ARE YOU A MAN OF VISION OR A SPECTATOR?
“The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Mike Adenuga
“Hey driver!” echoed a female voice blended with so much pride and pomposity. The driver stopped, half intimidated and half excited. He hadn’t been hired by anyone since morning and has actually been just moving around in one of America’s busiest city, New York City to be precise, under the freezing snow with a keen eye for a prospective passenger.
Mike Adenuga
His short acquaintance and garrulous passenger indicated some luggages that she will want to lift up in the boot of the car. Within some few minutes he has handlifted some stuffs that seems to be ‘heavy weight’ into the taxi car. He opened the passenger door to his high socialite customer and quickly hopped into the driver’s seat. He adjusted the wind mirror and ask his temporal ‘boss’ the point of destination, “New York Botanical Garden”, replied the lady offishly while enjoying the swift ride.
He negotiated a bend in one of the streets in Bronx for an onward journey to one of the best botanical garden in the US that features a landmark greenhouse with rainforest and cactus displays. The rest as they always say is history!
Well, this was Mike Adenuga some years back, nothing has actually change much because the man that eke out a living from moving passengers to their destinations is now saddled with an empire that is somewhat driving Nigeria and Africa to their mobile destinations through the glo mobile network! A look at the unassuming and mega entrepreneur, shows that Otunba, as he is fondly called in his cliché and the ‘brand’ name Chairman by his numerous employees has driven the mobile network communication in Nigeria and Africa glowingly beyond competitors’ imagination.
The ultimate discovery in life is understanding who we really are and the things that drive us. When a man is driven by vision and values, the world will open doors for him where hitherto there were walls.
It is not a sin to start small, but it is a sin to remain small.thanks