Femi Adeyeye react:


Dear Paddy Adenuga,

How are you Ore mi Olówó, awon ti Chevron? People have always said we look alike. I disagreed with them until recently, when I looked closely at the shape of your head. Ìbí ló yàtò, Orí wá jo'ra won. No apologies to my non-yoruba audience. I'm sorry. This is a family issue.

I read your very brilliant story on how you started from the bottom and sincerely for those of us who started from the top, we are challenged. It is also interesting to know that you are 'unpadding' your family wealth from your success story. But I do not understand what you are trying to achieve with this story of yours especially at this time when young people like you are very frustrated.

However, your story made me remember an event organized sometime in 2016 at the University of Lagos with Folorunsho Alakija, the richest black woman as one of the speakers. She didactically took her audience through lessons of endurance, perseverance and humility, going further to tell them that 'you don't have to be educated to be a millionaire'. She may be right but caution was thrown to the wind in that statement. You do not come to a school environment, even at a gathering of Professors, to quip such darts of 'mockery', all in the name of 'motivational speaking'. Very wrong move.
She could leave the audience without being challenged because no one cares how you get your money in my Country. Once you are rich in Nigeria, you become a celebrated 'Motivational Speaker'.
Lest I forget, Davido was also invited to motivate undergraduate and postgraduate scholars.

I do not know if you have heard about Tella Temitayo Rahamon, a modern fashionprenuer who utilizes social media as tool in his business. He has a reasonable staff strength and has been in the business for 10 years running. The wealthy Alakija didn't do her 'fashion business' up to 10 years before she owned oil bloc(s); what ought to be a National property. This was in the late 80's to 1993 when there was no social media to even promote the fashion and printing -the same printing Baba Bisi in Ota, Ogun State does.
From Clothes to Printing to Owning and Exploring in an Oil field shows a transition that could only be made possible by the 'Nigerian God'. Talk about Bill Gates, Microsoft comes to mind. Zuckerberg -Facebook. Steve Jobs- Apple Corporations. Nigerian Billionaire- 'God has been faithful'.
Do not forget that the popular Yomi Casual does not own a petrol station let alone an oil bloc. It then baffles me and stabs any known economic logic in the World, how a 1980 fashion designer 'worked so hard with humility, perseverance and endurance' and 'God' rewarded the tailor with OIL BLOC.
The Author of The Richest Man in Babylon contacted me last night that he wants to co-author The Richest Woman in Babylon with Alakija for she is 'super smart'. Her philosophy and principles of wealth creation beat all imaginations.

Paddy, If your story was for some motivational stunts, it won't...

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Femi Adeyeye react:


Dear Paddy Adenuga,

How are you Ore mi Olówó, awon ti Chevron? People have always said we look alike. I disagreed with them until recently, when I looked closely at the shape of your head. Ìbí ló yàtò, Orí wá jo'ra won. No apologies to my non-yoruba audience. I'm sorry. This is a family issue.

I read your very brilliant story on how you started from the bottom and sincerely for those of us who started from the top, we are challenged. It is also interesting to know that you are 'unpadding' your family wealth from your success story. But I do not understand what you are trying to achieve with this story of yours especially at this time when young people like you are very frustrated.

However, your story made me remember an event organized sometime in 2016 at the University of Lagos with Folorunsho Alakija, the richest black woman as one of the speakers. She didactically took her audience through lessons of endurance, perseverance and humility, going further to tell them that 'you don't have to be educated to be a millionaire'. She may be right but caution was thrown to the wind in that statement. You do not come to a school environment, even at a gathering of Professors, to quip such darts of 'mockery', all in the name of 'motivational speaking'. Very wrong move.
She could leave the audience without being challenged because no one cares how you get your money in my Country. Once you are rich in Nigeria, you become a celebrated 'Motivational Speaker'.
Lest I forget, Davido was also invited to motivate undergraduate and postgraduate scholars.

I do not know if you have heard about Tella Temitayo Rahamon, a modern fashionprenuer who utilizes social media as tool in his business. He has a reasonable staff strength and has been in the business for 10 years running. The wealthy Alakija didn't do her 'fashion business' up to 10 years before she owned oil bloc(s); what ought to be a National property. This was in the late 80's to 1993 when there was no social media to even promote the fashion and printing -the same printing Baba Bisi in Ota, Ogun State does.
From Clothes to Printing to Owning and Exploring in an Oil field shows a transition that could only be made possible by the 'Nigerian God'. Talk about Bill Gates, Microsoft comes to mind. Zuckerberg -Facebook. Steve Jobs- Apple Corporations. Nigerian Billionaire- 'God has been faithful'.
Do not forget that the popular Yomi Casual does not own a petrol station let alone an oil bloc. It then baffles me and stabs any known economic logic in the World, how a 1980 fashion designer 'worked so hard with humility, perseverance and endurance' and 'God' rewarded the tailor with OIL BLOC.
The Author of The Richest Man in Babylon contacted me last night that he wants to co-author The Richest Woman in Babylon with Alakija for she is 'super smart'. Her philosophy and principles of wealth creation beat all imaginations.

Paddy, If your story was for some motivational stunts, it won't...

Yusuf Aweda reaction:

I took time to read the long article by Paddy Adenuga on how he almost bought Chevron Netherland at 29 .

The piece was replete with charming words. I think I am a fan of good English expressions nurtured with admirable creativities. I thrilled for that


But I am NOT motivated. I don't wanna explain why now though .

I do not also want to talk about how he continuously bragged trying to push the Chevron deal, emphasizing his age at 29. Remarkable isn't it?


Now I know he was actually 29 and 'young'. Unlike someone older in the oil and gas business that could not even stand such status right?

And also Unlike many of us still struggling on the ladder of success on the street at that age. So the age number reiteration was well understood.



He also superciliously captured how he founded Catalan in London and hiring top brains including many international experts. .But I am guessing the fund he used for that appeared from heaven too.


Now finally to those who wanna regard him as their next role model.

My advice. Try to find your way into a family big paying job first and rise to the level of director within the big pay too like he did in Glo.


If not, you would not be able to fly swiftly and smoothly to the UK, found Catalan so so cheaply and then looking for one Chevron to buy 'upandan'..


In fairness to him, I think he got one thing correctly, the way he modelled himself as a disciplined child who managed his family business wisely, but,but,but not without very very oppressive expressions though



Aweda 1439AH.

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Yusuf Aweda reaction:

I took time to read the long article by Paddy Adenuga on how he almost bought Chevron Netherland at 29 .

The piece was replete with charming words. I think I am a fan of good English expressions nurtured with admirable creativities. I thrilled for that


But I am NOT motivated. I don't wanna explain why now though .

I do not also want to talk about how he continuously bragged trying to push the Chevron deal, emphasizing his age at 29. Remarkable isn't it?


Now I know he was actually 29 and 'young'. Unlike someone older in the oil and gas business that could not even stand such status right?

And also Unlike many of us still struggling on the ladder of success on the street at that age. So the age number reiteration was well understood.



He also superciliously captured how he founded Catalan in London and hiring top brains including many international experts. .But I am guessing the fund he used for that appeared from heaven too.


Now finally to those who wanna regard him as their next role model.

My advice. Try to find your way into a family big paying job first and rise to the level of director within the big pay too like he did in Glo.


If not, you would not be able to fly swiftly and smoothly to the UK, found Catalan so so cheaply and then looking for one Chevron to buy 'upandan'..


In fairness to him, I think he got one thing correctly, the way he modelled himself as a disciplined child who managed his family business wisely, but,but,but not without very very oppressive expressions though



Aweda 1439AH.

The reality:

age 6, "A" was at Cemetery Primary School, helping his teacher to break melon and loosen her hair, at age 6, "P" was at Nottingham Primary School, learning programming and how to be a leader in the 21st century.

At age 10, "A" at primary 5 went on excursion to Bar beach, at same age, "P" was on an excursion to Intel, McKinsey and Shell headquarters.

At age 16, "A" was at Unilag studying Bus Admin under Big Ben, made excursion to PZ and Nigerian stock exchange, at age 16, "P" was at London school of Economics, listening to classes from former ED of shell, listened to Nobel laureate in seminars, reviewed a term paper with financial director of ExxonMobil in France and his final project was focused on Deloitte, UK.

At age 20, "A" graduated and went for NYSC, at same age, "P" graduated and went for internship in Accenture, Amazon and Aramco.

At age 24, "A" is struggling to get the number of years of experience to get him a job in PZ, at age 24, "P" was on the board of one of the largest telecom companies in Africa sitting with world renowned executives and meeting the best hands in the corporate sectors in the world as well as singing MoU with top executives.

At age "29" "A" is trying to form a consortium to compete with PZ and their likes but have issues with the economy, at the same age, "P" is trying to achieve what his exposure, training and school offered him.

Pls what do you expect from both?

While at age 12-20, "A" listens to his parent discuss how to pay house rent and manage their salary from PZ (In thousands), but "P" listen to his father and colleagues discussing proceeds from an oil well in Billions, discussing how to establish Glo Ghana, discussing business in tune of millions of dollars.

From childhood, what "A" hears is thousand of naira on daily basis, while "P" hears his father discuss Billions and dollars everyday.

If "P" thinks about billions, expectedly, "A" should think about thousands, if "A" thinks millions, "P" should think Trillions, if "A" thinks Trillions, "P" should be thinking out of this world, that how human brains are wired.

The two scenarios explain explicitly the impact of exposure, background, schooling and orientation on the goal and hope of man.

Take it or leave it, what you have witnessed over the years, normally impact on what you can imagine.

Somebody that has never come across the word billions can't imagine what billion means.

There are many Paddys, striving to establish a chemist shop, a barbers shop, a fishery and any meaningful source of livelihood, that's what their background, orientation, school and exposure granted them.

It's only the government that can bridge this gap, no matter how hardworking you are.