THE GREAT ACHIEVER

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I called myself "THE GREAT ACHIEVER" in my last post of yesterday, for the fact that I have been able to overcome many turbulences in life. 

As at March 2015, my unexpected and orchestrated journey to greatness started just after my enterprises folded up and I also got tired of my locality and I decided to move out. With courage I left Osogbo, my comfort zone to Lagos in search of greener pastures. With just N1,500 naira only, I landed in Lagos like a scavenger, spent a week with my friend in Ajuwon, and immediately after that one week, I became a homeless visionary that needed clarity. I slept in motor parks and under the bridges. As a vision bearer and mover, I didn't let my challenges and circumstances terminate my vision, despite how big and overwhelming my challenges was, I didn’t let go off my dreams. 

The attempts I made to get temporary accommodation with three different individuals, whom I once helped in different occasions was jeopardized, as they turned me down. 

I turned my homelessness into a time to learn, research, do social and humanitarian works, also times to go on adventure and expedition.

With no supplies, provisions and any initial backing I moved on with my life and mission to be the change with tremble and without tremble, to make positive impacts at all cost.

As an orphan, I am born with the trait to serve humanity, serve my community and my country, as my late parents and late foster grandmother did, to serve God and humanity wholeheartedly, as a small boy, I learnt many of what I do today from my late parents, despite the fact that I only read, and heard testimonies of their good works from the mouth of the many people they touched positively during their short lifetime.

I started officially my #socialImpact work 23 years ago as a semi-literate with secondary school certificate, with a great passion and much obsession to excel in all the work our organization does. I had to do away with everything that has to do with accumulating of possessions, instead I intend to build a gigantic business empire for the sustainability of the foundation I founded in memory of my American foster grandmother and my personal #socialImpact works as a patriotic Nigerian and African. 

Today I'm grateful that everyday our works is getting attention and recognition.

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In April 2015 as a distressed visionary whose future seems dicey, in a bid to find help and at the same time #DoGood I went to Ogbomoso to see someone. I looked tired, stressed, with no money and about to sell my expensive android phone for a token. As I walked down towards the abandoned Ibadan/Oyo/Ogbomoso/¬Ilorin Road, I discovered an underground bridge that I found very attractive due to its strategic location, I took some selfie by the side of the bridge despite my odd look. After then every time I look at the selfie, I weep for joy. 

Two ago, after four years, I returned back to the same bridge at that same spot to take transformational pictures of myself and with the expectation that the bridge must have been completed by the construction company constructing the road and our government, but sadly and unfortunately I met the bridge in the same sorry state I left it in 2015.

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