“I Made You A Billionaire” – Obasanjo To Richest Woman In Africa Folonrunsho Alakija Who Is Worth Over $1.76 Billion

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday in Lagos that Folorunsho Alakija, Africa’s richest woman by Forbes reckoning, was among the 25 billionaires he made during his tenure as President.

Obasanjo stated this at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum.

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The former president was reacting to an allegation by Alakija at the event, that the Obasanjo administration frustrated her effort when she ventured into oil business.

Alakija, who spoke before Obasanjo, alleged that the administration illegally took an oil block allocated to her company after her family had invested all their savings to strike oil in commercial quantity.

“This oil block is in 5000 feet depth of water and was extremely difficult to explore.

“It took 15 years from the time that we were awarded the licence in 1993 till 2008 when we struck the first oil

“When this event happened, 60 per cent out of our 60 per cent equity in the business, was forcefully taken from us by the government of the day without due process.

“We had to fight back by going to court to seek redress and it took another 12 years for justice to be served in our favour.

“In all those years it was my trust in God, my perseverance and the support of my family that got me going,” she said.

She used her experiences to charge the 2000 budding entrepreneurs at the event to be dogged, determined and not to give up in the face of challenges.

When Obasanjo spoke, the former president seized the opportunity to reply to the allegation by Alakija.

“There is a saying in my part of the world that when a proverb touches you and you failed to reply, then you are a coward,” he said.

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Photos: Brazilian Woman Pretends To Be Dead All Because She Wanted To Experience How Funerals Feel Like (Must See)

A woman fulfilled her bizzare 14-year dream of holding her own funeral – while still alive.
Vera Lucia da Silva, 44, arranged to carry out her bizarre wish to lie in a coffin all day while family and friends pretended she was dead.And she said it was ‘the best day of her life.

According to Daily Mail, the extraordinary ceremony, which was held on the Day of the Dead celebration in South America on Wednesday, November 2, took place at a funeral home in Camocim, a seaside resort in north east Brazil.

While her friends and family were against the idea, they dressed in black and visited throughout the day in a show of support.
The owner of the Eternal Garden Funeral home, Paulo Araujo, donated the coffin and the space free to Vera, as a gesture of good will.

She said:

 ‘I wanted to hold my own funeral 14 years ago. I’ve waited a long time and can’t believe that at last this wish has been granted.
‘When I invited my friends and family they thought I was joking and they didn’t take it seriously.’

Mr Araujo said Vera has been trying to persuade him to fulfil her desire for five years but he has always resisted up until now.

He said: ‘Her husband has always been unhappy with the idea and has stopped her from doing it before.
‘But this time she finally managed to persuade the rest of her family to agree to the idea, so we went ahead.

Daily Mail

Court Frees All 5 Suspects Accused Of Killing Christian Igbo Trader, Bridget, Over Blasphemy In Kano

The five suspected killers of 74 year old Mrs. Bridget Agbahime, the Christian woman who was murdered for allegedly making a blasphemous statement at Kofar Wambai Market in Kano state on June 2nd, have been released.

The Chief Magistrate of the Kano Magistrate Court, today discharged all the five suspects namely Dauda Ahmed, Abdulmumeen Mustafa, Zubairu Abubakar, Abdullahi Abubakar and Musa Abdullahi.

The police had at the time of the incident arrested the suspects in connection with the murder and had immediately slammed a four-count charge of allegedly inciting disturbance, culpable homicide, joint act and mischief on them.

At the hearing of the case today, the Chief Magistrate, Muhammad Jibril, discharged the five suspects and terminated the case as advised by the attorney-general of Kano State.‎

The Principal State Counsel, Rabiu Yusuf, who represented the attorney-general of Kano State told the court that there is no case to answer as all the suspects were innocent and should be discharged immediately.

“I Achieved My Dreams Without A University Degree” – Africa’s Richest Woman Folorunsho Alakija Who Is Worth $1.76 Billion Reveals

Nigerian business tycoon, Folorunsho Alakija, says 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.

From Brothel To The Altar: Ex-Ashewo Ties The Knot With Her Fiancé In Rivers State

It was an incredible testimony for a seasoned commercial sex worker, who in September 2016 was among the commercial sex workers evangelized by the G.O of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Apostle Dr. Chibuzor Chinyere, from a well known brothel in Diobu, Port Harcourt, to be happily joined to her husband.

According to the G.O, he said, part of his evangelism message to the converts, was a promise that he will not only provided accommodations for them, set up businesses for them, but to also participate and bankroll their traditional and church weddings, should any of them, in the cause of her services to God, find any man of her choice to marry.

The over excited bride in her reactions said, “In my life, Saturday 28th September, 2016 can not be forgotten in a hurry. It was the day I met with the G.O in our brothel at Diobu, where my life was messed up with prostitution.”

The groom said “I knew this my wife some years back but have lost contact with her, I am not a member of OPM but I appreciated the good work of Daddy OPM. He sponsored my wedding and provided an accommodation for us to leave after the ceremony, he made my day worth celebrating. I pray God to continue to bless him and the member of the Church”.

Photos: Oyinbo Man Smokes African Marijuana For The First Time And Went To The Airport Naked (Must See)

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