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Moji Tejuosho<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nRelatively Speaking> The Future is Bright \u2014Raola Tejuosho
\nBy the time Princess Moji Tejuosho was the age her daughter is now, she had had her first child and had another on the way.
\nThough her daughter Rao wants to settle down sometime in the future when the right man comes along, it is the prospect of work that seems to ring her bells.
\nStill, the two ladies share an amazing mother\/daughter bond, are both family oriented and are highly protective of each other.
\nAt the fashionable Victoria Island restaurants where we meet for lunch, Mrs Moji Tejuosho points to her kids the exact spot from which her husband proposed to her more than 20 years ago.
\nThey\u2019d been so young, the lovebirds, and she remembers with nostalgia how hard he had tried to talk her into getting married.
\nAnd obviously, he succeeded. The result was one of the most celebrated weddings in Nigerian media history, being preceded by a blitz the size and extent of which had never been seen before or since.
\nIt would become, in fact, the flagship of celebrity weddings, and the sense of history could not be missed now as Raola, the first daughter of that famous union listens and looks on in utter amusement.
\nLater, as we chat, she asserts she would like to get married soon, but you get the impression it is a politically correct statement and that like today\u2019s cosmopolitan and globalized young women, she is full of ideas and brimming over with ambition.
\nIn the coming year, she wants to return home from her UK base to fulfil them. \u201cI think there are basically more opportunities here for you to come and be your own boss than in England.
\nYou\u2019re stuck with doing the 9-5 over there. This is our own country, we have more connections here. The connections you have like in London are limited. Here I can make something bigger for myself\u201d.
\nBut that is only one way of looking at it. What about the other side of the coin, being that structures have been established over there?
\nShe agrees only to an extent. \u201cThe whole foundation is there, you can probably get a loan or a grant.
\nOver there it\u2019s experience, experience, experience. Everything\u2019s been done over there. I have that higher standard, I expect a lot more so why can\u2019t I come and adapt that here?\u201d
\nWith a degree in Hospitality and another in view in Law, Raola, 23, has run a restaurant during her university days and there, she discovered her strengths: \u201c I\u2019m usually given managerial roles because I\u2019m very good at organizing people\u201d.
\nShe\u2019s also the one always trouble shooting and suggesting solutions. Now, she wants to make her own money: \u201cI\u2019ve always been practicing. I want to get launched in the real world\u201d.
\nTo a layman though, there might be some difficulty understanding how hospitality and law, which she plans to combine, are related. In explaining, Raola makes it seem not as remote as it might seem.
\nA stint in one of Nigeria\u2019s biggest and most prestigious hotels in every department presented the opportunity to see behind the scenes and what she saw was \u201cshocking\u201d from the point of view of the law, human rights and even hygiene. \u201cYou had people working till late living in far away places\u201d
\nBeing the descendant of two very illustrious Yoruba individuals must surely make a girl feel a little extraordinary. Raola\u2019s great grandmother was chief Bisoye Tejuosho, Nigeria\u2019s first modern- and to date one of the only- female industrialist; and her grandfather the indefatigable Alhaji Rasak Okoya, another great industrialist. She must either feel intimidated, or empowered.
\nFor Raola, the latter is the case. \u201cI have seen so many members of my family do things, including my dad. I don\u2019t think anything is stopping me. I think I have a very very good future ahead.
\nImmediate to that future is finishing her law degree at Buckingham. \u201cI want to start thinking now as an adult. It\u2019s time to be more independent\u201d.
\nRaola\u2019s mom, Princess Moji, is unequivocal about her opinion of people who regard with disdain women who choose to stay at home to raise their children and is glad that she has spent quite a lot of time raising her own five. \u201cI had all the opportunity, I was working for my dad, was director blah, blah blah. I gave it all up and I wanted to do that. I laid the foundation for them\u201d.
\nShe also calls the bluff of the famous work\/life balance. \u201cIf in some way, sometime the kids need your attention and you\u2019re not there for them\u2026You cannot be in two places at the same time. I gave them a hundred percent and I don\u2019t regret it. Now that they\u2019re all out there in the unis I can come to myself, and I\u2019m young enough to do whatever \u201c.
\nHer utter pride and sense of accomplishment is palpable when she talks about her children including one of the boys, who is going to study architecture in Asia and had been given a senior leadership position at his school in England even while a student. Another son is reading Chemical Engineering.
\nWith a father with a reputation for doting over his children, it is to be wondered how her old man bore not only losing her to marriage but also to another religion, Christianity. \u201cYou cannot stop the Lord\u201d, she explains simply.
\n\u201cI come from a sternly Moslem background and there was a point in my life I wanted to know what I truly believe, so I read the Quoran. It\u2019s just natural. You just question everything about you, about God and that was when I questioned the Quoran.
\nThe Moslem faith says \u201cAllah\u201d, which is God, and the Christian faith would say \u201cJesus\u201d and I used to think why not go to the Father why go to the son? And what not. That was the question that led me to start looking\u201d.
\nThe princess not only looked, she got completely sold, and ended up at some point running a Christian bookstore in London, from where her team also gave counselling services. She had married, in any case, into a Christian family. Still, she would not try to have undue influence if any of her children were to change religions.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a personal thing. They are the ones who know what it is they are looking for. I won\u2019t say no, but of course I won\u2019t be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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