I regret not being a billionaire like my contemporaries –80-year-old retired accountant DAUD OLATUNJI How would you describe your childhood? I grew up as a Christian at Ode-lemo, where I attended St. John school and I was one of the few people that finally completed Standard Six at St. John school in 1953. That was the last time the Standard School Exam was written. After that, it was changed to the primary school system. My mother died when I was nine years old, but I had a good grandmother that took care of me. My father was a very kind man; my sister and I were very young when my mother died. I can say I had a good early life. After Standard Six, I went out on my own. I started as a pupil teacher in 1954. Then I went to St. Paul Teacher Training College, Abeokuta, Ogun State between 1956 and 1957. I completed the Grade III Teachers’ course in December 1957. After that, I was posted to different schools. I gained admission into Ijebu-Abeokuta Colony Grade II Teacher Training College in Sagamu, Ogun State for my higher elementary certificate in 1960 and I resumed in 1961. I came first in the entrance examination, but I eventually withdrew from the college when the government stopped the full salaries they were paying to return students of which I was one. I eventually stopped teaching because I felt I could do something better than teaching, so I went on to study accountancy and that’s where I am today.