By Musbaudeen Shekoni

CHIEF Executive Officer of Red Africa, Mr. Adebola Williams, has urged students to pay the price for greatness, adding that greatness and success do not come easy.

Williams who was the guest speaker at the 2018 Honours Day of City of Knowledge Academy (CKA) Ijebu Ode, held at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos said students should think of what to do to add value to people’s lives as that would eventually become the source of their livelihood.

He told them, “Pay the price for greatness; never stop dreaming, thinking and believing in yourselves.” With the theme: The Rights of a Child, Williams disclosed how he started his career as a teenager and gradually became whom he is today. He told the youths that they were not too young to dream and act on their dreams.

“When I was a teenager, I spent my time with older people.  I had in my morning time, the benefit of foresight so I could make decisions others at my age couldn’t.” The motivational speaker who posited that youth is a gift that students must maximise, maintained that it is a gift to find purpose and start making impact early in life.

“Life is in three phases – morning, afternoon and evening. This is your morning time.   The morning is the best time to capture all you need. You can take life easy until the age of 25.  After 25, you are not as playful and free to do anything and fail and try again as you were. In your evening time, you have seen everything.”