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RISING BEYOND OBSCURITY…THE STORY OF A YOUNG NIGERIAN PROFESSOR IN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA Femi Ojo

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There are few people who motivate us by their boldness, courage, intellect, humility, grit, smartness, unmatched energy, multiple skills, and boundless love for humanity, compassion, composure, wisdom, comradeship, honesty, braveness and selfless service in our society today.   One of such young Nigerians, who is an embodiment of all those characteristics above is Prof. Josiah Adeyemo, a professor of Civil Engineering in faraway   Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa and  an Adjunct Professor of Water Engineering at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya. He is one of the few intellectuals in the world that National Research Foundation (NRF) has rated so high and has about 158 citations from 2009 to 2015 and h index of 7 from Google Scholar and globally quoted in the academic and civil engineering industries respectively. There are many things that make Prof. Josiah Adeyemo thick, a trail blazer and difficult to ignore in the academic wo

THOMAS OLUSHOLA DEBO: THE YOUNG AGRO-ENTREPRENEUR KING MAKING WAVES IN NIGERIA. Femi Ojo

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Agriculture is perhaps and arguably the last frontier and indeed offers hope for economic empowerment and many opportunities for Nigeria and Africa as a whole. The great potentials in this sector are enormous but unfortunately many of our young Nigerians (including yours truly) are sitting on this gold-mine complaining and frustrated about how horrible the economy of our nation has turned out to be.    But in faraway town of Ogbomoso in Oyo State is a young man, Debo Olushola Thomas who is energized and motivated to create something different in agricultural sector. The young agro-entrepreneur who barely managed to complete his secondary school and who could not further in tertiary education,   is today one of the biggest agro- real-estate entrepreneurs in Nigeria.   Though he may not possess any formal degree from any university but he is an encyclopedia on agricultural business and this intellectual attribute has made him to be widely consulted by those who parade loads o