During the meeting, which took place in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President admonished them to come up with a candidate that reflects all the values and virtues of the party.

Dropped Out Of University At 19
Passion is at the heart of everything we do and the energy that fuels success. This was well demonstrated by Michael Dell, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world’s largest technology infrastructure companies with revenue of $101 billion in the year to Jan. 31, 2022. $101.

The billionaire had chosen to pursue his own dreams in spite of his parent wanting another direction from him.

Dell is the number 23rd on the Bloomberg billionaire list with an estimated net worth of $47.2 billion as of 17th May 2022. He is also a shareholder of VMWAre Inc., which was spun off from Dell in 2021 through a special dividend.

Education And Foray Into Business
Michael Saul Dell was born on February 23, 1965, to a Jewish family in Houston to Lorraine Charlotte and Alexander Dell. At a very tender age, he started demonstrating likeness for computing and business.

At age 12, Michael washed dishes at a Chinese restaurant to raise money for his stamp collection and at the age of 15, he sold subscriptions to Houston Post in the summer, which earned him $18,000 in one single year as a high school student in Memorial High School, learning to target specific populations for newspaper subscriptions.

He soon got an Apple II, which he promptly disassembled to see how it worked.

He got admission to study medicine in the University of Texas in 1983, satisfying his parents who wanted him to be a doctor. Meanwhile, he didn’t let that stand in the way of his passion as he started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers leveraging on the fact that the PC world was still young and that no company had tried selling directly to customers as he sold computers for people he knew at college.

His emphasis, however, was on strong customer support and cheaper prices as well as good machines. Soon, he built accounts outside of school

Building the Dell brand
In 1984, Dell dropped out of school and focused all his efforts on his business. He registered the business and relocated to a business centre in North Austin and employed a few hands to help out.

By 1992, at the age of 27, he became the youngest CEO of a company ranked in Fortune magazine’s list of the top 500 corporations.

In 1996, Dell started selling computers over the Web, launching its first servers. The company also improved in sales per day from dell.com to $1 million.

By 2000, Dell became a billionaire and his company had offices in 34 countries with an employee count of over 35,000.

In 2001, Dell surpassed Compaq to become the world’s largest PC maker as its world market share reached 12.8 percent, which marked the first time the rankings shifted over the previous seven years.

Other Endeavours
• Michael is married to Susan and they both have four children.
• In 2009, they both established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation which focuses on grants, urban education, childhood health and family economic stability.
• In 1998, Dell founded MSD Capital L.P. to manage his family’s investments. Investment activities include publicly traded securities, private equity activities, and real estate.
• In 2004, he stepped down as Dell CEO but returned following an accounting scandal in 2007
• In 2015, he agreed to acquire the enterprise software and storage company EMC Corporation for $67 billion, in a deal labelled as the highest-valued tech acquisition in history – the acquisition was completed in 2016.
• In July 2010 Dell Inc. agreed to pay a $100 million penalty to settle SEC charges of disclosure and accounting fraud in relation to undisclosed payments from Intel Corporation.

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A child science prodigy has wowed his professors and classmates by becoming a college graduate at the age of 13. Elliott Tanner recently graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in physics, with a minor in mathematics.

"I feel ecstatic," Elliott, a Minnesota resident, told Live Science. "It is a truly surreal experience."

Though incredible, this achievement does not make Elliott the youngest college graduate in U.S. history. That title belongs to Michael Kearney, who graduated from the University of South Alabama with a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1992 at the age of 10, according to the BBC.

Elliott's parents are "incredibly proud" of the hard work and dedication he displayed to get his degree at such a young age and are pleased that he has become an inspiration to lots of people. "While he has an amazing capacity to learn, he's also a kind and funny human being," Michelle Tanner, Elliott's mom, told Live Science. "He inspires us to be better people everyday."

Elliott plans to earn a doctorate if his parents can raise the necessary funds. In the future, Elliott aims to be a professor at the University of Minnesota and become an expert in high-energy theoretical physics, the study of the most elementary building blocks of matter and the fundamental forces between them. "I can't wait to get started," he said.

Age is just a number
Elliott's parents first realized their son was gifted before he started school; he displayed remarkable language and math skills from the age 3. When he was 5, Elliott enrolled in his local kindergarten but was quickly taken out of school when it became clear that a traditional education experience would not be a good fit for him.

"He was talking about particle accelerators when he was 5 years old, when other kids were pretending to be Superman on the playground," Michelle said.

Elliott was then homeschooled by his parents, who supported his inquisitive nature and appetite for knowledge on their own. The pair tried to limit Elliott to the curriculum of his peers, but despite their best efforts, he advanced at an astonishing rate.

"Elliott ended up learning and consuming information quicker than we could provide it," Tanner said. "His room was filled with textbooks that he would read immediately." He often chose to spend his birthday money on books instead of toys or games, she added.

By age 9, Elliott had already completed most of the normal high school curriculum, and his parents were struggling to keep up with him. So they enrolled him at his local community college. "As parents, we were terrified," Tanner said. "But he excelled, and the school administration and other students took him under their wings."

It was at community college that Elliott really forged his passion for physics. "For a long time, I wanted to be a mathematician," Elliott said. "Then I was exposed to a physics class that really intrigued and inspired me to learn more about the secrets of the world."

When he was 11 years old, Elliott transferred to the University of Minnesota to start studying physics and math. The ease with which Elliott transitioned to college life came as a shock to his professors and his significantly older classmates.

"There is sometimes a short period of confusion as to why I am there [in class], but that wears off quickly," Elliott said. Although his college experience is a little different from that of his classmates, Elliott still hangs out with his peers in the student lounge, discussing homework, debating physics topics or watching movies.

Elliott has also had to deal with the media coverage that comes with being a prodigy. He is often compared to Sheldon Cooper, the main character in "The Big Bang Theory" spinoff "Young Sheldon," and he said he has even become friends with Iain Armitage, the actor that plays Young Sheldon.

"Young Sheldon has shown some of the hardships I have faced," Elliott said. "And I do appreciate seeing other gifted people on shows."

One of the biggest challenges Elliott and his family have faced is criticism, especially online, from people who do not understand his situation and make snap judgments about what his life must be like.

"People seem to have a preconceived notion that Elliott's childhood has been stolen from him," Tanner said. "People also assume he must be lacking in social skills." But this couldn't be "further from the truth," she added.

However, Elliott has always enjoyed interacting with kids his own age, Tanner said. He loves playing with other neighborhood children, doing stuff like building cardboard armor, making board games, visiting amusement parks and playing "Dungeons and Dragons." And just like the other kids, Elliott goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, but with a decidedly academic twist: He dresses up as Albert Einstein or theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, his favorite scientist.

Elliott has been accepted into the University of Minnesota's physics doctoral program and is due to start his doctorate in the next academic year. Unfortunately, his acceptance into the program has not come with the financial support students would normally receive.

Elliott on the University of Minnesota campus.

Elliott on the University of Minnesota campus. (Image credit: Michelle Tanner)
Usually, the university provides students with a package that includes a stipend (basic salary), health insurance and a tuition waiver. In this case, however, the physics department opted not to because they have apprehensions about giving Elliott teaching responsibilities, which is a big part of the program. The decision came as a surprise to Elliott's parents, who were relying on the grant to support Elliott's education. They estimate that the entire doctoral program will cost around $90,000 to complete.

"We never imagined sending a 9-year-old to college, let alone a 13-year-old to graduate school, so we never had the time to build up a college fund," Tanner said. The only option left was to start a GoFundMe campaign, she added

As of April 28, Elliott's GoFundMe page has raised more than $28,000, which means that he should at least be able to complete the first year. "We are so grateful that our friends, family, community and the general public have supported Elliott," Tanner said. "He wouldn't be able to continue his studies without the support."

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The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology held its combined convocation ceremony recently and Miracle Olawale Olatunde emerged as the overall best graduating student with a CGPA of 4.90 out of 5.00.

She was the best student from a combined convocation of five different sets.

Miracle was gifted a cheque of N50,000 ($85) in recognition of her academic excellence by the university’s management.

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