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Dr. Emmanuel Ojameruaye, Grants Officer Snr, Paradise Valley Community College 10 Things About Me

1.	I am from a large family, and with this comes a lot of responsibilities and the need for skills to manage diversity in talents and behavior. I am the eldest of 7 children of my parents- 3 brothers (I deceased) and sisters; I have 5 children ages 22 to 35, and 7 grandkids, 6 months to 7 years.

2.	I come from a poor background and have succeeded in life through hard work, tenacity and belief in the dictum “Where there’s a will there’s a way”.

3.	At the age of 20 in the mid 1970s, I went to Poland for university education on scholarship; studied in Polish language and earned a master’s degree in economics after 6 years, and returned to my country Nigeria to teach economics and statistics in a university using English language, and earned my PhD degree in 1988 while teaching. Throughout the 5 years I studied at University of Warsaw in Poland, I was the only African (in fact only foreign) student in the Department of Economics.

4.	When I came to the United States in 2002 on H1-B via my wife and 5 kids my plan was to return to Nigeria at the expiration of my visa, but due to family exigencies I later changed my plan and naturalized as a US Citizen and remained. However, I am still and will forever remained emotionally tied to Nigeria, especially my homeland (ethnic group) in Nigeria which is a multiethnic country.

5.	I have travelled extensively around the world -have visited over 30 countries in virtually all the continents/regions of the world. This has broadened my perspectives and enabled me to cherish the idea of “unity in diversity”

6.	I am a man of “many parts” – have worked in various settings and different positions.

7.	I strive to live by the biblical “Golden Rule” “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matt. 7:12).

8.	I believe in peaceful coexistence of people of different backgrounds, religion and ethnicity. I do not believe that people should be judged by the color of their skin, and I abhor the use of skin color to classify people.

9.	I am a faithful Christian, and believe the world will be a better place if we can all follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. I am always appalled by “pretender” Christians.

10.	My best songs are “Imagine” by John Lennon and “We are the world” by Michael Jackson et al.