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Beyond The Classroom: Femi Otedola’s Success Story

Femi Otedola, a Nigerian billionaire entrepreneur, has revealed that he never went to college.

He acknowledged that he did not attend university since he lacked intellectual flare. This was revealed by Otedola, the chairman of First Bank Holding, in his 286-page memoir that was made public on Monday.

“My parents enrolled me at the University of Lagos Staff School in 1968, at the age of six.

“But there was something about academia and me; we were not compatible. I finished primary school in 1974 because I repeated a class. Even when I was allowed to pass, I consistently anchored the bottom rungs of our end-of-term examination results. My interests were definitely not in academia.

“I started Form 1 at age 12 and was there for three years.”

“I started in Form 3 at Olivet, and as I rounded off the first year of my A Levels, my father was establishing his printing company, Impact Press, in Surulere, a residential and commercial district in Lagos State. I grew fascinated with the machines and told myself that my future would be inextricably tied to them. I managed to remain in school until the Lower Sixth examination was over. And then, I was finished; I never returned for my Upper Sixth. “All I wanted to do was get involved in business. “My father kept watch over me and drew me close,” he said in the book

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