is traceable to entrepreneurship and

leadership. A true entrepreneur acquires true money and a true leader

radiates true power. In addition there is need to re-focus minds from the

perspective of money or power acquisition at the expense of others’

happiness and life and inculcate the habits of adding value to create

wealth and adding value to build people which is the hallmark of true

entrepreneurs and leaders whose footprints are infinitely and positively

left in the sand of time and would through the necessary but scarce

instrumentality of true leadership and entrepreneurship salvage Nigeria

and the African continent from the conundrum of destruction to the

benefit and growth of the global society.

Enjoy the mental voyage as you read this book.

In GOD’s love,

Timi Olagunju.
 CHAPTER ONE

MATTERS ARISING

“When the education of a nation is compromised, the future is

compromised” - Biodun Shobanjo, APPRENTICE AFRICA

INTRODUCTION

We live in an age where information and its application is a sine qua

non for placing an individual or institution on board above another. No

other era in history fits properly like now for the long age statement of

Francis Bacon that “Knowledge (information) is power” or in the words of

Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to

change the world’. Education in this sense could not have been

conventional classroom and note-taking approach; rather it boils down to

the acquisition of skills and knowledge (all information) necessarily in

tune with the lyrics (demands) of the 21st century.

No doubt, in this age, the conventional educational system requires

a holistic overhaul. Imagine a student reading to pass instead of

knowledge acquisition imagine a teacher less concerned about the

students’ capacity growth but more concern about a students recopying of

lecture notes in exams without additional flesh or deviation of thought.

What progress can that make? I mean how far? can a student go or impart
the immediate or global society, when he is advised to choose a course of

study based on prestige and fame, rather than on the problem he intends

to solve with his future profession. “Square pegs in round hole” you

may say, but we are all victims and we have all in one way or the other

contributed to this fall. By the fall, it is meant, emphasis on a ‘course of

study’ rather than a ‘cause for study’, quest for ‘certificates’ than a

‘certified mind’.

In Nigeria as a country and Africa as a continent in general, we can

all see crystal clear, complaints of a dearth of leadership and a paucity of

entrepreneurs. But the complain goes on and on in circles without any

substantially visible and practical approach to inculcating the values of

leadership and entrepreneurship in our education or environment. Some

have argued that students are taught this, but the same people admit it is

usually too late and it should have commenced earlier or, that it is

theoretically motivated without little breathing space for practical. In

addition some have opined that students, youths must learn the art of

leadership and entrepreneurship themselves. True/agree, but don’t they

deserve a better environment and encouragement from the educational

system and entire environment for the conscious and collective

development of these skills necessary to salvage our ailing nation and

continent from the doldrums of collapse and rigmarole of hijackers.

Imagine, even the media and entertainment platform have run parallel to

the values and ideals necessary to march Nigeria and Africa forward. This

is not far from truth.

Nigeria may claim to be the giant of Africa, although this assertion

is true in the light of my several experiences in my voyage to other African

countries such as Ghana, Cote d’Iviore, Togo and Benin. It is very

important that Nigeria gets things right in order to really serve as a big

brother and not what Yorubas call ‘Agbaya’{big for nothing} by placing its

priorities right, that is, conscious and well monitored and implemented

humanly friendly, educational environment for TRUE learning to build

LEADERS AND ENTREPRENEURS

Even though, we keep poor statistics, one may not need the

metaphysical service of a soothsayer to know unequivocally that

unemployment rate in Nigeria, in many other African countries as well as

the globe is on the geometric increase. Consequently, we as individuals

must consciously develop ourselves to suit the demands of the new trend,

not that government does not have its own place in doing this, in setting

the national blue prints, but this book centres on personal, individual

recognition of ‘who you are’ ,‘where you are as human’, and ‘what you
have to do’. Because only then can the people, be well positioned to

exercise their GOD given rights of expression to legitimately, demand for

what is theirs. Nemo dat quod non habeat a latin maxim which means ‘

you cannot give what you don’t have’.

In this era, where the educational system is ailing, where the

political system has failed, where quick fix approach and job mentality will

fail in the light of decreasing job opportunities, every individual needs the

plus factor, which transcend latent passion to the realm of consistent

determination in the midst of opposition. To build the leader or

entrepreneur it involves work, according to physicists in

thermodynamics, a gas is said to do work when it expands against

resistance.

This book addresses the fact that to expand against resistance, to

attain the pedestal of wealth creation and leadership, that is true money

and true power respectively one needs to develop people centred leaders

and value centred entreprenueral husler’s mentality, the heart that doesn’t

fail and legs that don’t go weary because the journey may be far but it is

near.
THE ARITHMETIC OF ATTITUDE

One may wonder, what can this mean? ‘Yes, it means all it means’, I

would say.

The usual position that a man’s attitude determines his altitude may

not only be a sound argument but may also be proven from the arithmetic

stand point.

Now, the 26 alphabets in the English Language shall be numbered

A for 1,

B for 2,

C for 3,

D for 4,

E for 5,…

I for 9,…

T for 20,

L for 21…

Z for 26,

ATTITUDE

The equals 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5, which is summed unequivocal

as 100.
 In percentage calculation, 100% is a whole circle, which means

perfection or everything.

From this, it is unambiguously clear that attitude is everything and

everything may be attitude. The French word for attitude is “attir” mean,

everything one needs to succeed in business, in career, in everything is

ATTITUDE, a whole attitude which concerns a whole belief system, a

whole desire, a whole emotion, a whole response to whatever one is set to

do. ATTITUDE may be described as an acronym for Action, Thought,

Tradition, Interest, Talk, Understanding, Description and Ego.

If it takes a whole attitude to achieve a whole result, then ask the

question quickly “have I being whole, positive about my Action, Thought,

Tradition, Interest, Talk, Understanding, Description, and Ego?”. If not,

then the time to change is now, because arithmetic has just proved to us

that your ATTITUDE is everything, not environment, not background, not

past failures, not past successes, not wealth, not religion, not… (whatever).

Although, these may mould your attitude in the subconscious, a conscious

effort must be made to extract all such factors from influencing

ATTITUDE. Because, all these factors cannot on their own stop you, they

only penetrate into your attitude, because they know you are the only one

that can stop yourself via ATTITUDE. For example, an injection content
cannot just work on the sick body and restore health because the sick

person sees the nurse or doctor holding it. No. As we know, it only works

when it is injected into the body and it mixes with the human blood and

unleashing on the system. Therefore, has the human immune system fights

diseases, so like a hustler physically struggle, hustler in the mind to fight

antibodies of your failures, past, background. As put forward by an

eminent psychologist.

“Attitudes are more important than facts, therefore be bold and

mighty forces will come to your aid”.

“Do the things you fear and the death of fear is certain”.

To further the arithmetic voyage embarked upon earlier, since the

assertion goes that ATTITUDE DETERMINES ALTITUDE, then arithmetic

calculation of ALTITUDE goes as thus (to authenticate the above

grammatical assertion).

The earlier process if followed, then A+L+T+I+T+T+U+D+E =

1+12+20+9+20+21+4+5= 92

Therefore ATTITUDE (100%) = ALTITUDE (92%)

Wow!!! No matter the altitude aimed, or height imagined, with the

right attitude, that is Action, Thought, Tradition, Interest, Talk,

Understanding, Description and Ego about the altitude, YES I CAN.

 Arithmetic, at least has helped resolve the truth that ATTITUDE

determines ALTITUDE more than 50% or did it say 70%, or 80%, or 90%?

No, I almost approximate 100%.

No wonder the warning “Guard your heart with all diligence for out

of it comes the issues of life”.

Henceforth, we all need to take a daily and consistent scrutiny on

out ATTITUDE or what do you think?

Dear Friend, as there a ding of this book continues in your fertile

mind, I plead ‘wear a positive, whole attitude, mentality, a mentality that

does not give up or take no for an answer. The mentality that is ready to

sacrifice all it takes (positively) to achieve positive result, I mean the

hustlers mentality’.
 CHAPTER TWO

‘What matters is not the life, but the boldness in it’

– Obafemi Awolowo

WHO ARE YOU?

One day a friend was asked this same question and enthusiastically

responding he said ‘I am’ so, so, so and so, mentioned his name, the fact

that he is a student and his course of study and crowned it with ‘I am a

finalist’. Well, one may say he is right, and a lot of people may have done

the same. The question ‘WHO AM I?’ elicits a myriad answers necessarily

summarized in my illustration below for the purpose of this book:

ASSUMPTION

If there exists Mr. A, B, C and D. Mr. A is the person who is to

define ‘WHO HE IS’, then assume further that Mr. B. is Mr. A’s experience

when he was a child and he has to stay with his father’s carpentry

workshop and attend to customers, Mr. B. may be Mr. A’s experience

when he became the youth community head in charge of a school building

project, Mr. C may be Mr. A’s experience when he had an opportunity to

study and acquire a degree in Chemistry in the higher institution, and

finally Mr. D. may be Mr. A’s experience as a consequence of attending a

seminar on investment or reading a book as this. Although these lists of

experience are inexhaustive. Mr. A’s experiences either acquired by

knowledge, rational or empirical, may be useful consciously or most often

unconsciously in the pool of resources and capacity needed for the

fulfillment of his entrepreneurial, leadership, etc. goals. For example from

Mr. A’s experience while he was a child attending to his father’s customers

in the furniture shop, he may have learnt unconsciously the art of

negotiation, the running of a furniture company, the art of human relations

and communication or even the art of creativity, that is making something

beautiful out of nothing. These lists though inexhaustive unequivocally

underscore the words of Albert Einstein “the tragedy of life is what dies

in a man while he lives”. In the course and cause of navigation with

GOD, the supernatural as your senior partner in progress via prayers and

faith, that is fact abiding in a trusting heart which spurs to action, which is

generally called boldness or the gut feeling of the risk taker, such skills

acquired in the course of life become relevant. It is then open to each

person to consciously tap into them maximally to add value build people

and create wealth.

EMPIRICAL
 This underscores practical illustrations of those acclaimed successful

in business, leadership, career, inter-alia: The essence of this section is to

drive emphatically the point that people’s experiences in life which

constitutes ‘who they are’ have being instrumental, consciously or

unconsciously in their later life’s achievement, as well such experience via

practice, information, inter-alia, where consciously acquired by some and

impliedly you too can be consciously equipped by choice and patience.

In my research, I discovered facts relating to this book about the

financial educator Robert Kiyosaki. He has this to say “While I am not a

great golfer, I have learned much about business and human nature while

on the golf course, my golf career began when I was eight year old”.

Also “after four years at the Marine Academy, I volunteered for the

Marine Corps… One of the most exciting parts of flight training was

learning how to fight aircraft to aircraft… I win in business today not

because I am smart of never failing. I win because, in my world, there is

no second place. After that day in the air … I realized that combat was

the ultimate test of war and training. There was no second place and the

winner was the one who was the most prepared. I changed my thoughts to

“combat is not risky. Being unprepared is risky”.

 Robert’s experience as a little child growing up was that of two

father’s ,his rich dad(his friend’s wealthy dad) and his real dad, a ‘teacher’.

The personality of the two dads combined made him a business mogul

and financial educator. According to him “My Rich Dad being a business

mogul taught me the financial numbers and the cashflow but my (Real)

Poor Dad, an educator but failed in business”.

This further became consolidated in the sagacious illustration Mrs.

Layi, the wife of a legal mentor, Babatude Layi SAN who I met on 31 st

March 2009. She narrated as thus: “Human may be likened to a machine

without manual or the blueprint for operation. It now takes learning,

observation or information to further lives course without regrets about

the past”. This blueprint may be acquired through our personal

involvement or that of others, through books or by inquiring what we

require from those who have acquired what we desire or the two father’s,

the Rich Dad and The Poor Dad of your experience, inter-alia

For Donald Trump, largest real estate developer in the world and

owner of more than 60 companies, in recounting how experiences shaped

his skills and influenced his later successes he has this to say: “Although I

was sent to military school because I was a bit aggressive as a kid, what I learned there

had less to do with discipline and channeling my energy more effectively than it had to
do with learning about the art of negotiation. It was a great business lesson in

disguise”.

President Barrack Obama in his book “Audacity of hope”

underscored the importance of his childhood experience, particularly his

late mother and grandmother’s empathy which came to bear on his

leadership perspective in feeling what others felt rather than being

judgmental.

As for Mahatma Gandhi of India and Martin Lurther King Jnr. of

the United States, their style of protest which was peaceful, but persistent

compared to that of Samurai X of the United States was discovered to have

been an orchestration of their various religious background, one allowed

for physical resistance while the other preached ‘passive resistance’. As

even Gandhi had this to say in his book “My experiments with truth” that

“a man of truth must also be a man of care”, a principle based Hindus

tenets.

Pastor Enoch Adeboye had this to say while ministering at the

International Camp “my knowledge of mathematics helps my analysis

even as a preacher”. This is evident in the mathematically orchestrated

division of the R.C.C.G. in strategic numbers spread across the nooks and
crannies, particularly on almost every street. A colossal accomplishment of

reflecting dexterous analysis indeed!!!

To mention a few, inter-alia, my own experience may be summarized as

thus: “my years of childhood business and difficult exposure due to

circumstances of survival in the face of tears have built in me a resilience

and tenacity of hope and a believe in God that He I can never fail and

because God can’t I can’t”. Friend, what can you say or do you intend to

say about your experiences as a molder of your skills and capacities? Or is

it that your are worrying about your past or your background forgetting

that your background does not put your back on the ground neither can

your past, unless you allow it. So pick up and press on, and then press on

in the right direction of experience and information and you have no

choice but to be picked up as the sun and not just a star.

BRIDGING THE GAP WIDE

Today, it dawns clearly more than ever, that what I want in life is up

to me. There is no one way in life, if one want something; desire is not

enough. One needs to do what it takes and acquire what is needed to be a

winner before winning. Echo to yourself the fact that ‘there is a vivid realm

of distinction between expecting to be a winner and actually being a

winner? It does take the hustler’s mentality, not within the framework of
illegality, but an inner resistance and consistence of practice which flows

from your thoughts through your actions, consequently culminating into

results. That is why the heart must be guarded with all diligence, because a

controlled thought produces sporadically controlled results, that is,

whatever is sown shall be reaped.

Practice which is synonymous to preparation automatically bridges

the yearning gap between one’s future and the present.

Aristotle has this to say “we are what we repeatedly do”. Excellence

then is not an act, but a habit. However, individuals prepare in various

ways. What works for an individual may not function for another. Some

require a colossal degree of fear, some wait until the last minute then

employ fire – brigade approach while some prepare by reducing or

eradicating all distractions, have complete silence and shut themselves off

from the complete world, some prepare with lyrics, others need to

rehearse until confident. However, the methodology doesn’t count as

much as the desire for optimal success. This brings to fore the Greek

saying of “know thyself”. Many have missed it in pursuit of adapting to

someone else’s methodology, because it defeats the God given uniqueness

and ingenuity of mankind. The best one can be is one’s self and not

someone else, as evidence, painstakingly search through the life of great

men in human history. As fact, this raises a direct confrontation on the

conservative educational approach where students of higher institution are

advised to copy notes for hours in the classroom, which is pasted in the

examination papers when asked examination questions, what students call

‘la cram, la pour’. I think that the higher institutions, particularly the

universities need to compulsorily change such an approach and further

compulsory, conscious and determined curriculum in these institutions

involving contribution and discussion in lecture to fit the demands of the

town, the community, rather than run parallel to it in terms of training

students without the hustler’s mentality, the intuitive mindset, the

mentality of a self-starter.

However, many opine that students having recognized this lacunae

in the educational system should further take their destiny into the hands,

that is wear the hustler’s mentality in tapping consciously into

opportunities that would enhance their skills for the future they visualize

ahead, rather than live other people’s dreams. The saying goes when the

desirable is not available, the available becomes the desirable, it is

important to create one’s environment to suit ones desirability. For

example, a person may adorn his apartment with quotes or pictures of

great men, even in the midst, of hopelessness in the society, by so doing,

you have just for example, succeeded in creating your own world which

would later become your own realities and manifestation for as a man

thinketh so he is. In addition to preparation, focus follows. In focusing,

you only FOLLOW ONE COURSE UNTIL SUCCESSFUL.…

In the words of Joe Montana, one of the greatest footballers in

history;”Everyone who has been successful in his or her chosen field

understands the importance of practice and preparation. To become

outstanding in a particular area, we must learn to practice with

concentration and focus. Practice is our chance to work on weaknesses

and get better when we are working to excel in something, it is not enough

to do what is expected. … Nor should we keep starting and stopping a

practice regimen. When we practice we must be consistent”.

Focus is not monotony of task, No. it only means dissipating energy

towards a major goal or goals. Saddening, a lot of individuals focus on or

divide their focus with minor and expect a major result. For example, a lot

of people, particularly men spend their major time watching football

everyday, when they are convinced they would never turn out to major in

football or become coaches. Not that football isn’t OK, No. A s a fact, a lot

to learn in it.But, Imagine, spending a lot of one’s time everyday doing

minors, because the truth is your can never be asked “how young are you”
but “how old are you” which depicts the need to make hay while the sun

shines. In fact, friend, when you major in ‘minor’, you turn out being a

minor in your own major. God forbid! one may say, but as the earth

remains seed time and harvest cannot cease.

 CHAPTER THREE

LEADERSHIP

‘Piling up degrees or passing examinations mean nothing unless Africans

are creative. A textbook on African medicine is not impossible. But the

truth is the African ‘scholar’ is lazy

–Nnamdi Azikiwe

‘A nation needs great leadership at critical moments of her history. For

example ‘when America needed a constitution, she had Thomas Jefferson,

when she had a civil war she was lucky to have a President Abraham

Lincoln, when the Great Depression hit the US, she was lucky to have

President Roosevelt; in the face of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the threat

of nuclear holocaust, the United States had a President John F. Kennedy.

Nigeria must begin to produce the right leadership at particular moments

of her history. It is the one of the major paths to national glory’

- ‘Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his visit to The University of Ibadan’

DIAGNOSIS

We all know that the problem of leadership is a recurrent one in

Africa, more emphasis on Nigeria. More pitiable is the fact that youths

who have been tagged “future leaders of tomorrow” have not being

consciously armed for this clarion call for true, people centred leadership.
Most unnecessary is the present lavish trend of many Nigerian companies

towards supporting programmes that add little or no value to developing

true leaders or vanguarding the emancipation of the country from her

leadership quagmire. Imagine, companies spending millions on dance

competitions, musical tour round campus etc. The opinion is that these

things are not wrong in themselves; the only issue is the excessive

duplication of such events with little or no tangible support towards

human capability building, particularly in the most pressing problem,

leadership, particularly political leadership. A rethink is needed. What do

you think?

Well, for the Hustler, who seeks to develop skills leadership he sees

the problems ignores them and persistently develops toward attaining the

set goals. The brief highlighting of few out of many problems bedeviling

the nation in areas of leadership, is not to criticize but primarily drive

home in our mind, the fact that merely sitting down in classroom or

lecture halls and going back to the hostel or going from work to home,

without conscious effort at developing the communication, analytical,

listening, empathetic etc skills of a leader in this era or in that to come will

only spell doom for such a candidate. “Real learning is self learning” I

write.
 It can be observed that great leaders were not just position holders,

but most importantly, where people centred leaders who seek to provide

sincere solutions to challenges confronting the people which earns them

the reputation ‘great’. Note this fact by an Eminent Professor of Law,

Professor Anifalaje “skillful sailors make their names in the midst of

tempest and storms” so are great leaders. If one wants to be a great leader

then don’t just sit, step up, dust your past and take up the task of being

your own teacher and instructor.

THE {+} PLUS FACTOR IN A MINUS {– } ENVIRONMENT

The environment may not be conducive for the fertilization of your

ideas, then a plus factor, an extra mile in a negative environment is a sine

quo non. There exists practically no real environment, what exists is the

subjective creation of yourself, by yourself and for yourself. In considering

the issue of leadership in a minus environment, the following points must

be established:

a. Leadership in my conviction is primarily about adding value.

How can one give what one does not have to the people he is

serving? Obviously Not. Then it behooves on whosoever desires

leadership to develop himself consciously with the right

information necessary for the kind of leadership, anticipation

 political or managerial. Without perfidy, the fact that the

environment, does not seem suitable for building leaders may

not be completely true, considering the fact that various

‘opportunities’ exist in all settings for practically developing

oneself, only that such may be at the expense of something say

academic performance for a student for example in a higher

institution, which you may choose to and possess the capacity to

balance. But the fact remains, that if all persons would assume

leadership, that is possess influence, over a set group at one time

or the other, maybe as a husband, wife, parent to say the least,

then a conscious effort at acquiring leadership skills via

participation and information is non-negotiable even if it would

involve sacrifice.

Therefore, there is need to challenge the traditional approach of

coming to school and focusing squarely on academic books,

because it is skills that set a person aside, look through great men

in history and see. It is therefore very important to study books

not only to pass but also to consciously develop inner-most skills.

b. The words of Aristotle instructs thus: “He who has never learnt

to obey can never be a good commander” close your eyes and sail
 through the width, depth and height of Aristotle’s words, then

ask “how does this apply to me and how can I make amends or

tap into the wisdom of these words for my future etc? Inferences

from (a) and (b) indicates that leadership is not an act but an art,

it is not a gift, it is must be learnt and earned.

c. To build leadership skills, major in your major because when you

major in your minor, you end up becoming a minor in your

major. Illustrating this, assuming a runner is on a race to National

Stadium, can he be said to have won on arrival at Unilag Stadium

instead of National Stadium, obviously not. Also a person whose

set destination or future intention is neither that of a coach,

footballer nor a club owner, but takes pleasure in watching

football everyday and everytime may end up failing in the set

destination, thus he has majored in his minor and later becomes a

minor in his major. Of a truth you cannot serve God and

Mammon, service is dedication, then why dedicate your precious

time on irrelevances. I am not saying having fun with football

isn’t good like I emphasized in the earlier chapter, but it must be

taken with caution and less dedication.This is why this example

was emphasized again and again. Ironically, this same scenario

occurs in many of the activities we do which runs parallel to our

desires for the future,!even ignorantly. For example a student

was once asked “what is your future ambition?” and in

answering ‘a manager and Chief Executive Governor’ he said.

But this same student while in school throughout was always

shying away from anything that would take him away from his

academic curriculum in the guise of good grades. For example,

he hardly talks to others or asks question in class, when advised

to join an organization, he runs , claiming to be busy. Throughout

school, no leadership engagement, no interest in personal

development, no conscious engagement in public speaking and

team work, always to himself, then not mincing words the dream

of my friend is nothing but an illusion, except he changes by

practice ,although he had lost a great opportunity in school, if not

I repeat ‘a mere illusion’. This may sound funny, but a lot of

individuals act this way, sometimes unconsciously because over

the years on earth, it has been programmed in the mind that ‘I

must acquire good grades alone to acquire good jobs’. But the

truth is where are the jobs themselves? and the truth again is

involving in self developmental processes does not stop one from

 having good grades, or does it? Then, it is only laziness

consciously or unconsciously scripted that is at work. In the

information age, to attain power or wealth, as all desire, at least

some for the good of humanity or for evil desires, a person must

transcend the conventional mentality of book and book, cram

and discharge, but must seek for true knowledge in one’s field of

study coupled with the development of the practical know how

of leadership. Even Albert Einstein, the great scientist confirmed

this when he said “Beware of the intellect, it has powerful

muscles but lacks personality, it can only serve, it cannot lead’.

Be not deceived whatever a man sows he shall reap. “Sow into

knowledge and not only ‘examination grades’ and you shall reap

the harvest of skills”.

Considering the Nigerian situation, little wonder we complain of

inefficiency in government and deficiency of leaders, it is opined that the

years of mediocrity in the appointment, selection of leaders in the nation at

the expense of merit in all nooks and crannies, had contributed actively to

the inefficiency experienced by Nigerians. That is why this book exists, for

the sake of building leaders or leaders building themselves at a sacrifice,

that is with a hustler’s mentality, a mentality that never gives up in other

to occupy the vacuum of leadership properly so called. “As leaders are not

born, they are made”, the era of selective politics and mediocre

appointment must end if we want inefficiency in the Nation to end. The

truth is in Nigeria, in Africa, there are many challenges, even in the world

at large, we therefore need more leaders, instead of followers, I mean

responsibility carriers. “The best way to find yourself it is to loose

yourself in the service of others” says Mahatma Gandhi. For everybody

can be great if everybody can serve.

d. Leaders are role models and they build up on other role models.

The fact remains if your want to know who are person is likely to

be then ask for his/her role models. Isn’t it true that a lot of

people carry in the minds a role model out of emotions contrary

to the reasonable projection of their future? For example, paying

lip service to being a pilot, but celebrates solely, musicians in

his/her heart with emotionally attachment.

This psychological trend is disastrous, because, “when the heart

is the driver and the brain is the passenger, accident is

inevitable”, I tell myself. I personally employ the strategy of

pasting around my room quotes and pictures of admirable

achievers. But I do remember telling myself “these achievers in

 my own light (different from yours, based on each individuals set

goal) were only shadow of greater things to come, which is me in

their future and now in the present”.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF

In my leadership experiences, particularly as Chairman of Nnamdi

Azikiwe Hall, University of Ibadan, I discovered leaders had to be role

models in speech, smiles and conduct and I also discovered it must be

learnt and earned too. As Robert Kiyosaki puts it “True leaders inspire us

to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing”.

To be a role model, I discovered one must be willing to let go. Like a

Nigerian musician sang ‘nobody wan pa ain, but dey wan go heaven’ that

is “Everybody wants to got to heaven, but no one wants to die”. To

become the leader, a responsibility taker, then the irresponsibility inside us

must die. The truth is ‘I really must go beyond the old me and seek a new

life few people experience’.

The clarion call is now, for one to see what others do not see, there is

need for a vision, a vision practical and imbibed for the future via the lens

available in the present, the lens of practical realities and engagement.

 This is the time for us as Nigerians and Africans to reconsider our

ways, the ways of nonchalance over others plight, forgetting that what

goes around comes around. This is not a time for our passion for a better

Nation and Continent to fail, though we have cause to, but if we don’t who

will? This is why we were born, to consciously develop and deliver for the

good of humanity. A thought to consider from Winston Churchill:

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we

give”. Martin L. King Jnr. has this to say as well, ‘you don’t need to have a

college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb

agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace’. You must choose to be

the Nigerian heart full of grace. Let us share and serve with passion and

properly channeled energy and our world would be better for it. Look at

mother Theresa, what of our celebrated African leader, Nelson Mandela, to

mention a few, celebrated after they have or might have left the earth. Do

you want to be a celebrated African leader? Do you want to be celebrated

rather than being relegated? The choice is here now! A transformed life is a

transformed thought, a transformed action results, then productivity. For

‘’as a man thinketh, so he is”.

e. Plato has this to say “the first and best victory is to conquer self.

To be conquered by self is of all things, the most shameful and

vile”. “He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that

is broken down, and without walls” the wisest King Solomon

emphasized in Proverbs 25:28. It is often a great surprise when

we discover that must of the ugliness we see in others, is but a

reflection of our own nature. We keep criticizing the government,

good, but most often we may fail to realize we engage in same

things we criticize in our own little way. No wonder Jesus said in

Mathew 7:7 ‘’Judge not that ye be not judged’’.

In relation to knowledge, real learning is self learning, we must

stop relying solely on what we are taught, some may be right and

many wrong. Be taught, but see the world from your own eyes,

analyze. We must stop being spoon fed always if a change must

occur in our lives, in our world, in Africa and even in our nation

Nigeria. If your aim in life is to be fulfilled, then why let the

world brainwash with their ideals. Know thyself. The fact

remains in this age, is not everything that is taught that one must

learn. It begins with each individual; because Nigeria, Africa is

never the walls or building or the trees, it is you and I with the

choice to make a difference with ourselves first, then others

second, irrespective of the environmental circumstance.

 It is not the environment. A lot of individuals claim, well there is

corruption in the country” and so you must be corrupt to make it,

forgetting the fact lasting promotion comes not from man but from GOD.

Aside this fact, in every person exists the capacity to create his own world,

his own environment, his own realities, as Protagoras puts it “man is the

measure of all things, of things that are that they are, of things that are

not, they are not’’. In fact, man has capacities in him to explore in all

circumstance, this may be likened to what I call ‘adrenalin strength’. For

instance, a friend who hates running and complains that I walked fast,

when approached by thieves ran like no man’s business and even flew a

tall fence. Wow! Surprising, but where was the strength earlier? The deep

truth is that it was within him as it is within you to boast your adrenalin,

your passion in creating your own environment, world and realities. God

is a perfect God and sincerely without perfidy he has given us all we need.

You may say the ‘brain’. Maybe or maybe much more, just explore within,

although, the level of passion in one needed to succeed in one

environment may differ in relative terms based on opportunity, that still

does not mean you cannot succeed anyway.

 CHAPTER THREE

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

“We are all born rich. We all have been given the most powerful lever on

earth, our minds…so use your mind for leverage to make you rich rather

than to make excuses” – Robert Kiyosaki

To start with, if you don’t need money then please don’t read,

further. Then of a truth everybody needs money. The various advantages

of money cannot be delved into now, however, the particular emphasis of

this chapter centres on the mindset about money and the fact that money

and entrepreneurship are mutually inexclusive, but the point of

intersection is primarily on two points: the mindset and skills.

Money is not the paper we carry, it is a mindset developer, which

spurs action, then results. This may be common sense, but commonsense I

have discovered in my study is not too common a sense. Secondly, the

difference between nonsense and sense is equal to ‘non’.

NON{SENSE} – SENSE = NON

THE MINDSET

This would be addressed specifically in the next chapter, however,

the emphasis here is pivoted on the faulty foundation on money which a

lot of us have built super structures of actions on, thereby culminating into
unproductive results that have inspired others negatively like wild fire.

The truth is money is a value, not the acquisition of the paper. Even this

days, little children know that 10 Naira is not the same as 1000 Naira paper

note. Why? It is simply the value attached, to it, its purchasing power

based on collective perception. Therefore, really rich people whose wealth

are enduring, not rich quick and gone quick wealth , add one or more

value to the world by identifying a need for example, my research on the

top 10 richest men in 2008 proved that these men not only learnt that art of

entrepreneurship but also added value to their world. Bill Gates is known

for computers, Warren Buffet for stocks and company acquisition that

satisfy the wants and need of the human race, Carlos Slim Helu for

telecommunication, Mittal for stell, Mukesh Ambani for oil and textile, and

his brother,next to him in ranking for communications, Ingvar Kamprad

for furniture, inter-alia. It is observed that the more the value you add

appeals to generality or future needs, the way and methodology adopted

through which the value reaches those in need of them, determines the

height and width of flowing wealth. To continue being wealthy, you must

continue adding value, both to yourself as a professional or person as well

as to the world in which you live. The saying goes, “If opportunities

cannot find you, shake off and find one”. This is the real hustler’s
mentality towards money.

AN ENTREPRENEUR

Truly, the definition of an entrepreneur is simply one who adds

value and out of value creates wealth for himself and others. However, an

entrepreneur is not born they are made through learning. Just like

President Obama said “greatness is not a given (gift), it must be earned’’.

Also entrepreneurship is not a given (gift), it must be earned. It is quite

perplexing to hear some say ’’I want to be Chief Executive Officer’’ or ‘’I

may own my business’’ and when they should tap into the available

opportunities to build the entrepreneurial skills, they do other things

contrary. Even ignorantly a lot of people in the pursuit of such goals

ignore engaging themselves in practical business for their own, where they

could make mistakes and learn, instead of making such mistakes at the

higher ladder of attainment. Or even involve themselves in marketing or

salesmanship where they can acquire some of the skills needed for an

entrepreneur. A lot in ignoring such still do not study books that expose

their minds to the successes and failures of those who had already gone

ahead of them, they prefer most often running away from the hustler’s
path, we seek green pastures in acquiring much certificates rather than a

practical and certified mind fit for the job and task ahead.

For example the yearly Apprentice Reality Show by Donald Trump,

where he selects 18 applicants some with only high school education

equivalent to secondary school but running their business, some with

degrees only and some with good degrees (even M.B.A.) with an

additionally experience in either the business world or in their own

venture has a lot to teach about entrepreneurship.

Each week, when the applicants are given a business task to

undertake the failed team comes to the bedroom where one person gets

fired, until the end of the 18th week, where a winner emerges. The lessons

to deduce are:

i. The people with so much degrees, but with little or no business

experience or exploit get fired quickly at the early weeks.

ii. The people with little or no degree but with business experience

are usually the second people to be fired from the Apprentice

program.

iii. The people with degree but coupled with some business

experience or running their own venture, yearly win or emerge at

the last stage.

 This is surprising, but true. You are advised to purchase from season

one to the present season, each season is a new set of applicants yearly.

There is no gain saying the fact that certificates without the juice of

information within the acquirer is only useless and a disaster. With this

mentality a lot of examination malpractices around students; cheating in

exams, some parents aiding such vice, would cease. As a container without

content is useless, so is a certificate without a certified mind wasteful.It

may take the person up the ladder averagely, but by all laws of nature,

sowing, reaping etc. such a person cannot go far. Like Francis Bacon said

”knowledge is power”. The question goes; “Have I being seeking the kind

of knowledge I need for what is before me?”.

KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge may be likened to a round peg in round hole that is,

information suitable for the individual’s use to activate productivity in any

regard. Information may be acquired either by experience or reasoning, to

say the least. However, it is a fact that in life, experiences may be one’s

personal encounter or that of another, maybe acquired through study from

writings, speech etc.

 Furthermore, to be an entrepreneur, that is adding value, creating

wealth, shying away from acquiring needful information whether

by reasoning or experience, is fatal. No excuse is good enough,

“never despise humble beginning”, because it is discovered that

such beginnings may not or may be your greatness. In that humble

beginning in business, investing etc. may lie the acquisition of the

skills needed for really big task. David was rearing sheep, but the

skills developed from that experience catapulted him to the palace,

where he oversee humans, at least in rearing sheep he would have

learnt a lot.

Assignment

Take you pen, identify activities, engaged in and visualize how such

can be used to better your skills and if not, maybe consider letting go with

them and pick up new activities.

TWO SIDES TO A COIN

Whatever you think, think the opposite. There are indeed two sides to life.

Our educational system has conditioned us to seek for right answers, but

many fail to search for alternative answers or solutions once the first right

answer has been discovered. Don,t you think it’s time to breakaway. In the
business world and even in the realm of investment, the two sides are

profit and loss. The fact is the dividing line between this two extremes are

right information, information and then application, of such to the

situation at hand would do. For example, if I want to cross the road, the

information comes into my inner ears, “look right, look left” then I apply it

and cross if safe to”. Therefore, in other not to be hit by the vehicle of loss,

this simple common sense applies. My usual advise to ‘prospective

investors’, even at symposia, is always pivoted on the 2Es of investment,

Education and Experience through practical investment in stocks and in

investment books.

I am frequently asked, “what kind of business can one do?” or “is

investing in stock good particularly at this bearish (falling) moments of

stock prices?”. But the fact is nobody can tell what kind of business to do

successfully, my reply usually is “You need conviction about what you are

into, it begins with you, I can only advise on ‘how’ but not ‘what’,as a

matter of principle. On the question of investment “it all boils down to

how committed one is to improving one’s investment skills”. The truth is,

investing is not bad or good, it is the investor that is either bad or good at

the art of investing. Like Robert Kiyosaki says “There is no such thing as a

bad investment, but there sure are a lot of bad investors”. The same
applies to politics, “it is not politics that is bad, it is the caliber of people in

it that makes it bad”.

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

With the present trend in the world, the realities people have created

for themselves through thoughts draw them unconsciously away from

much more important things. Such important things left undone turn into

urgent matters, with the result of myriads of catastrophe and regrets

following. Are you spending enough time in your most important

personal relationships, such as family, friends and mentors? If not who

and what is taking up all the time? It’s time for parents to order their

priorities and for potential parents to programme right priorities. Let us

protect our time with the most important people in our lives, to create a

better family and a then a better nation and a better world. Beware of

prioritizing money, job, career etc on the top list, it may backfire.

EDUCATION DEFINED

A lot of individuals when interviewed on why they are schooling

paint a picture in their answers that suggest expectation of pay for what

they know instead of what they do with that which they know. From the

history of great leaders or entrepreneurs, I have discovered that the world

does not pay or respect people for that which they “know” or “claim” to

know”. It pays or respect what they do or influence others to do.

This has led me to conclude that indeed, “any person who is

educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without

violating the rights and decency of others. Education consists, not so

much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied.

Men are paid not merely for what they know, but more importantly for

what they do with what they know’’.

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

Entrepreneurs succeed on systems, that is the structure and people

that provide the entrepreneur’s value; product or idea, to the final

consumers, directly or indirectly.

No single person has sufficient experience education capability,

knowledge or intellect to assure, ensure and insure the gathering of

colossal wealth, money, power without the cooperation of other people.

Even the creator of the earth delegated duties to angels and made man

responsible over the earth. Then, we must learn from divinity, even as

humanity.
 CHAPTER FIVE

BELIEVE SYSTEM

“Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go far, but

faith has no limit? – Blaise Pascal

THE RETICULAR ACTIVATING SYSTEM (RAS).

The human brain is said to have the capacity to take in 8 million or

more bytes of information, however, not all that comes in is absolved by

the brain. The RAS will shiver the wheat from the chaff, that is, allow the

brain absolve only those information in line with the believe system. In

other words, the RAS, consults the believe system, and a person’s believe

system determine their depth of conviction and the amount of energy

exerted. Therefore, it is important to consider one’s believes regularly,

because this may determine the opportunities one sees, since opportunities

come in the form of information most times.

To consider your believe system so you do not limit yourself by

your thoughts and therefore loss your opportunities, I recommend you

locate quickly your premium time, place, race and style.

 Premium time

‘When’ you think best, your ‘thought peak’. Is it at night or early in

the morning like myself? Set out a time at your premium peak to meditate

on your inner self and believe system. Not every person has same

premium time and that is why two friends may have to avoid things

together in other not to operate in another’s timing. Socrates said “know

thyself”.

Premium place

‘Where’ you think best; it may be solitary or in the midst of people,

in silence or in music etc.

Premium race

‘Who’ you need around you. Be not deceived evil association

corrupts good thought and over time creates an impressed belief system,

though based on the emotional muscle of the person involved. Peer

pressure and association have created some conscious or unconscious

pattern of thought in many people. There is need for conscious

reconditioning, as well as departure from friends who add no value to

your vision or whose values run contrary and parallel to yours. It is your

choice, whichever. If you choose to, why not now?

 Premium style

This concerns the question “How do I learn’. It is an issue of

approach and methodology for thinking. Identify your premium

style and take charge of your destiny, your thought pattern

consciously. I often tell people at symposia “don’t employ your

generative and evaluative thinking at the same time”.

GENERATIVE AND EVALUATIVE THINKING

The generative thinking is such that you allow your thoughts to

scout for new ideas and flow in these ideas. At such a stage of thought, the

advice I give is “just take out your pen and paper’ write all the ideas

foolish or wise, and keep writing until it stops flowing like a stream.

The evaluative thinking critically and analytically scrutinizes the

ideas to see which is suitable for implementation or aligns with reality and

how such can be executed. Employing this stage when generating ideas is

precarious to creativity. This is because the germinal phase is governed by

a different kind of logic which could be best described as metaphorical,

fantastic, diffuse, elliptical and ambiguous. Therefore, for creative ideas, I

prescribe a good dose of soft thinking in the germinal phase (generative)

and a hearty helping of hard thinking in the practical phase (evaluative).

Secondly, in figures of speech and in everyday life, sincerely, the

‘metaphor’ is an excellent tool to help you think something different.

Think of yourself as a poet, and look for similarities around you. If you

have a problem finding, try to make a metaphor of it. This strategy is

extremely useful, in career, leadership, entrepreneurship etc.

Assignment

Close your eyes and search in your heart what you intend for

yourself, your business, your career, your family etc. Then look for

someone similar to what you intend and then in your heart say “I am (the

name of the person)” e.g. I am the Albeit Einstein in my time. What

psychological effect do you experience? Do it over and over again with

depth. With this method, you can boast your creativity even in areas

outside your field. This principle was applied in the movie “Catch me if

you can”. Secondly, pay attention to the metaphors you use in your own

thinking. The third of metaphors one uses may elevate or impress

consciously or unconsciously. Beware!!!

CREATIVITY PERSONIFIED

RULES SYNDROME

Creative thinking is not only constructive, it is as well destructive.

You often have to break out of one pattern to discover another pattern.
This is simply ‘thinking outside the box’. In doing this, play the

revolutionary and challenge the rules, particularly the ones you use to

govern your daily activities. However, be careful because playing the

revolutionary also has it dangers. Secondly, periodically scrutinize your

ideas to see if they are contributing to your thinking effectiveness.

When searching for ideas, take advantage of the ambiguity, the

unanswered question, in the world. This is how great scientist made

discoveries from the law of gravity to the law of aerodynamics. Look at

something and think about what use it might be. If you are giving

someone a problem that has the potential of being solved in a creative

way, then try at least initially posing it in an ambiguous fashion so their

imagination is not restricted within rules. You may as well cultivate your

own personal sources of ambiguity, these could be books, things etc, that

force you to look for more than one meaning. For example, it is not out of

place for an art student or a lawyer to read books on geography, science,

mathematics etc to develop the brain.

DON’T MAKE MISTAKES SYNDROME

There are situations where errors are inappropriate, but the

germinal phase of the creative process isn’t one of them. Like Michael
Faraday said when trying to invent electricity. “I have not failed, I only

discovered 999 ways of how not to create electricity.”Can’t you remember

Abraham Lincoln? Thereafter, if you make an error, use it as a stepping

stone to new ideas you might not had otherwise been discovered. If you

are not making errors, you might ask yourself, “How many opportunities

am I missing by not being more aggressive”. In addition, every individual

need to strengthen their risk muscles in all facets. Like the human muscle,

everyone has the risk muscle, but it must be exercised or else, it will

atrophy. Make it a duty to take at least one risk every twenty four hours in

any area of desired development, that is go an extra mile. Remember,

friend, if you fail, you learn what doesn’t work and secondly, the failure

gives you an opportunity to try a new approach so fear not failure, only

strive to succeed.

PLAYING IS A WASTE OF TIME SYNDROME

“If necessity is the mother of invention, then play is the father”. The

truth is our educational system is getting extremely serious by the day,

and this problem must be addressed to enhance innovative minds in all

fields of study. The next time, there is a problem, play with it as well make

a work place, school, home etc, a fun place to create your own suitable

environment.
THAT IS NOT MY AREA SYNDROME

Specialization is a fact of life, that is, in order to function in the world, one

must narrow ones focus and limit the field of view. However, when trying

to generate new ideas, such information handling attitudes can limit.

Edison’s advice becomes instructive:

“Make it a habit to keep on the look out for novel and interesting

ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only

in its adaptation to the problem you are working on”

Here are some tips that will help improve one’s hunting abilities:

i. Develop the hunter’s attitude that is, ‘’wherever I go there are ideas

waiting to be hunted”

ii. Don’t get so busy that you lose the free time necessary for idea

hunting.The way forward is “I schedule my hunting time into my

daily and weekly activities, even side excursions may be sufficient.

iii. Develop the liberal mind approach. Be open minded to wider and

diversified knowledge acquisition. ’’The Liberal soul shall be made

fat’’

iv. Look for analogous situations, that is, problems similar to yours that

has been solved in other areas.

v. Write down your hunted ideas before they fly away like a bird from

its cage.

DON’T BE FOOLISH SYNDROME

Like,I said earlier, the difference between non-sense and sense

equals non. It is difficult, however, to be objective if you have an ego tied

up in your idea, as such you do not want to be criticized for having

produced a “foolish idea”. Like Neils Bolir said “There are some things

that are so serious you have to laugh at them”. Take no offence and

occasionally let the part of the brain that says ‘stupid idea’ be downplayed

by the foolish idea, and see what crazy ideas you can originate. In this

light, I pray, may your foolish idea become your polished idea for

unleashing the release of relief on our world

EQUILIBRIUM

The worlds of thought and action some have discovered,

overlap,that what you think has a way of becoming true.

Thoughts
Results

Action
Therefore thoughts and action produces result, however the thought

provides the foundation for the superstructure of action, finally covered by

the roof of results. Doesn’t all starts from the thoughts? So think and try

new things and build what you thought especially the small ideas. The

creative person in you must have the self-faith that these ideas will lead

somewhere through actions.

 CHAPTER SIX

A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES

I bargained with life for a penny,

And life would pay no more,

However I begged at evening

When I counted by scanty store.

“For life is a just employer,

He gives you what you ask, But

Once you have set the wages,

Why, you must bear the task

“I worked for a menial’s hire

Only to learn, dismayed, that any

Wage I had asked of life,

Life would have willingly paid”.

A NEED FOR CHANGE

There exists a whole world of opportunities for leaders and

entrepreneurs in the information and communication age. It all boils down

to skills; skills acquired, skills developed, skills utilized. For Nigerians and

Africans alike, we must thank God we were born at a time like this, a time

when the nation, the continent is fraught with myriads of problems from

leadership to poverty, from to corruption to joblessness, a time when we

can take on this problems, and see them through the eyes of opportunities

to add value, build people, create wealth, as well as make our names

sealed in the sands of time. Because opportunities are usually hidden in

problems, in needs.

Consequently, at this time of needs for our nation and continent isn’t

it time to build the necessary skills? moral skills, entrepreneurship skills,

leadership skills, patriotism and team spirit skills etc. To solve the needs of

our time and make our marks. ‘Skillful’ sailors make their names in the

midst of tempest and storm”, remember.

LEADERS

In areas of leadership, new opportunities exists in fields of politics,

banking, industry, religion, even in professions such as Engineering,

Information and Communication Technology, Journalism, Medicine,

Education, Law , Science, among others. As put forward in the field of

education “…must find ways and means of teaching people how to apply

the knowledge they receive in school…” as well as provide information on

areas not covered by formal education or school, “ must deal more with

practice and less with theory”. In addition, no matter the career of choice,

the truth is, a plus factor is needed in areas and knowledge of information

technology, foreign language etc, to chart a new cause of leadership in

one’s field of study in this global village, because one must not think or act

local, but as a global champion. That is where you deserve to be friend.

ENTREPRENEURS

For an entrepreneur, ‘opportunities’ to create wealth is his watch

word. In life opportunities abound for an entrepreneur in areas of food,

clothing, shelter, needs to start with, that is a sine qua non. However, in

recent times, the vast opportunities to create wealth is innumerable, in

areas of Information Technology, health, relationship, education,

technology (Electricity, energy, communication, transportation, security,

finance, beauty, entertainment, value system, investment etc. however, the

fact remains that they all boil down to possessing entrepreneurial skills

which must be consciously acquired. Every time, I remember the words of

John D. Rock feller, I say those words again to myself again and again. It

goes “what a young man needs as he grows is the acquisition of skills and

reputation” to build wealth immeasurable for himself. Some say “well you

need much money to start up something”. Although, this may be true, it is

much of a truth that money does not multiply itself or does it? Isn’t it the

proper utilization of the money that produces money? Is that not skill first

and foremost? If the truth is that money as defined by economist is the

value of currency? Then the consistent possession of that value over a

period of time is what can be termed wealth. It means to be wealthy you

must apply skills to consistent production of that value called money. Isn’t

that so?

BYE! BYE!!

The world awaits the manifestation of men and woman who can

catch on the opportunities, the problems around them to add value, build

people and create wealth. In my experience as I toured through other West

African countries!such as Ghana, Benin, Cote d’ivoire and even Togo, I

discovered the relevance of the Nigerian nation (with over 40 million

people) in the African continent. Opportunities abound in Africa

unexplored, agricultural opportunities, information and communication

technology opportunities, leadership opportunities etc, opportunities that

have being tapped into in Asia, Europe, America but still left untapped in

the nation and in our continent. This made me resolve that “As I see the

problems, I must see the opportunities”, which revolves around skills,

mentally, emotionally, psychologically and even spiritually. Because one

must develop the skills of thanksgiving and acknowledgement of the

supernatural, I strongly opine. Friends, it is time we as Nigerians and as

great Africans arise to the true realities of our time the time must come

when Nigerian books, Nigerian products and companies, Nigerian

scholars, Nigerian businessmen, Nigerian leaders etc impart Africa and the

entire globe. The time has come to put away childish things, and embrace

truth. The time has come to become that hero the world is waiting for.

Don’t procrastinate, the time is now. Develop yourself and your Godly

relationship.

See you on top globally and thanks for reading.

With love from,

TIMI OLAGUNJU,
AUTHOR
7th April, 2009
 AUTHOR’S PROFILE

AUTHOR’S PROFILE

Mr. Timi Olagunju (LL.B) finals, University of Ibadan, a community

developer and speaker with the mandate to add value and build youths in
areas of leadership and entrepreneurship. Recently, he was a youth
delegate to the Model United Nations Conference in Abuja on ’Climate
change’ in 2008. Mr. Timi Olagunju’s profile in areas of leadership and
entrepreneurship include:
PRESENT ENTREPRENEURAL/LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION
PIONEERED
• Overseer, Image Nigeria/Africa Project.
PAST LEADERSHIP EXPLOITS (WHILE IN SCHOOL), AMONGST
OTHERS
• Ag. Library Prefect, St. Finbarr’s College, Akoka, Lagos – 2001
• Vice-President, Literary and Debating Society, University of
Ibadan – 2005.
• Chairman, Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall, University of Ibadan – 2006
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:
• Most influential student, Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall.
• Nominee, Professor H.O. Nottidge Award for Positive
Contribution to Administration of Halls and Faculties - 2007
• Nominee, Professor E.A. Bamgboye Award for Selfless
Contribution to a worthy course – 2009
• Nominee, Professor A.A. Agbaje Student Leadership Award –
2009
 • Most Outstanding Zikite Award-2008
• The Law Students’ Society Distinguished Students’ Award in
honour of Chief Adeniyi Akintola SAN- 2009
• Winner, All Nigeria United Nations, Student’ Oratory
Competition, among many others.
PHILOSOPHY
A man’s height is a function of the depth of his conviction, and
nothing great will ever be achieved without great men and men are great
only if they are determined to be so.

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