He came first in the entrance examination into the University of Benin in 1972 out of a student population of over 21,000 but was almost refused admission because he mentioned the name of a Head of State in his essay. He was the youngest African to have appeared and featured in the network news of Columbia Broadcasting Station (CBS) Television in the USA in 1975 when all the facts were broadcast to all Americans when he was briefly a student at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.