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*Were you tempted to stay back in the US after your studies?*

To be honest with you, yes. I was lucky when I got to Chicago State University. I entered the university with honours from the Richard Daley College, because I got credit in majority of the Accounting courses.
After the first term, I was one of the candidates on the Dean’s list and my professor, Joe Jesse, commended me for my hard work, class participation and brilliance. He said that I would be lucky if I could keep my activities and brilliant results up till the end of the term. He didn’t say more or in what form the luck would manifest.
At the end of the term, and still on the Dean’s list, Professor Jesse came around to inform me that he would employ me to manage the Accounting laboratory for the institution. He gave the letter of employment to the dean of the faculty. The following week, I was called upon to take up employment as a tutor in the institution because I was very good at Mathematics and Accounting. I met Tunde Badejo in the school; he was a year ahead of me. But I told him (we took a bet) that we would graduate the same year and he didn’t believe. Later, when I was given a scholarship to become a tutor, I took the letter to Tunde Badejo and said: ‘See, the school is paying my tuition.’ He was amazed. That was how I became a tutor, with my tuition being paid. Tunde Badejo majored in Mathematics, and having been challenged, his performance got better the following semester and he also became a Maths tutor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. I was challenged and severely under pressure to keep up the grade as each semester rolled by, because if my grades should drop I would lose the scholarship. It was quite challenging and in the end, I graduated top of my class and I was recruited as an Accounting major. There were big accounting firms then. Touche was number nine. I was recruited. And I still got other job offers. Then there were eight big accounting firms in the United States, including Arthur Andersen , Arthur Young, Ernst and Whinney, Peat Marwick and Mitchell, Deloitte and others. Out of the big eight, five of them offered me jobs and that was school recruitment–right on the campus.

I was on the Dean’s list; I was in line for the award for the overall best counting student as well as that of the university scholar’s award. With that, the big firms would continue to woo you. Despite the five job offers, I was equally offered employment by IBM and others. Professor Jesse called me and advised that I should not be arrogant. He asked that I remove my name from the career placement centre because, according to him, the more they saw my grades, the more I would be sought after. He said that might hinder other accounting graduates from being recruited and that the faculty wanted as many accounting graduates as possible to be recruited by the big companies. So I went and removed it. Usually, there was a benchmark for recruitments by the big professional accounting firms and they didn’t go beneath that. I got an offer of $20,000, with travelling allowances and all that. It was big money for me at the time.
But when Arthur Young saw the money I was offered, they offered an additional $3,000. My adviser told me to consider an offer that would make me function effectively in my country, particularly given that the country is blessed with crude oil. I wondered what I would be coming back to do. The career placement officer called me again and asked me what I wanted to do. I said they just spoke to me from my department.
Unlike what happens here, universities in America prepare the students for the future; how to dress, how to face job interviews. The third day after that, Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, now Deloitte and Touche Consulting Group, gave me another offer. They said they were not just going to hire me, but develop me. They asked me to take the salary I was being offered or forget about the job. I went back to Professor Jesse and said: ‘Look at what these people are offering, I would rather go to Arthur Andersen because they were offering to pay more’. But he said that I should not. He said he had always advised me that my career and professional development were more important. He said Delloite had clients like General Motors, Procter and Gamble, National Oil and worked with Aramco Exxon, etc. He said I should consider that my country has crude oil and I might want to return someday. He said I should consider a firm with clients in anufacturing and oil sectors than Arthur Andersen, which only dealt with financial institutions and banks.

I took to his advice. I resumed work at Deloitte training school in June 1979. By April 1979, when I was graduating, I had gotten my future charted. And that was the greatest thing I achieved in America.
Tunde Badejo was still looking for a job. As a honours student, I was there at the high table with the Dean, President of the college and so on, while the rest of the graduands were on the lower platform. So, when they called my friend, Tunde Badejo’s name, he refused to get up because they mispronounced his name and called him ‘Tunde Badeho’. He refused to get up. I was laughing at him from the high table and was saying: ‘You see, I told you we would graduate at the same time.’ I later stood from where I was seated and whispered to the event handler that his name is Badejo and not Badeho. It was not until they called the name correctly that he stood up.

*Why did you opt to study Accounting?*

Sincerely, it was accidental. It was the university placement. I was good in Mathematics and business courses. In fact, if I were to choose a career for myself, I would have chosen marketing. I know Tunde was placed in the Mathematics department also by the university. I came in with A grades and I had nothing less than A+ in Accounting and Statistics.

*How did you get into Mobil?*

At Deloitte and Touche, I chose to travel more than 80 per cent of my working years there. And that is because if a staff chose to travel, he would make more money because he would get travel allowances. That got me into National Oil, which became the Joint Venture Partner of Aramco Oil in Saudi Arabia, which is like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. We had gone there to set up their accounting and auditing system. It was while on that service that I got my financial break. When I returned to the United States, my employers gave me a huge bonus, which instantly turned me into a millionaire.

*How much was that?*

The bonus was $850,000, before taxes. My salaries were also being paid into the bank and I was not touching them. At the time, my salary deposits in the bank had risen to about $1.8 million.

*You didn’t freak out?*

No. This is because I had a strong grasp of financial matters. I was happy. I bought a house from the money and invested the rest in the US. I was living well. I was living in one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the south of Chicago.
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Strongdickfresh:
Let's not be in hurry to make decision that will make Nigerians experience more hardship. Our collective concern should gear toward removing APC, Buhari and Tinubu from power.

We must work collectively and tirelessly to ensure APC/Tinubu does not win the 2023 presidential election. Our major concern is to stop APC/Tinubu from becoming the head of affairs in Nigeria come 2023.

You will all fail in shaa Allah. Tinubu will win with a landslide. You will all be shocked.

4/5 people mobilised by Igbo traders in kaduna. We have seen your hands. You shall know the truth on Election Day. See how they are checking their backs to make sure nobody is coming to lynch them lol.

Many of the Peter Obi wailers here are just starkly ignorant or completely mischievous or both. Peter Obi advised the sale to GENCOs and Discos who had no money to rescue the system. They made laws to bind the hands of Buhari and Fashola to prevent them from being sacked. How is that the problem of Buhari or Fashola? Peter Obi and his PDP crooks collected bribes and recommended insolvent people to purchase our national assets so as to kill them. And the same Peter Obi is complaining about no light. He is a crook and he is a scammer. We don’t need these crooks as leaders in NIGERIA.

PaChukwudi44:
Bros did Tinubu commit perjury? Did he attend the primary and secondary schools he declared under oath in 1999? That is the bone of contention not Chicago certificate

Go and ask the Supreme Court!!! Sue him for perjury.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Y'all even have the time in responding to Dumbos who keep asking silly dumb questions...
I mean how can you be trolling this same dude just for declaring his ambition..vile words.. insults ain't the way to promote ya candidate..so sick..

I can bet ya..with this information some Dumbos will keep disturbing the whole place with their unnecessary noise..

Meanwhile their dumb leader graduated with a third class after schooling for record 10 years for a BA degree that’s meant to for 4 years. That dullard is who they are all running about with, wanting to make him president over Nobel laureate and professors.

GoooodHardDick:
He didn't go to school but wants to rule Nigeria. That druggie's brain should be checked. This is exactly Why Nigeria needs peter Obi to rescue this country from this corrupt thieves

In a sane society, the likes of Tinubu and Atiku wouldn't even be allowed to contest in any public office at all.. Nigerians says NO to Old cargos!!!!!.

Peter Obi is a scam, a drug baron and a dullard who came out with 3rd class in phylosophy after 10 years in school for a 4 year course. What a shame to humanity. He will never be president.

He does not have to show certificate. That’s what Supreme Court judgement says. He just needs to prove he went to primary school. And Nigerian constitution is very backward. We should be demanding for the highest, not the lowest certificate. I have been to the highest levels of learning, yet I could not remember obtaining my primary school certificate, and nobody has ever asked me for that. They need to amend the constitution to align with modernity.

BlazinGlory40:
Dude provide proof and don’t run on propaganda. Do you know that OBJ and GEJ didn’t win NW and NE against buhari yet they still won? So relax and drink cold water.

Let’s wait and see!!!

Foolishbuhari:
Then why did he exonerate them? You see you people ehn, there's enough dirt to dig up on your sick candidate. We will publish all the panel findings on OPC and tifnubu's complicity, translate it into hausa, and propagate it in the north

Empty threats!!! You have nothing to dig out. Go ahead.

OfoIgbo:
Christians are reading and seeing how you Muslims and anti-christian people are trying to undermine the only Christian candidate of a major movement in the coming election.

Christians may take this personally and punish Kwankwaso, Tinubu and Atiku.

Christians remember how Muslim terrorists have been killing Christians in their place of worship, and now this assault on Obi, to ensure that Christians are crushed politically in Nigeria

You are talking arrant nonsense!!! I am not here playing any religious card. I do not like Atiku because his boss Obasanjo has stated that he is fantastically corrupt. Neither do I support Kwakanso because he has not transformed Kano like Tinubu did for Lagos. Tinubu is also married to an RCCG pastor and that should have been a sour point if I am religiously inclined. I am only supporting Tinubu because he has the best records of past achievements. That’s all I care for. And talking of terrorists, those devils have killed more Muslims than Christians in NIGERIA. They have killed Muslims in large numbers during Friday Jumuah service in Kano and other places. So you cannot cry more than the bereaved Muslims. We don’t consider them as Muslims because a Muslim must not kill innocent people. You cannot use sentiments to bring Peter Obi in through the backdoor. He is a scam. Look for another good Christian leader and we will support him. I supported Awolowo and my father used to take me to his campaigns. We are not bigots like you.

:"I met Bola Ahmed Tinubu first time when we shortlisted his name at Mobil Oil. He appeared for the interview and we scrutinised his credentials. We referred all his credentials to the awarding institutions and we found out at Mobil that they were genuine and authentic. He would never have been employed by our organisation if any, no matter how minute, of his credentials was found wanting.

"We employed him as senior Auditor. Few years later, Tinubu carried out a very comprehensive audit like never before which indicted many Directors including the MD of Mobil, and this led to the suspension of the MD. The company now needed a new Treasurer who will renew the battered image of the company which came about as a result of Tinubu’s Audit, so we the remaining Directors thought that only the man who did the audit was in best position to help the company out. And he was appointed as the Treasurer.

"Few years later, he came to meet me that he would want to resign from the company to join politics so that he can serve his people and humanity. He was already looking very unstoppable. That was how he left Mobil and joined Politics."

PIUS AKINYELURE
Tinubu’s Boss at Mobil EXXON.

Foolishbuhari:
Do you know it was tifnubu who master minded OPC killing of Northerners in Lagos in 2002? He justified it then and said he didn’t believe in one Nigeria!

Tifnubu is a Yoruba agenda which is why they have nothing else to campaign by but "emi lo Kan". Nigerians be wise o!

You are borne liar. Tinubu never identified with OPC. That’s why Ganiu Adams aligned with PDP government.

Prince081:
Not interested.
We have the numbers.
We cannot have 16 straight years run by a section of the country. Nobody is a second class citizen here.

Where’s the numbers? In your dream. How many obi supporters do you have in the north?

ERCROSS:
We need to see the real thread. Prophecies are not usually this detailed. This is clearly a case of HTML editing, not even Photoshop

I was almost saying that. Fake prophecy. The truth is Tinubu did not buy his way with most of the delegates. His popularity won the primary. This alone tells me it’s a fake prophecy from Peter Obi wailer. Lol!!!

Those of you asking for proof will get it at the results of elections lol. Peter Obi is a scam. I have always said it. He is the IPOB commander.

tayo60:
A man should really study and know the woman he is marrying . A lady with many body counts before marriage can't never be faithful, and moreso, women pretend a lot. Do an undercover investigation about her from friends, neighbors etc before you marry her. So also, a woman who fears God cannot cheat in marriage.

Most women tell lies about body count now. They know you will form an opinion immediately they mention > 10 men, then all hope is lost. Yes I agree completely that the fear of God is still highly important in their behaviour. Because they know that God is watching if their husband or other people are not there to watch. There’s definitely no fear of God in any lady that cheats.

tobby98:
A northerner first is their agenda…they have in them better options like Atiku and Kwankwaso.

And as for the video, you can click on the link up there

We shall see. It’s a matter of time.

Only God decides whom He wants. Not IPOB wailers. We shall see whom God wants soon.

No northerner is voting Peter Obi. These wailers should just go and sit down.

tobby98:
Yesterday, Prof Zulum urged Borno state indigene to vote for Tinubu APC in the next coming election, the response he got from them was "bamuso, "we don't want him", uba nka, uba nka; your father, your father......" Real revolution is imminent. Get your PVC, Peter Obi is the answer to some of our problems, Labour party is the party. A new Nigeria is possible.

Liar!!! Where is your evidence? Is it Atiku they will vote for? Or is it Peter Obi? You are a borne liar.

Tinubu is an EBORA (jinn). Nobody wins against a spirit. Peter Obi Pandora wailers must be ready to bang their heads against the rock in this election.

I cannot see some states here: can someone show me where Facebook State, Nairaland State and Twitter states are located on this map? I am pretty sure they would have registered over 1 billion active voters in them alone. Lol. With that, Peter Obi is sure to win the election. Lol!!!

LeoDeKing:
Are you aware Aba made "engrish" is not allowed on this forum?

Wodawise we declare vawulence here on NL.

richie240:
Nwaldeato nwokem, we are waiting for ur own phantom 'update' biko!
Don't tell us u ran out of data o, ehn-ehn!



Today is d 'tomorrow' u promised us, so where is ur phantom 'further updates'?


https://www.nairaland.com/7197608/im-currently-chicago#114173148

Why are you wasting your time on people whose education was a wasted money venture by their parents? Anyone who believes he is educated can never query if Tinubu was educated after hearing about the number of multinational companies he worked with.

I find these rebuttal as misleading and false. Contrary to their false assertions, those things were true. Lagos state had single treasury account before Jonathan. Lagos held economic summit before federal government started it. Lagos had the first independent power plant. Lagos is the only state whose allocation was withheld. No other states had that. These are misleading rebuttal and full of lies.

wiseoneking:
Everytime, Lagos Lagos, Lagos as of we don't have any other state in the SW apart from the do called Nomansland . How about Ekiti, oshogbo, iragbiji. Lagos wasn't under western region you know. It used to be the capital of Nigeria built with Niger delta oil. Moreover, the igbos should be between at least 25% of Lagos and at most 35% averaging huge 30% apart from non yorubas indigenous people. One outstanding thing about Obi's governance is that ANAMBRA state lead the pack in education with the strongest public schools in Nigeria. Go through your unity school cut off mark, check out states with the highest graduates in medicine, law and in Engineering, check out state with the highest Jamb enrollment in the past three decades where they remain on top three. Don't come here and shout that I am putting out figures, just goggle Punch and search out well. Apart from imo state that remains top in education in Nigeria in all spheres, no other states can compete with ANAMBRA state.
Check out states that have the best WAEC/JAMB students more than any other states. Don't ever make the lousy noise about the highest number of professors which most of you had attributed to Ekiti. In Ekiti website, I read they have the 4th highest number of professors. after Imo state, ANAMBRA leads in the number of professors in Nigeria, then Delta, Ekiti, ondo and kwara state.
Today remain the second most urbanised state in Nigeria after federal government made Lagos.

Check out states with their students having won more world international competition than any other states. Let me stop here

I tell you what, why don’t you stay in Anambra and develop the place? Why come to Lagos? How many professors are from Anamabra? How many top rate scientists and award winning economists and educationists are from Anambra? Why is Anambra struggling to get up with high WAEC pass rate? You say Lagos is no man’s land, when you get your Biafra, come and do business for free in Lagos and let’s see. We talk of Lagos because that’s why Tinubu held as Governor. Where Obi was Governor there’s nothing to talk about. High WAEC pass rate is due to perfected cheating in special centres. Otherwise they should be making rockets and travelling to the moon by now. They should be having developments in all areas if they have egg heads. Their governors should not be looters and third class graduates like Obi.

SKIBiNSKI:
is this rubbish supposed to make sense. I wonder what kinda rusty brain you have, that is if you have any.

You are in sifiaaa pain. Lol!!!

SKIBiNSKI:
Yea! If they demostrate, You are the ignoramus here, it doesn't matter if he is 35, 22, or 50 years old, Ekweremmadu will still be charged for HUMAN trafficking, people can be trafficked regardless of their ages, Ekweremmadu is a person in power who used his wealth and inflluence to traffick a HUMAN into the UK.

I Bet you $1000 Ekweremmadu will go to jail. He is not the first to be charged and jailed under human trafficking act. That is why he was denied bail. You still don't get it!! He can buy all the lawyers in law land he will go to prison, if his lawyers were that great they shoulda being able to secure his bail.

I can see why you are wailing that your kinsman must be jailed. Because he insisted that Obi cannot win on the east. He will be released to disgraced all Peter Obi followers.

Creditalerts:
Rubbish, all these old political grandpa that should be resting with their looted fund ,I'm obidient is a movement the youth are wiser now.he is one of the major problems we have in nigeria just imagine what he said IT IS MY TURN TO RULE his manifesto is to loot and everything about him is based on lies right from when he assisted buhari to promise us so many unfulfilled lies ,God will fight you tinubu I swear.

Buhari pro max

The person that’s more likely to loot is Peter Obi. Because he is not as rich as Tinubu. Peter Obi has nothing practical to offer NIGERIA other than talk. And talk is cheap. He cannot do, he only talks.

SKIBiNSKI:
His legal team cannot save him, human Trafficking is a big issue against the law in the UK. The UK has being having problems with Nigerian Elites trafficking people into the UK for organ harvesting. It doesn't matter if the boy/man is 22,21,15 or 47 years old. He was still trafficked into the UK by Ekweremadu.

Please keep quiet if you are ignorant. If they demonstrate that he is adult and he consented to the procedure and proper processes were followed, he will go free.

Fahdiga:
Among all the contestants the people's choice Peter Obi is the best man for the job. Atiku the Cameroonian is too corrupt to be entrusted with the key to our treasury and besides for equity sake power should rotate to the south. When you talk about Yekini Amoda Ogunlere aka Bola Tinubu then you instantly know that Nigeria will collapse if he mistakenly wins the presidency. Yekini Amoda Ogunlere aka Bola Tinubu is a mysterious man. Everything about him is shrouded in topmost secrecy. He is old and sick too. Nigerians can't afford to jump from frying pan to fire in 2023 hence the reason why everyone is clamouring for Peter Obi

Peter Obi is corrupt, a money launderer, Pandora file member, drug Lord and liar about his qualifications - hit third class after 10 years of phylosophy degree. He is dubious and dangerous as he used government money for family business. He is not fit to be a leader. He also supports IPOB and has no record of past achievements.