Today's Spotlight: Funke Osibodu
She served as the first female CEO of three banks in Nigeria. They are:
• Merchant Banking Corporation (MBC)
• Ecobank
• Union Bank.
In 2011, she was placed in Financial Times as one of the top 50 world's most powerful business women. And was the only African woman to make the list.
She's currently the Chairman, Advisory Board of University of Lagos Business School
She was formerly chairman/ director in:
• Union Bank, UK
• Citi Investments Ltd (a subsidiary of CitiBank Nigeria)
• Vigeo Group
• BEDC Electricity Plc (formerly Benin Electricity Distribution Company)
• African Finance Corporation (AFC)
• HFC Bank, Ghana
• Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS)
• First Securities Discount House (FSDH)
• MBC Securities Ltd
• ESL Securities Ltd
• Consolidated Discount House Ltd
She's also a pioneer member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)
She is married with three sons.
This JSS 3 boy, Victor Onwubiko, has finished K.A. Stroud’s _Engineering Mathematics_ back to back. He is the best mathematician in the country at the junior secondary level.
He will be competing with students from 154 other countries this week in Rome, Italy, at the fierce International STEM Olympiad competition.
He is a genius, and the world will celebrate him.
The role of industry in a company’s position is so substantial that you’d rather be an average company in a great industry than a great company in an average industry
-Mckinsey
Marrying an ‘ambitious woman’ comes with great responsibility.
For example I had to wake up at 4:00am, cooked, packed her bag for her confrence and even take her to the park. Meanwhile I was fixing her hair till midnight.
Checking her itinerary and I realised she’s got 3 more conferences/meetings before the year runs out. I love the responsibility that comes with marriage, maybe because I love service. I will serve this woman with joy.
Truly marriage is honourable to all.
As we go to Church today in the North, some of us will not return home alive.
Some Churches in the North today will be set ablaze and the media won't report it.
As we carry our Bible and walk down the street to Church, our neighbors will murmur, "INFIDELS" wishing us death.
In some Churches today, in the North, gunmen will enter and fire bullets on people and the media won't report it.
On almost every wall and overhead bridge in the North, you'll see the inscription, "FREE PALESTINE, DEATH TO ZIONIST."
Of course, we are not scared of losing our lives again, since we are used to it and have laid it down at HIS feet.
Many people can't remember the last time they went to church in the North, because they are either scared or they have been victims of extremists.
Some of us have lost loved ones in their hands.
To the Elects in the South, please pray for us. Pray for our safety. Pray for our freedom. Pray for help to locate us from Zion.
PRAY FOR THE NORTHERN CHURCH.
DON'T CEASE TO MENTION US IN YOUR PRAYER.
We are being massacred for our faith. We are hated for saying Jesus is the son of God. We are burnt for calling ourselves children of God.
We are kllled for saying JESUS IS GOD—that's our only crime.
PRAY FOR THE NORTHERN CHURCH.
SpaceX runs on the discoveries of thousands of PhDs in physics, materials science, and propulsion -people who never made any money from their work, and whose names remain unknown.
There's an overwhelming wave of grace sweeping across the world right now. It's visible, palpable, and beyond simple explanation.
When God's hand is upon you, everything changes. Beware of a man or woman whose time has come, it’s unstoppable.