Mr Oluremi Olalekan Michael yesterday described his life experience as not being a bed of roses.
Oluremi, the proprietor of Golden Grace International School, Oluwo, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
In a swift encounter with the “Newsextra publisher Obadimu Adeyemi Veron” Mr Oluremi said he almost
get bullied, lost and poverty almost dropped him out of school due to financial problem by his parents.
Oluremi stated this at his residence in Abeokuta, where he explained the love and cares both teachers and principal always showed him then, based on his character and attitudes. Most especially when i returned the salary of all the teachers that was lost and saw it in the bush.
According to him “After my secondary education, I deprived myself away from attending university due to the fact that my parents warned not to sponsor my education more than their capacity.
I engaged myself in a conductor work, I after sell pure water by the road side to sponsored my secondary education. Oluremi explained.
” I passed through hell before i finished my secondary school, i started with Ansur-ur-deen grammer school, pioneer high school and later finished in ojodu grammar school in Ikeja Lagos. “But all the journey was not smooth for me”.
His words ” I learned fashion designer and later went into surveying work before I proceed my education with the money l gathered to enrolled myself in Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) where I graduated as Public Administration student.
It has always been part of my thoughts to have my own standard private schools in future that I am now, in order to contribute my quotas to the community.
While talking on the standard of the school he said, before we can have an international standard its not a small task, in my school we have qualified teachers that know what the students want at appropriate time, he quoted that “I have MASTERS, BSC and PHD holders in my School.
we give out scholarships to the less privilege students that scored highest mark during our admission, we do this for both my primary and secondary school, Oluremi affirmed.
However we also faced government and parents challenges, but with all this we still give our students a well standard treatment, because coming out with flying colours is what will stands on.
He stressed that the success story of the school, particularly on our students West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) results was always excellent which i always thank God for that, because its parts of school achievements.
Mr Olalekan advised the government to always support every private schools owners because of the economy situation of the country.
” A lot of parents complained and pleaded when its time to pay school fees, lack of adequate electricity is also there, we spent a lot on electricity and other maintenance. So government should also be supportive.