 I think teachers are probably the most underrated VVIPs in the world. That's very, very important personalities in the world. Probably the most underpaid too and the most underappreciated. But the truth is that teachers are just incredible moulders of the lives of those that they come across, especially young people. In preschool, to primary school, to secondary school, teachers at those levels are particularly important in the lives of the young men and women who they teach and who they mentor. I, for one, am really the product of several teachers. My primary school teacher, pre-school teacher, Mrs. Yegule, you know, by just reading to us regularly in class, you know, every afternoon, taught me the wonders of reading poetry, prose, you know, and biographies and all of that. And then in secondary school, I had a teacher in Form 1 who, that's the JSS1 in today's terminology, who was Mrs. Elushadi. She was just an extremely, she was just incredible and really what I recall that she did that was so inspirational for me. She read, I was just barely two weeks in class at the time. She read this particular essay that I'd written. After declaring one particular essay the best, she then said, there's a particular essay that I read which I've never seen anything as imaginative as that essay. It turned out it was my essay. It was so inspirational for me and it gave me so much confidence going into later years about my abilities, my writing abilities and all that and it just stayed with me forever. Then in later years, I had Mrs. Odusi who was my economics teacher. She was just outstanding. I mean economics wasn't a subject that we liked very much but Mrs. Odusi coming into it, especially in our A-level class in the lower sixth and upper sixth, she just turned it around for us and the great grades that we had was just an account of her passion and her style and then her general empathy about what it required to teach. I kept thinking about teaching and it was just something that for me I thought I might end up being a teacher but when I got to university and I had the great privilege of being taught by the teacher that really inspired me then was Professor Odusi. He taught me and I think it was the second and third years international law. I attended his international law class although I didn't offer it and then jurisprudence and he was just outstanding just in the way that he presented his facts and all that. I think he was the one person who by just the way he taught and just by the way he carried on I was convinced that I'd want to be a teacher, I'd want to be a lecturer. I started teaching in the university in 1981. I taught for several years, just under 40 years. On this very special day, the world teacher's day I'd like to wish all teachers in this nation wherever you may be whether you're in a village or in a city or in a town wherever you may be, I'd like to wish you Happy Teacher's Day. We're extremely proud of what you do, extremely proud of your work. We sincerely appreciate all the sacrifices that you make every single day. We regard you as major pillars of our society. Happy Teacher's Day. God bless you.