8. What are you happiest doing, when you’re not working? Sales calls…
9. What do you want to make sure you do before you die? Stop food insecurity in Canada, to close gender gaps and accelerate women's empowerment
10. How do you want people to remember you? I would like to be remembered as a person who made a huge positive difference in the world
11. What are some causes you care about? Women’s Empowerment, Education for Childre, Feeding the Hungry
12. What’s a goal you have for yourself that you want to accomplish in the next year?
13. What would be your personal motto? Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm
to stand in front and became a conductor. And somehow I was able to stop the song. It was like a moving train that needed the driver to be woken up. Unknown to me, Mr. Sofoluwe took note of it.
When he saw me in the corridor of the University of Ibadan, he asked what I was doing there. I explained what had happened and he said: “So bloody what? Is that the end of your life?” This happened way back in 1980. “Pack your things, go back home and see me in the office on Monday,” Mr. Sofoluwe told me. This happened on a Thursday. I went back home. The following Monday I went to NTA as he had instructed. I was interviewed and I got a job at NTA that same week. That was the beginning of my journey into broadcasting. I started as a floor manager in NTA and left years later as a Principal Producer.
Another remarkable thing happened to me when I was in secondary school. I went to the National Theatre with my peers – it wasn’t far from where I was living then. When we got there I saw a group rehearsing and it turned out to include faces that I had seen on television; the Village Headmaster’s cast. I saw Sissy Clara, Garuba, Amebo, quite a number of them. I saw these characters there rehearsing. My friends didn’t know when I stopped following them. I got excited about what I was seeing, summoned the courage and I approached them. I told them I liked what they were doing and they allowed me to sit and watch. So I sat with them there and that was the beginning of my relationship with the Village Headmaster’s cast.