Billionaire
business tycoon, Folorunsho Alakija, has revealed why she did go to university.
According to her,
it 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”, she added.
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.
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 said.
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