Olusola Adedoyin-Alao’s New Attainment
For ex-banker, Olusola Adedoyin-Alao, achieving one’s life dream is the biggest of all things. The Kwara State-born and daughter of the billionaire business magnate, Samuel Adedoyin, is a determined woman. She sticks to her dream, and for her, no matter the frustrations or challenges, the aspiration must be accomplished.
Adedoyin-Alao, who is also a queen to His Royal Majesty Oba Olusola Alao, Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, recently attained one of her heart desires; she got her PhD from the Department of Business Administration at the University of Lagos.
For the determined and hard-working Olori, nothing is truer than the words of Brandon Travis Ciaccio: “The pursuit of knowledge is never-ending. The day you stop seeking knowledge is the day you stop growing.’’
To say she was elated over her latest attainment is stating the obvious; she was simply over the moon with joy as she splashed the graduation ceremony on all her social media handles adorned in her gown.
Do you blame her? Please pardon her if you do. She has tasted the serio-comic side of life, almost in equal measures.
While it will be wrong to say that life has been unfair to her, she had, however, been buffeted, at different times in the past, with the blustering winds of vicissitude.
Indeed, the mere mention of her name would evoke pity, particularly among the few who know her story.
Mercifully, the former Managing Director of the defunct City Express Bank once battled with cancer. She survived the dreaded disease to the disbelief of those who had written her off. She was hovering between life and death, having been laid up with cancer. No one, including her doctors, believed she could survive it. They said she had only a few days left on the surface of the earth.
But the ordained pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, held on to her faith in God and she miraculously survived the killer ailment.
The President of MariaSam Foundation also recorded another tragedy when the bank collapsed in the face of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, new regulations.
Shortly afterwards, her career was threatened when City Express Bank failed to survive the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s new regulations. But the graduate of Marketing/Accounting from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia did not despair.
Though she felt as if her life had come to an end. Yet, she kept her head up and she moved on.
She is indeed a true definition of grace and miracle as she had a set of twins at the age of 59.
