The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has shared an inspiring story of how he got a surprise gift from a typist he once worked with while he was a lecturer at the Department of Law in the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
Osinabjo , who took to his personal Twitter handle, on Wednesday, went down memory lane, explaining how the young typist, Adereni worked so hard and exhibited much diligence than his other typists.
The Vice President narrating the importance of diligence to work, said, years later, he recommended Adereni for a secretarial job position at a court in Netherlands, when the job opportunity came.
Osinbajo said, Adereni as a form of appreciation, surprised him with the car gift on his 60th birthday celebration early this year, 2017.
Read Osinbajo’s tweet and post on Facebook below…
While I was teaching at the University of Lagos, as a young lecturer, in the department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law, there were 3 typists in the department. The chief typist, senior typist, and the junior typist. Because in those days before laptops and personal computers, typists in universities had to do a lot of work and they were very important because you always needed to type all your materials.
When there was work to do, what l discovered was that the chief typist would disappear. He works only till 4 pm. The senior typist would be nowhere to be found. But a gentleman called Adereni the junior typist, who only had his school certificate, was remarkably hardworking. Sometimes I would drop him off at his home at 1am.
Years after I was working as an adviser to the then Attorney-General of the Federation Hon. Bola Ajibola, who later became a judge of the World Court. While in the court at The Hague, in the Netherlands, one day he called me and asked if I could recommend a good secretary who is hard working and could do long judgments. I had three options, chief typist, senior or this junior typist, but the junior typist at a time had only school certificate, he didn’t have any other qualification but l choose him. He got to the Hague, and typically worked hard and diligently. Every judge in the court wanted him to work with them. He later moved his family over to the Hague and got degrees and made a good living for himself. One day he remembered me and actually sent me a car.
