Stakeholders in the education sector have charged students in Delta State to strive towards achieving success in their academic pursuit no matter the odds.
They gave the charge during a seminar tagged “Academic Success and Your Future”, organized by a Warri based NGO, Naija Success Project at Federal Government College, Warri.
Speaking exclusively to Fresh Angle International, the Project Director of Naija Success Project, Mr. Besidone Ebule, stated that in the course of his interaction with students, he discovered that some of them have the impression that some great achievers in the world were school drop-outs, yet they succeeded in life and as such this has affected the productivity of the students. This he disclosed informed his NGO, Naija Success Project to organize the seminar so as to change the students’ mentality.
According to him, in this era where we are experiencing thuggery, militancy, kidnapping and robbery, there is need to correct the erroneous impression that there is no link between success in life and academics, insisting “that there is no illiterate who can produce machine”.
He disclosed that his organization since its inception in October 2014 have been to 40 schools in Warri South, Uvwie and Udu Local Government Areas organizing seminars, talk shows as well as using news letters to disseminate information to the students on how they can achieve success.
In the same vein, the Project Manager of the NGO, Mr. Charles Ose added that he had reservation about the programme’s outcome, because in the course of looking for sponsors for the seminar they were turned down as prospective sponsors didn’t buy the idea of the project, even as he quipped that they later found sponsors who understood that success has a role to play in the future of the students.
Founder of Virtuous Children Foundation, Mrs. Flora Omolola said the reason her NGO partnered with Naija Success Project was because they have the same objective as well as vision. She urged the students to strive to be successful no matter the challenges that they may face in the course of their academic pursuit.
Some of the students at the seminar
A representative of one of the sponsors, the Marketing Manager of 7Up Bottling PLC, Mr. Ralph Ayoola while encouraging the students to take their studies seriously, stated that character, competence and commitment is what makes a student succeed.
Meanwhile, the Resource person at the seminar, Mrs. Mercy Osandatuwa said that everyone has what it takes to succeed as there is no dull student. She added that all students are intelligent and have to put their brain to work.
She opined that to succeed academically, the students need to have effective study habit, keep purpose driven friends, find out their talent, work towards improving it, love their teachers and the subjects they teach, determine to be awake, do all they can to read their books and get values that will prepare them for the future.
A Resource person, Mrs. Mercy Osandatuwa giving a lecture at the seminar
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