Abundance in Future – Today’s Finest Banks in Nigeria Were Born During An Economic Miry Clay

Young People, there is abundance in the future. The possibilities of the future are only limited by the finite knowledge of today. Fill your mind with optimism, and a great energy to achieve will come.

A mind chained in hopelessness is lost, seeing darkness even in the brightest rays of the sun. I challenge you to a game of LIFE. And for that to happen, find a way to LIVE your Life, not your friend’s, classmate’s or anyone. Yes, a purpose-driven life, not tossed around like a feather in a river.

Many of you may be young. Ask your parents about the late 1980s when cassava mosaic disease destroyed a core agro product in most parts of Nigeria. I was a teenager in a village – and it was largely a famine with no garri and all the by-products of cassava. As that was happening, the SAP programme was unleashed, punting any hope. Yet, in the deepest of that miry clay, green pastures emerged.

Do you know that Zenith Bank, GTBank, Access Bank(Diamond Bank), UBA (STB), etc were all started at one of the lowest moments in Nigeria’s economic history? Finance Houses were collapsing here and there, but out of those rubbles, men rose and built the pillars of today’s Nigerian banking. I learnt about that history as I was graduating from FUTO in 1998 as I researched my final year seminar – Human-Implantable Biochip Card Systems for Payments.

Yes, even as far back then, we discussed things which the current fintech world has not gotten to. My supervisor, Prof ENC Okafor, at the end of the seminar asked “Do you believe what you just presented?”. People, the Biblical “666” and how humans would be implanted with chips stole the day after the presentation.

See a world ahead. Blossom! The future is full of abundance because more greener pastures remain. #believe

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