Inability to further education push me into business – CEO Joe Exclusive Saloon
BY MIKE ADEYEMI
The Chief Executive officer, Joe exclusive saloon, Mr. Aloke Joshua cannot be overlooked for his unflinching natural skills in barbing as he is well known in Kwara and beyond with diverse customers cutting across prominent people and the hoi polloi in the society.
Challenged to raise funds for his university education forced him to dish out the skills in him which becomes a source of blessing and wealth to the family. Joshua a civil engineer graduate of Kwara State Polytechnics, Ilorin narrated how he underwent apprentice for three months and engaged in several laborers works for about four years raising money to settle down.
On capital, he said, ‘my brother gave me N25, 000 which I used to rent a shop for the business. I was left without penny to buy tools like clippers and other barbing instruments”.” It took God’s intervention and perseverance to my breakthrough to this stage in life.
The CEO who is one of the most successful barbers within the metropolis stressed that he has many apprentices including corps members.
According to him, he enrolled back to school and graduated as a Civil Engineer and also running a top-up program at Kwara state university Malete.
He called on youths not to depends on white-collar job as many opportunities beneath their hands. They should identify problems and initiate the idea of solving societal problems, saying it is the secret of money making. To potential entrepreneur, Joshua advised them never to give up, noting that failure is the way to success.
