Tailor your skills to people’s needs, VC tasks new students – Daily Trust

The Vice Chancellor of the African School of Economics (ASE), Abuja, Prof. Mahfouz Adedimeji, has charged the new students of the college to make a considered use of their time, noting that the current is a fleeting second that quickly turns into previous.

Prof. Adedimeji gave this cost in his tackle, “Your Present Is Your Present”, delivered on the second matriculation ceremony of the college held lately on the University Auditorium.

According to the Fulbright scholar, who congratulated the students and their dad and mom on the historic event, the journey to the matriculating students’ desired future had simply begun.

“You are simply beginning and earlier than you might be terrains to be explored, depths to be reached and treasures to be found. The alternatives are huge and your duty is to utilise them by maximising the usage of your time. All you’ve gotten is the current of the current to assure your future.

“Your present or presence here is a gift that has been denied other people like you. Use it well on your studies and preparation before your present becomes past. Commit yourselves fully to your primary assignment in the university as that is the key to your success and avoid distractors or distractions,” he famous.

Prof. Adedimeji welcomed the students to the college neighborhood and inspired them to study on daily basis each inside and out of doors the classroom, stressing {that a} sensible particular person learns from the errors of others.

He inspired them on objective setting and skills acquisition as a part of their coaching whereas advising them towards being contented of their consolation zones.

He acknowledged, “It is your responsibility to identify and harmonise what you love and what you are good at with what the world needs and what you can be paid for. You are welcome to the university and I encourage you to never rest until you always become better than the best elsewhere.”

In his lecture on the event, “University Education as a Catalyst for Poverty Eradication”, the Guest Speaker, who can be the Kwara State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Dr Lawal Olohungbebe, counseled ASE on its strategy to college schooling, noting that he had been following the progress of the establishment since its inception in Nigeria two years in the past.

Dr Olohungbebe, who can be the Chairman of the State Commissioners of Education in Nigeria, inspired the students to make the most of their distinctive establishment by buying analysis skills to bridge the prevailing gaps in society and vocational skills by which they may generate revenue and get lifted from poverty.

As a manner of escaping poverty entice, Dr Olohungbebe emphasised the significance of hands-on competence whereas encouraging the students to domesticate monetary literacy early, stay under their means as a way of life, keep away from pointless money owed and construct robust skilled networks proper from now.

Goodwill messages have been delivered by Prof. Tunde Akanni of Lagos State University who together with Alh. Najeem Jimoh, former editor of The Punch Newspaper, represented the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Emeritus Is-haq Oloyede, in addition to the founding father of ASE, Prof. Leonard Wantcheckon of Princeton University and Dr Foluke Aliyu-Ibrahim from the University of Ilorin.

They all counseled the administration of ASE, The Pan-African University of Excellence, on setting the college on the trail of worldwide excellence and urged the students to be hardworking.