What a day!

I'm at the Foursquare Church, Victoria Garden City at Lagos. I'm thinking as I look at my mum two seats away with my Dad between. The church today is a home for me because she always took her kids to church. She has done more but for this, I say Thank You, Mum.

Finally, the graduation came. It was held at the Flamingo hall of the best Western Hotel at Benin City, Edo State. Chief Michael Ade-ojo of Toyota Nigeria Limited was there, Mr Victor Gbolade Osibodu of Vigeo Holdings was there, I was there too (hmmm, Did I see you smile?). It went well. (No need to talk much) Wait! wait! I actually shook hands with the two business gurus. We all did. Here, I stand with Tosin Ayoko, Kunle Olushola and Hammed Sodiq  We wore safety gears. Everyone including the accountants and mathematicians. I want to believe it is for real. That we would all have our safety gears but there is a teeny-weeny part of me that says it was for show. That the safety gears would not come till maybe after six months cos the company might want to use it for the other GTs that are on the queue. And I got to snap with the present head of the New Economy Department, Mr Gboyega Agunlejika. He wears a lecturer's gown because he was part of the faculty that...

Here's the edited one. I got a little help from Kiity. Sent it to her for a read-through. She did and gave some ideas that led to this. Speech The 8th of October last year marked the beginning of a story. A story whose timing I’ve tried to make into a short clip. A short clip of the field and classroom training. It all started at the waiting room at the Head Office where I sat with my colleagues, graduates who had been recruited alongside myself. The ambience was jovial. We shared experiences of the journey from the test, the interview and the wait till we were sent invitation letters. I could say no one had an inkling of what awaited us within the next 12 months. We didn’t have a chance of speculating as all discussions ended when Mrs Uche of the HR department walked in and made a roll call, verifying all who were present. The first assignment I had was to enumerate customers, index premises, tag transformers and poles and collect individual customer information. A l...