The Greatest Alma Matter of Our time.

In view of the recently held 46th convocation ceremony in The University of Lagos some days ago, many of the elated graduands expressed their utmost joy for having finally completed their stay in the ivory tower.

Many appraised the institute and christened it as The best institution of higher learning in the country. They however wished that all other universities in the country can borrow an inkling from the school on how it runs its affairs and thereby imitate their good traits.

                                               An elder sister to one of the graduands.

                                                       One of the graduands.

Greatness

In every little thing you do, there is either an iota of greatness or great destruction based on the positivity or negativity it has been executed with. Great things mostly come in small packages so, never underrate that kind little gesture you did sometime ago.

being positive

The world’s greatest achievers are those who don’t give in to defeat. They put in additional efforts when encountered with a peril order than giving up. One thing to always take note of in life is that trials are intrinsic to living. Life is never fully cosy even with the most buoyant of all so never think that your trials are peculiar to you alone or specially fashioned for you to bring about your downfall.

Okay let’s take a look at it this way, while in secondary school, your biology teacher teaches you about reproduction and how millions of spermatozoa on a sprint race are released into the reproductory body organs of a woman. Out of them all, only one that arrives first at their destination would pierce the ovary and have its way in. now can you just try to figure this out within the closet of your mind, it simply means that you emerged first out of millions of spermatozoa that were involved in your conception race. So, aren’t you lucky indeed?

Now relating it to reality, have you ever thought the basic importance of having to hear the clarion cry of a newly born child before accepting the normality of that child? What if the child doesn’t cry, what would be done to him or her? That is just the simplest symbolism of life’s intricacies. There is no gain without a pain. The only difference in it all is that the intensity of pains differs as some might experience a more excruciating pain than the other but nonetheless, just as no sin is little, so also, there is no such notion as a little pain as long as it’s felt and is capable of causing an apprehension.

Many at times, we tend to make a big fuss out of our minute problems and get fed up easily without having the slightest inkling of the enormity of the problems being faced by others around us. We tend to be oblivion of the fact that what seems to be the peak of our problems is the least of another’s; what makes us fret most would get others finding solace in them; what puts our hearts in a disarray, would get others exhilarating. So, stop making a mountain out of your tiny mole hill. You can easily get rid of a mole hill but as for a mountain, it’s impossible to break or overcome it.

Ruminate over this and change that biased notion of yours towards life. Remember, the secret is optimism and perseverance.

God bless.  

food for thought

The best of things are always gotten form filth. Imagine if you didn't have to mine before extracting crude oil or discovering gold, if Jesus had been born in a royal family, if Ben Carson had grown with a silver spoon, if you didn't need to till the ground before getting most food crops, if you didn't have to go through the rigors of cleaning the blood blemishes of a slaughtered chicken before eaten it and if you didn't have to putrefy manure to aid a bountiful harvest of crops.

Now the message is, no matter your present status, situation or condition, keep being optimistic about a greater future because the best and most captivating success stories are the pathetic ones.

News Story

Ex-envoy tasks politicians on selfless service

 Victoria Campbell

 

Former Nigerian ambassador to the United Kingdom and Pro-Chancellor, Pan African University, Lagos, Dr. Christopher Kolade, has attributed the ill and devastating state of the nation to the misplacement of duty and nonchalance to work exhibited by political office holders.

He stated this in Lagos at the District Education and Welfare Endowment Fund (DEWEF) organized by Rotary International held in December where he was the guest speaker at the forum.

Christopher Kolade, an industrialist also suggested that integration and being proactive are essential in paving a way for the desired change in the country, noting that the youths are viable tools in making this reformation a reality.

“My suggestion is that we need to turn our attention to the young people in our nation before we lose them”, he said.

According to him, politics is a call to service to humanity and the nation at large which requires a selfless sacrifice, in contrast with what is obtainable as the existing status quo in the country.

In the same vein, the representative of Ogun State governor and the commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Abimbola Ashiru, testified to the importance of diligence to work as he attested to the fact that the extant government of his state is walking in that light.

Earlier in the day, the chairman of the occasion, a business icon and the founder of Diamond Bank plc, Dr. Pascal Dozie, while delivering his opening speech explained that DEWEF is a societal assistance initiative established for the purpose of rendering the services of Education, Health, poverty alleviation and other assistance pertinent to the welfare of the people. He further urged everyone present to support the scheme so as to be part of the reformatory process in the state and the country at large.

Dignitaries present at the event were; The Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwan Akiolu; the former Deputy governor of Lagos state, Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan; the former Minister of Health and Social Services, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, among others.

 

Pix L-R: Rotn. Kennedy Ejakpomewhe, District Governor Rotary Club, Dr. Pascal Dozie, Chairman of the Occasion. Prince Julius Adelusi- Adeluyi, Chairman DEWEF Board Trustees, and Dr. C. O. Kolade, quest Speaker discussing.