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I have always enjoyed reading blog posts by individuals who share their professional journeys and experiences. Their stories give me an idea of the sacrifices and the trade-offs they faced. They show the nights of uncertainty and the mornings of assurance, the crossroads of decision making and the thoughts that informed their later decisions. After a decade of active work professionally, I now want to pay this forward by sharing my own journey. I hope it inspires someone somewhere on the face of the earth, especially the Davids who will have to face Goliaths on their own paths. I consider my own journey as a metaphor of David, marked by conquering Goliaths at different stages. This is the core of my blog posts.

I spent the first eighteen years of my life in the northern Nigeria. I was born in Yola in the North-East of Nigeria. My parents moved to Kaduna in the North-West when I was about two years old. After a while, destiny moved them back to Yola where they had my remaining five siblings. I attended Basic Nursery and Primary School for elementary school. After completing elementary school, I moved to Government Secondary School Luggere for junior high school and later completed senior high school at Government Secondary School Doubeli. When it was time for university education, I left Yola by faith and moved to Calabar in the South-South to attend the University of Calabar. There, I completed a double honours degree in Business Education and Accounting. I was fortunate to finish at the top of my class and then proceeded to Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan in the South-West, to complete a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship Education. After my bachelor’s degree, I spent about a decade working within industry and academia. This had been my dream professional life since high school. I fell in love with generating knowledge through research, sharing this knowledge through teaching, and applying it outside the walls of the university to relevant economic spheres. It has been very fulfilling walking this path.

The first half of my decade of work was in Nigeria with occasional travels outside the country. During the second half, I moved fully to live in Kigali, Rwanda with my family. From Rwanda, I made a very difficult but fulfilling decision to return to school to complete a terminal degree in Entrepreneurship. This is where I am currently in my journey.

Going forward, I will be writing on a weekly basis to develop the habit of chronicling my professional experiences and the key lessons I draw from them. I do not write as one who has a full grasp of this path. I write as one who has received courage from God to move in faith despite the ups and downs along the way. Once again, welcome to my blog. I hope you find it useful.

….God grants courage to Davids to conquer Goliaths.

 

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