Oluyemisi Oluremi Obilade Quotes

I was born over 58 years ago to an average family, my father was a teacher and my mother worked in the hospital. I was born in Ile Ogbo, Osun State.

Women in leadership need to be prepared for challenges. Also, other women in leadership need to mentor younger women so as to prepare them for leadership. Leadership is not easy for a woman.

When the world of people know what you stand for, your life becomes easier. When you stand for God there is a price to pay. You can work among corrupt people and not be corrupted.

There were lots of challenges. There were days when I didn’t have money; days when my school fees were delayed. I didn’t have a lot of things that my mates had but I knew I was going to have them one day as I knew that with God on my side, I was going to work hard and ensure that those things I didn’t have then, I could have them when working so I got stuck to school.

He encouraged me to fly, to spread my wings. I was determined to fly, I was not going to allow anything to kill my dreams and fortunately, he shared that.

I am investing in you, this is where the children of successful and important people shop, this is where my grandchildren will shop as a matter of right because you will be able to bring them here. So, I held on to that. Kingsway, to me was a dream of economic empowerment. It was a dream of handing over a better future to my children.

They never made me believe I was inferior to anybody. So, I grew up believing that I was equal to everybody. I don’t have any inferiority complex. They never made me believe I could not achieve my dreams. My parents taught me to reach for the sky, to break the glass ceilings. I was taught early that with the help of God.

We must also address equity more than equality. This will provide a ladder for women to succeed.

I happened to come from grandmothers and a mother who were not apologetic about being women.

A nation with a large number of uneducated citizens cannot develop. Education is the foundation for development.

We must address the socialisation process that gives less worth to the girl-child. Our society from birth has conferred a subordinate role on the girl-child. We must also address equity more than equality. This will provide a ladder for women to succeed.

I also believe that we must walk the talk. If you talk of honesty, integrity, people must see it in you

I don’t shy away from responsibilities but for me, it is important to be clear on the sort of responsibility.

If you don’t train and retrain teachers, education will continue to be comatose; students will continue to fail woefully and development may not be possible.

Teachers should be trained and retrained. This should be done regularly. If teachers who are key factors in schools are left out, then we should not expect that pupils would perform very well.