What a day!

I was suprised to see Osemwegie last Saturday. He cam in some minutes past 8p.m. He had come from Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State where he lectures. I was happy to see the great guy after a very long time. We had communicated on Friday and he didnt mention anything like coming to Benin. So it was more of a suprise to see him. He had a long talk with his dad and mum. Apparently, something serious was up and I would later discover that It was something that had started about three to four years ago, something I knew about. Something that would have to do with his future. Everyone's future actually, but more of his. And then Sunday came, we attended church together (Winners Chapel, Iyekogba, Benin City) and he was almost saying someone would feel somehow about he going to Winners but I just pushed him on. No one felt anyhow afterwards that I knew about. The most suprising thing about the day was the visit to people he knew at Benin. We visited his grand-mum, his mother...

From this week, I've got just two weeks left for my training year with BEDC to end. The journey started October last year. So much has gone down, so much has been added and learnt. Not just about the technical  and financial things but also the culture of the people of Benin and the environment. We should get our postings by the end of the training period. Let me also say we would be having a graduation ceremony by the end of this month. graduating from the Vigeo Power Academy. The postings. After the graduation, we'll know where we would be posted to, I had an agreement with Olaolu with regards to being in Lagos and I still hold on to this. Don't ask me how its gonna happen. I don't know how. I just believe so. I had doubted a lot of times. Times when Pastor Kingsley shook me and told me about not getting married and being far away and I hesistated in saying Amen when he prayed. And you know, As always I got questioned for hesitating. Olaolu does this well (winks)...

image extracted from www.dividenddiplomats.com I'm enjoying teaching now. Teaching about investments. Not that I know it all but I've been taught a little on it since I got to Benin by someone I'll like to call a Mentor. Mr Tim. When I think of Robert Kiyosaki's books, I see Mr Tim. practised most of what Robert talked about. Investing in stocks, businesses, real estate, he was a writer too I should add and a motivational speaker when he was younger and he did all this while working as an employee of a government institution here in Nigeria. He would rather I bought shares with my money than appreciate him in any way. ''Buy Guinness, Buy Nigerian Breweries, Buy PZ '  or  'Go with the Manufacturers, not the banks' he would say whenever we met. I had about four sessions with him where he told me of the inner workings of investing in the stock market. It is about a year now and I haven't stopped telling colleagues about investing, teach...