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| Olaoluwa Okelola and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg |
Nigeria is blessed with
creative and brilliant minds. The story of Olaoluwa Okelola shows how a young
but talented man can achieve success by being outstanding in his own way.
Nigerian born Okelola is
currently living in San Francisco, the USA, and working as a software engineer
for social media giant Facebook. But Olaoluwa’s success is not just pure luck
but the result of good education and hard work.
From September 1996 till
December 2000, the boy attended the International School in Ibadan, the Oyo
state capital. This school is a co-educational institution established by the
University of Ibadan in 1963. It was the first of its kind in Nigeria and was
founded to provide an environment where children both from within and outside
Nigeria could live and learn together thereby fostering racial integration,
international friendship and unity.
In 2007 Olaoluwa Okelola
graduared from Howard University. Later, Olaoluwa went to Avi-Cenna
International School in Lagos and finished his secondary education in 2002. He
continued his education at Howard University, Washington DC, where he studied
systems and computer science.
In January 2005, Ola joined Microsoft as
explorer intern, but left it in August the same year for Google where he worked
as an engineering intern. In 2007, he joined Facebook and he has been working
there up till date.
Olaoluwa Okelola and his
family Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and Okelola seem to be enjoying a
great working relationship. Zuckerberg, who is currently the 6th richest man in
the world, has recently shared a picture from a prank played on him by his
employee.
Let’s wish Olaoluwa good luck as he is making all Nigerians proud of him
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