Subomi Balogun: God Has Given Me Everything at 85 via thisdaylive
Otunba Subomi Balogun is the founder of First City Monument Bank Group and Olori Omoba of Ijebuland. Balogun, an accomplished banker and philanthropist, who also is the head, Christain laities in Ijebuland, turned 85 recently.T
Imagine for a moment, the several thousands of Nigerians, even foreigners that have been provided platforms to express their skills and talents because someone had provided a platform. Think for a moment, all the difference that has been made because one decided to, not only dream but fight to accomplish the dreams. These are why, as he adds another year this season, the bells cannot but toll, and the citations cannot but roll, for the impact that he has made and continues to make in life.
The paradigm shift in philosophical focus happened while he was schooling at Igbobi College, and after school, Subomi took up employment as a class room teacher, helping to groom the future hope of the nation as at that time. Thereafter, he left the shores of the land for the United Kingdom where he studied law at the London School of Economics.
Like it is said, you cannot bottle a man of vision, and this was what precipitated Subomi Balogun’s move to leave, a move that culminated in the founding of a Broking and Issuing House that was shortly to become a household name – City Securities. Its cutting-edge delivery saw to it netting business relationships with equally bluechip oil service firms and institutions of the time like Mobil, Texaco and Total.
Otunba Subomi endowed, perpetually, an annual award of scholarships to the best students in Muslim College, Ijebu-Ode in honour of his late father; and also set up another scholarship endowment in honour of his mother known as “Iye Subomi Scholarship”; an endowment at the Nigerian School for the Blind at Oshodi, as well as an Annual National Marathon Championship for Disabled Athletes.
If you want to know where all the expertise had come from, and the foundation for all the favours that his life has experienced, he is quick to respond, “my God , the good Lord has done it all. God has given me everything”, up to how he was able to get the kind of extremely supportive and understanding wife that he has, given that it is somewhat challenging to make it in the corporate world without a peaceful and cooperative home front. Otunba Balogun says of his wife: “God gave her to me.
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