Great heights reached by noble men are not attained by a sudden flight. While their companions are asleep, they keep toiling through the night until the day breaks to see them looking down at the rest of humanity from their lofty heights.
The foregoing captures the trajectory taken by Segun Aina, the banker extraordinaire and immediate past president of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. Segun has moved through the banking industry like an unstoppable machine. From UBA and Ecobank to Fountain Trust Bank, he left nothing but glowing testimonies in his wake.
Surprisingly to many, Lawrence Segun Aina, has interests that extend far beyond the narrow province of banking. The Chairman of Multi-Trex Integrated Foods Plc currently sits atop the board of other publicly quoted and private companies in food processing, investment banking, information technology and engineering.
A humble servant of humanity, Segun Aina established the Segun Aina Foundation as far back as 1994. To say he has made an appreciable impact with his foundation would be an understatement. SAF has been providing leadership and mentoring programmes for youths, endowments in universities, educational scholarship awards to deserving brilliant but financially challenged students at senior secondary and tertiary levels and various other youth empowerment and development initiatives in the South West region.
It was thus in recognition of his unending efforts to aid the youths in attaining their dreams that the Tai Solarin College of Education in Ogun State recently conferred on him an honorary doctoral degree in Business Education.