mecussey: These are the ones you know, go to Onitsha, almost all the millionaires their are illitrates. They own half of the properties at Alaba international market. I would say they are successful.

Bossforeva: yea into electronics engineering, dropped afterwards

Pennywise:

But he left without a degree!!!

Justice629: Olorogun Michael Ibru:
Michael Ibru is the founder of Ibru Organization which is one of the largest conglomerates in Nigeria and head of one of the richest family in Nigeria. He is a prominent Nigerian businessman who has only a school certificate to his name, he graduated from Igbobi college in 1951.

Razaq Akanni Okoya:
A Nigerian billionaire industrialist, he is the founder of Eleganza Group which has a marketing span across West Africa. The lack of a proper education was not a barrier to Razaq Okoya in his quest for success. He had his only formal education at Ansar-un-deen primary School, Oke popo, Lagos.

Orji Uzor Kalu:
He is the billionaire founder of SLOK Holding as well as the founder of Daily Sun and New Telegraph Newspapers. He was rusticated from the university for participating in a students’ protest. The university later reconsidered its decision and he was called back but he rejected the offer and ventured into entrepreneurship instead.

Michael Collins Ajere (Don Jazzy):
don jazzy the prolific music producer and C.E.O of Mavin Records, Michael Collins better known as Don Jazzy is one of Nigeria’s successful Nigerians that didn’t need education to attain greatness. He was ranked the second most bankable artiste in Africa by Channel O and Forbes Africa, interesting to note is that he dropped out of Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma in his first year.

InyinyaAgbaOku:

illiterates? no
They can read and write.
non graduates? yes

kabba7:

Most rich and educated Nigerians are actually fraudsters many made money stealing government money .

Education is good but dont guarrantee being rich .

rattlesnake: But somebody else who went to university on their behalf was behind their success......

Don jazzy cant make music without some software developer
Coscharis cant sell cars without the engineers who made the cars
Famfa oil cant do business without the oil engineers
Mercy Johnson cant have Big braests without Dr 90210

etc etc etc

I will rather go to school

InyinyaAgbaOku:

Many graduates are also living below the poverty lines

kay29000: People are fighting OP because of this topic...they feel these are just the ones that got lucky, and that they are a larger fraction of people who never went to the University that are living in poverty. Well, my Dad didn't go to the University, but he rose high in one of the banks still standing in Nigeria right now in the 80-90s. Guaranteed that things have changed, but I still strongly believe that proper secondary school education is enough for anyone to be super successful in life, as long as he knows what he wants to do.

dammytosh:

Do you want to compare the education standard that produce your dad with the one we have now.

A secondary school holder in this modern Nigeria can no rise an inch in any bank. The person will either be a cleaner or a security guard at most. This is simply a fact.

InyinyaAgbaOku:

Many graduates are also living below the poverty lines

Pyroxene: Apart from university there are other sources of education oooo, polytechnics, monotechnics, college of educations, technical colleges,secondary schools, primary schools, I believe these people must have aquired one of these. We even have informal education too......a well taught primary school child is already well equipt to face life as far as I am concerned. He can get a blue collard job and excel beyound d skies and even have conglomerates.......... So what's the fuzz about university education jor

vislabraye:

But education has helped more people come out of poverty in Nigeria.

tebirim: If you like no go sch... Guess you are looking for a way to justify your inability to finish

kay29000: People are fighting OP because of this topic...they feel these are just the ones that got lucky, and that they are a larger fraction of people who never went to the University that are living in poverty. Well, my Dad didn't go to the University, but he rose high in one of the banks still standing in Nigeria right now in the 80-90s. Guaranteed that things have changed, but I still strongly believe that proper secondary school education is enough for anyone to be super successful in life, as long as he knows what he wants to do.

obisage:
I agree with u. but honestly, if our youths can pay the level of attention and enthusiasm they pay to university education to vocational training, believe me, we won't have the level of unemployment we have in Nigeria today. very few of them go to school to study what they have passion for. everybody goes to school to have good certificate to get a job.

JOB CREATED BY WHO
by the so called "uneducated" people, when they were busy wasting time in the university.

Bossforeva: Seun too. Entrepreneurship is the surest way forward

kay29000: People are fighting OP because of this topic...they feel these are just the ones that got lucky, and that they are a larger fraction of people who never went to the University that are living in poverty. Well, my Dad didn't go to the University, but he rose high in one of the banks still standing in Nigeria right now in the 80-90s. Guaranteed that things have changed, but I still strongly believe that proper secondary school education is enough for anyone to be super successful in life, as long as he knows what he wants to do.

rattlesnake: But somebody else who went to university on their behalf was behind their success......

Don jazzy cant make music without some software developer
Coscharis cant sell cars without the engineers who made the cars
Famfa oil cant do business without the oil engineers
Mercy Johnson cant have Big braests without Dr 90210

etc etc etc

I will rather go to school