Mr Okewole completed his primary and secondary school
education in Nigeria and went to Bethany Christian
Academy in Jos, Plateau State. He then graduated from
the University of Glamorgan in the UK with an Honours
degree in Accounting and Finance. Since then, he has
worked in several positions mainly in Consumer Goods
organisations starting from Coty UK Ltd (a Reckitt
Benckiser subsidiary) where he worked as a Financial
Analyst. He then jo

Mrs Okewole is the chairman of Optimal College. She
attended Advanced Teachers College, Kano Nigeria where
she attained an NCE (Nigerian Certificate in Education)
qualification in 1975 specialising in Mathematics/Physics.
In 1980, she attended Ahmadu Bello University where she
read for a degree in Mathematics/Education (B. Ed) and
completed a Masters degree in Curriculum math (M. Ed)
at University of Jos, Plateau State in 1996. Her teachin

Thomas de DOUHET was born in 1970 in Lyon, France.
After some studies in History and Geography at the
University of Lyon, he worked as an educationist in
different countries. He has taught in a Montessori school
in India, and served as a French Teachers’ trainer in
Jos, Plateau State. He was then posted to Kaduna as a
Linguistic and Educational Attaché for the embassy of
France, covering the North of Nigeria.
In 1999 he was the director o