Vice Chancellor's Address at the 25th Orientation Programme held on Monday, 3rd January, 2020:- Francis Ogbonnaya Otunta

ABSTRACT

It is with great delight that I welcome you all to the 25^th orientation programme for fresh students of this University. On behalf of the Management, Senate, Staff and the older Students of this University, I welcome you heartily to this great Citadel of learning and congratulate you for scaling all the hurdles to secure admission into this University. Many other qualified candidates were not so fortunate. This immediately confers a heavy responsibility on you right from the onset, to settle down quickly and make the best out of this opportunity to acquire sound University Education.

In the course of your studentship, we shall ensure that you are exposed to all the skills that you will require to function productively in an acutely competitive and challenging global environment. How much you take away and the success you make out of this learning enterprise depends entirely on how clearly you have articulated your goals in life and the degree of your commitment and dedication to the achievement of these goals. Every season has its people, and every person has his/her own time. You are the people of this season. How you make use of this season is what history shall record for you. The choice is clear success or failure. Every generation has its own stock of successful and unsuccessful people, men and women who utilized or failed to utilize the opportunities before them. For the one group, life has so much to offer, for the other group, life after the University is full of frustration, regrets, bitterness and decline. If you are wise, you shall choose today, the path of success which is travelled by only disciplined and hardworking individuals.