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Alaba Lawson Quotes

1951–2023 Nigeria

Alaba Oluwaseun Lawson (18 January 1951 – 28 October 2023) was a Nigerian business magnate and academician. She served as the first female president of NACCIMA and Chairman of the board of the Governing Council, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State.

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I don’t entertain any fear, because I live every day as being tailored by Jehovah God.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Pray and get along with your life.

Teaching is like a calling, you must be trained for it and you must have passion for it.

Many people know you to be an educationist but not many know that you were a big time trader who began at the age of nine.

She never used the cane, but she had another way of doing this. Her countenance when anyone misbehaved was more potent than the cane. Once her countenance changed, one got the message.

There was nothing peculiar about my birth, at least as far as I know.

I was not troublesome but I stood for my right and asked for it. No other student could cheat me and I never gave anyone the chance to cheat. No one could take me for granted.

None at all. We were close to 30 Nigerians who went for that training. Blacks and the whites co-existed in a convivial environment. We were treated like human beings.

It is true. While I was in the secondary, I was a member of the school’s drama and cultural group. I was good at acting and mimicking others. But that divine call changed everything. But I have no regrets at all.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alaba Lawson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.