It isn't a news again how late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo approached late chief Timothy Adeola Odutola , a business tycoon for a loan of £1,400(one thousand and four hundred pounds) in 1943 for further study in Law in England and how late chief Timothy Adeola Odutola declined to give him the loan. After a year later, out of determination, late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was able to travel abroad in 1944 through another means. And in 1946,he became a barrister at Law and was called to the bar.
In 1954, ten years later, the same late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo became the premier of the old Western Region, a premier was more or less a president, ruling over all the states under Western Region, that is, all the yoruba speaking States in Nigeria. While the same late chief Adeola Odutola who declined to give late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo a loan became a local government chairman under late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who wasn't given the loan.
The two personalities were great sons of Ijebu Land. I respect both men, even in death. Were it not for the free education I received from the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) a party formed by late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, I don't know the state I would have been today educationally. If I can write today, I thank God,I thank my parents, I thank my guardian, I thank late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo and I thank all my teachers in life.
Late chief Timothy Adeola Odutola, the Ogbeni Oja himself was in his days as Dangote is to Africa in trading today. He was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. When you talked of a man highly blessed with the chemistry of business, you needed to look for late chief Timothy Adeola Odutola. I still can remember Odutola tyres, Odutola biscuits, Odutola Trading Stores, to mention a few of his lines of businesses.
When late chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was asked before his death the reason why he didn't give late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, the loan of £1,400 (one thousand and four hundred pounds) he answered by saying late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was not known to him then , that he only knew him to be a letter writer and besides, his business empire then was jointly owned by his brother and himself. That late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo only approached him for the loan, he didn't approach his brother.
How would an unknown figure in 1943 would become a premier and a world renowned leader in 1954, eleven years after he was turned back for the loan? Were it not for God who always turns the table of life the areas he likes.
Late chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo and late chief Timothy Adeola Odutola are no more today, but we can all remember the story of Jumoke Orisaguna, a breads seller who hit gold by becoming a breadwinner. While she was hawking her breads, fate allowed her to walk passed along the area a team of modeling experts were taking some photo shots.
By chance the lense of their camera captured this bread seller, known as Jumoke Orisaguna. The team saw in her, a beauty to use for their modelling. She was searched for some days later and she was signed as a brand name for some companies, even as an illiterate. The fame of Jumoke Orisaguna today can't be quantified. The lady worths millions of naira in term of asset today . This was a hawker of breads in just January, 2016 and in February, 2016 God changed her garment of dishonour to a garment of honour. This is what God can do. You that still believe in your degrees, remember that when God wants to help you, your degrees are worthless. I am not saying that education is not good, don't misquote me. I am only talking about divine favour or divine help.
How are you treating human beings? Do you treat people with disdain? Your attitude is always who is he? Who is she? A common bricklayer! a common shoemaker! You always say. If this is your attitude towards people, then you are still operating in the past
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