Tolulope Oluwaseun Ahmed is a first-class (Hons) graduate of Engineering Physics, with the highest CGPA in the faculty of Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (2009/2010).
He’s an academic intelligence coach, who has helped many people achieve excellent results in life and academics. He had his Masters degree from the University of Nicosia Cyprus, Europe.
Tell us a brief odyssey of your life so far?
I had a quite wretched background. I was born into a family of four—one girl and three boys at Aramoko Ekiti State.
We moved to Lagos when I was two (around the same time my Dad became a Christian). We lived in a one-room in Lagos.
Drinking garri was normal (my nickname in school was Tolulope Olugarri, garri supplier).
I left primary school in primary 4 and went straight to secondary school (without doing common entrance).
Also, I left secondary school at SS2 and went straight to the university (OAU) where I studied Engineering Physics and graduated as the best in the faculty. I later did my masters online at the University of Nicosia Cyprus, Europe.
After my academic achievement, I wrote my first book, 10 Laws of Academic Excellence, in order to help others achieve the same.
I later founded ValuePlus Inc. (a platform for reproducing achievements in people) so I can duplicate my achievements in people on a bigger scale.
Since then, we’ve continued to create educational products (books, games, audios, videos, and seminars) that will help people achieve what we’ve achieved.
Tolulope Ahmed, ValuePlus Founder & CEO
You had a first-class when you graduated from University. How were you able to achieve this?
I had a clear goal, and kept it always before me. Because of this focus, I attracted people, resources, and circumstances that ultimately make all things work together to make the vision a reality. The details of how I achieved this was detailed in my first book, 10 Laws of Academic Excellence of which we’ve sold over produced hundreds of known first class graduates in five years.
From your dressing, it is obvious you are a Pastor (A name people perceived to be devoted Christian are mostly called). Did you become a devoted Christian while on Campus or after Campus?
I became a Christian before I got into the campus, became devoted at the OAU pre-degree programme.
How did the Christ-like (Christian) characters influence your self-coordination, intra and inter Personal relationship on Campus?
It made me very purposeful and focused.
Can your first class be attributed to this?
Not exactly. I would say it’s a factor, in that, God’s Word made me to be amazingly focused. But I would be wrong to say that being a Christian is what makes a person graduate with first class.
The things responsible for my first class are the things I wrote in my first book and I know they work because we’ve produced hundreds of first class graduates using those factors.
Please share with us
I’ll share three of those things (in 10 Laws of Academic Excellence) that got me, my first class.
1. Clear Academic Goal: By the laws of physics, “If you think and talk in terms of your end result most of the time, things will rearrange itself to make it eventually happen”.
So, I got my departmental handbook, and I cumulated my CGPA in advance and obtained my graduating CGPA. I kept tracking my progress until I achieved it.
2. Daily Past Questions: “If all you do from now till the day of exam is to answer past question daily, then you’ll likely answer all the questions in the exam and score 100%”.
3. Academic Mentoring: I always got materials of senior colleagues and questions from lecturers to prepare in accordance with what is required by the department.
Some students do complain that lack of fund is the major reason they could not graduate with the CGPA of their choice which they are sure they are capable of had it been adequate fund was available for them. What is your take on this? Are you from a rich, middle class or Poor home/background?
I am from a poor (wretched) background. Whatever is your excuse for not achieving a result shows what you’re dependent on.
You are the one responsible for your result. If the fund is a challenge, then learn how to get it. There are scholarship opportunities to apply for.
Tolulope Ahmed
How did you handle financial difficulties in school?
Although I didn’t get any scholarship during my time on campus, I did part-time jobs and created different streams of income apart from what my parent gave me. I also wrote 7 ways I was creating income streams as a student in the same book.
Hmmm! This is a sensitive question, but I was prompted to ask. Did you have girlfriend(s) while in school?
No. I didn’t. I had female friends. But I wasn’t ready to build a marriage relationship then.
Did this contributed to your first class grade?
No. If I had started building a marriage relationship while on campus, I would still have finished with a first-class.
I remember someone was concerned for my first class when I was made the UJCM pre-degree fellowship pastor.
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And I told the person upfront, it can never affect my first class because I was working according to laws.
Are you currently working with your certificate?
No.
Why? And what are you currently doing for a living?
Because I set out to do business. I currently drive a platform called ValuePlus where we reproduce achievements in others.
I reproduce achievements in people for a living J. I’ve written four books, created one educational game and run seminars on campuses.
ValuePlus now has a publishing firm, a computer centre, a media outfit, and an educational centre for certification training.
Kindly tell us! How has life been after school especially for a first-class graduate with a lot of potentials to offer?
First, in my experience, there’s a huge honour and loads of opportunities for a first-class graduate.
I’ve been invited to places I would not have dreamt of. I received awards, I’ve given speeches amongst top executives and professors.
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I’ve been invited to speak by the wife of the former governor of Oyo State, I’ve travelled to very far states in the country because people wanted to hear me speak. I’ve been offered jobs I denied because I wanted to do my thing.
How did you handle(d) the nightmare and popular song of ‘no work out there’?
Well, there may be not too many jobs out there, but there’s too many work out there to do. A man with a vision has too much to do already. A man without a vision has to be given work to do by the man with vision.
If you are allowed to desire one thing in life, what would it be?
To create a revolutionary product or invention that will change the entire world and lead it into the next “age”.
What would you study if given a chance to start your University education again?
Physics with Financial and Business Intelligence
Why?
Physics because it sharpens your intelligence and help you see the world with objective reality. Financial Intelligence because the world is financially calibrated and it’s best to see the world through the eyes of finance.
What is the type of future you would like to see in generations ahead, your generation and coming generations?
I would like to see a generation that think in objective reality, embraces science, and not buried in religion. Religion is slowly undermining the average Nigerian’s intelligence level.
What are your parents’ impact on your education?
Huge. My parents didn’t have a very strong education but they did everything in their power to ensure I got the best of education. It was only my masters’ program that was financed by me, they financed it all.
We heard tell you have published books you authored. They are like how many and what are there names?
Technically, I have written three books.
1. 10 Laws of Academic Excellence (for higher institutions), 2011 (students’ #1 Guide book for personal and academic excellence).
2. Financial statement, 2013 (How to play your financial figures forward).
3. 10 Laws of Academic Excellence (for secondary schools), 2015
*Graduating CGPA, 2015, (workbook for 10 Laws of Academic Excellence).
What made you venture into writing and motivational speaking?
I just wanted to help people achieve what I have achieved. I write and speak because I want others to have the same results I’ve had.
That’s why I only speak about what I’ve done and have helped others do.
I don’t see myself as a motivational speaker but as someone with a genuine desire to reproduce my achievements in others.
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