Nigerian socialite and hotel magnet, Mr. Obi Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana, who turned 50 today, has said that his family is his greatest achievement and not in business.
The business maestro said this in a post on his official Facebook page on Saturday.
Obi Cubana said: “My greatest achievement isn’t in business… it’s here with them. My reason. My anchor. My joy”.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Sun Newspaper, Cubana reflected on what life has taught him at 50, his deepest regrets in life, his saddest moments, how he has escaped sex scandal, why he has not joined politics, and on sundry other issues.
He also spoke on what it takes to survive in a hostile business environment like Nigeria as well as the boundless opportunities to make it big in the country.
“Life has taught me that no matter the disappointments you meet in life, the best investments are still in human beings. If you see what has been going on for the past 50 days in my life, people from all over the world, coming to support, coming to show presence, coming to show love, however big or small, not as if they don’t know what to do with their resources or their time, but they feel that they have to connect to this grace and to acknowledge this person.
“Some of these things we do might not be physical, and not even there on the social media, but because people we do them for know, they will recognise and that is why everybody took out en masse to say we align, identify with you, or to do things with me, or show gratitude for the things we have done with them.
“I think it tells you something that, however it is, whether written or not, whether seen or not, there must be something this person is doing right over these years”, the interview partly reads.
Speaking on harsh business environment in Nigeria, Obi said: “There is nothing we have not seen. But I will tell you something, I have travelled round the world, and I have also met people who have lived abroad, but there is no place like home. There is no place like Nigeria. It has a lot of opportunities. There might be some negatives in Nigeria like pull-him-down syndrome, which is very rampant.
“It is not everyone that is smiling with you that is your friend, or that wishes you well. But if you survive it, good, you just have to use that street knowledge and street credibility to navigate certain things. Be nice to people that even when they apply it on you, somebody will say, no, please leave this one for me. It has happened to me several times when some people I have done something with, and I have been nice to… It could be where you have been pencilled down for destruction and somebody rescued you. I have been in that situation several times”.
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