CNN has featured Nigeria's Abdullahi Olatoyan, the young man who was spotted washing car windscreens dressed in a suit and bow tie. Read what they wrote about him after the cut...

From CNN

In Congo, Sapeurs (the Society of tastemakers and elegant people), are known for their love of luxury tailoring even while performing the most mundane of tasks. But one car windscreen cleaner in Nigeria's Abeokuta is competing for this title.

Abdulahi Olatoyan, who is a university dropout in his early thirties, turned to the streets to make a living and save enough money to start his own business. Wearing a bright polka dot suit and red velvet bow tie, Olatoyan says he hopes to return to school one day and finish his studies. "I didn't want to be wandering the streets doing nothing" he explains, adding he wanted to make sure people knew he was serious about his work.

"He is the first suited windscreen cleaner I have ever seen", says photographer Daniel Sync, who decided to take photos. "We need more innovative citizens like Abdulahi in Nigeria", he added.

Sync spotted the cleaner on his way to work and rushed to the office to pick up his camera. The photographs have since gone viral - with Olatoyan being offered a job at Nigerian clothing line OUCH.

The label's designer Uche Nnaji posted on Instagram that Olatoyan could come work at his company, and listed seven reasons why he deserved the job. He asked his 18,000 followers to help track down the elegant squeegee man.

Olatoyan has now been offered a position as 'style doctor' at the menswear brand: "I have a team of young people that I call style doctors," says Nnaji, "when I saw him I thought this person is someone that likes looking good and can style others". "I saw attitude in him and thought if this man is doing this just to go and wash cars, he is someone that will work with a different mindset even if he's doing the least popular job in the company" he added.

Olatoyan will soon begin offering his own distinctive opinions on style and taste to customers.

source
http://www.reportnaija.com/2016/05/cnn-features-dapper-car-windscreen.html

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God has picked his call just like Olajumoke. God, please, pick my own call too.

The lesson I learnt from this man and Olajumoke is that, you can't be idle and expect God to answer your prayers. You have to be up and doing before God add increase to the works of your hand. And there is no person that God cannot change his/her status, provided such a person is not ashamed to start little and as well not lazy.




Another lesson is that, we should never despise humble beginnings, one might be poor today, but no condition is permanent. So, let's all cultivate the habit of not looking down on anybody, except we're admiring their shoes. Those who we look at as needy today may be those who will meet our needs tomorrow.

May God bless the works of our hands o.

I know this guy. I see him around maryland Ikeja in Lagos.