"I DIDN'T GO TO THE UNIVERSITY, YET I'VE SUCCEEDED"
~ Chief Folorunsho Alakija, supposed Africa's richest woman, addressing young, impressionable university kids.

MY TAKE:
Wrong impression, madam. And not a very conscise or honest representation of your story.

Yes, you do not have a university degree but you also failed to let the kids know you were for a very long time, one of the zillions of pedestrian fashion designers (i.e. tailors) littering the Nigerian landscape. I remember your shop, Rose of Sharon, on Adeniran Ogunsanya Drive in Surulere, Lagos. That is, until your chance meeting with former President Ibrahim Babangida (some say it was a neatly-arranged but discreet 'social' meeting) who, after being very impressed with your 'work', showed you his deepest appreciation by corruptly 'dashing' you a couple of very nice OPLs (commonly referred to as oil blocs).

With a daily return of a million dollars from each of the oil blocs (we hear they are actually 3, 2 of which President Olusegun Obasanjo attempted to take back for the Nigerian state when he came on stream because, according to records, the oil blocs were improperly given out, a matter for which you took the Nigerian state to court and somehow got 'justice') - with a cool one million dollars DAILY each from 3 oil blocs, (that's almost half a billion naira daily and N15billion monthly!) any slowpoke would become stupendously wealthy.

But how many imbeciles get to have a chance meeting with an obscenely corrupt President of an oil-rich state whose payment in return for very personal services was gifting away the national commonwealth?

Do not mislead our kids, madam. Your story is not an everyday kind of thing. There are tens of millions toiling away in abject poverty across the land because they were unfortunate enough to lack university education.

Agreed, education doesn't guarantee a life of riches, and lack of it doesn't mean you'll live in penury. But no one can or should diminish the importance of a solid education in the moulding of a complete human being - least of all people like you who use the commonwealth of the people to give their own offsprings the very best education the world can give.

FINAL THOUGHT.
These nonentities who live big and grow fat on what should otherwise be the commonwealth of all citizens should just keep quiet and enjoy their loot in obscurity, instead of running their mouths and misleading young, impressionable kids with their distorted stories. Front page MOD

Hmmmn....