We have started again, a la Nigerian, a new round of motivational falsehoods now about Sir Shina Peters and Jim Ovia. It was the same rounds of untruths about Goodluck Jonathan and his luck with dying superiors.
Recently, it was the tales of how Dangote became wealthy as a result of Archbishop Idahosa's pronouncements of blessing on him after the former vacated a plane seat for Idahosa so that he can hurriedly travel with his guests. When air travel become danfo, abeg?
As much as I loved the morals of the Peters-Ovia story, I would still treat it as the pack of lies that it is.
It is public knowledge that the banking licenses approved by the Babangida administration in 1990 to the new generation banks sold for #5 million and Jim Ovia could as at then, not muster enough financial clout to go it all alone. Who dash Ovia #20 million in 1990?
Tayo Aderinokun and Fola Adeola, two already high-rolling guys had to come together with about other 30 friends to obtain the license that became the GTB.
The fabricators of these lies also faulted Shina's purported acquisition of a house for #20 million. How much was the royalty on Ace, Shina's 1987 smashing hot record that he will buy a house worth #20 million then?
Even if these stories were true, it is peurile to judge each man's decision by their seeming financial status today. A 1990 investment of #20 million in real estate anywhere in Lagos would have appreciated to around #300 million today. Ovia's #20 million might have become the behemoth Zenith bank has become today but both men are financially well-off and made decisions based on the information available to them at the time.
All fingers no dey equal.
To round it off, I was at the LyfeCamp 2016 conference for aspiring entrepreneurs in December, 2016, where I heard it first-hand how Ovia could not even get NEPA meter delivered on time to the 3-bedroom flat where Zenith bank started from. Now, that's very unlikely for someone who had #20 million that time.
Let's motivate ourselves but not with lies. We don tell our true success stories finish?

Biafra is our last hope. Give Ndigbo Biafra.

oblak00:
Biafra is our last hope. Give Ndigbo Biafra.

Don't be Neurotic, nobody gives you nothing, you got to take it.

Good research