THE JOURNEY; THE SOUND OF VICTORY
MY DEDICATION
TO ALL CONVOCATING UNN NAFSITES,
ALL SHEKINITES, TO ALL SUPER-LIONS 2012 AND TO 2012 GREAT NIGERIAN GRADUATES
By Eburuche, O.C. Banito
CEO, BNT Consortium International.
One of the characteristics of a
successful journey is the sound of victory.
This is the simple reason the super-lions of the University of Nigeria
are jubilating under a spirit of high ecstasy for a successful journey of
victory on this 25th day of January, 2013. Simply put, journey is the movement of goods,
services and/or passengers from one location to another through a means. Without doubt, these super-lions have moved from
one lower level to a higher level of honour, dignity and integrity. A journey is characterized by a driver, departure
and arrival time, point of departure and arrival, journey permit and deliverables
among others. Of a true, these ones, as the drivers and negotiators of their
own journey with certified journey permit, took off on a flight from a point of
departure at a time and now, they have arrived with their deliverables. They have fought a good fight, overcome their
challenges and today we are celebrating their victory.
I deeply congratulate us all for
having come to this peak of this journey of victory. Obviously, there are stories to tell; good
and bad, beautiful and ugly but of a true, whatever be the story, we’re glad
that we have come out as distinguished victors.
At some point, we might have felt like to give-up and at some point, the
tunnel became so dark such that we couldn’t decide which direction to follow;
the journey too long and so rough. Honestly, we had many threatening visitors
like confusions, stress, challenges of all kinds among others but in all these,
the journey of our titan experience was yet victorious.
Without measure, we appreciate God
who in His infinite mercy, faithfulness, grace and unfailing love saw us
through. We all, knowingly or unknowingly, experienced God’s unfailing love in
this journey. His divine provision was
awesome, His protection over us was unequalled and His grace for knowledge,
understanding and wisdom was amazingly remarkable. In all these, we cannot appreciate His
Majesty enough than to say Thank You Lord.
We will not fail to appreciate
our teachers, lecturers, advisers, supervisors, heads of departments, deans of
faculties, vice chancellors among others in this category. Without you, our experience in this journey would
have been a misery. You took us through
the thread-like path of the journey of victory and now, we sing the song of
victory. Our joy would have been
demeaned if your unending great efforts towards making us intellectuals, did
not progress in a high geometric order. The resident wealth of knowledge in you
is so amazing and your non-reluctance in dispensing such knowledge to us with
high degree of effectiveness, efficiency and humility was greatly
remarkable. You became our parents,
friends, mentors, advisers and virtually everything. You had the patience to
bear our immaturity, delays, negligence, reluctance towards accomplishment and
all our weaknesses. You empowered our strengths
and starved our weaknesses through your encouragements and motivations. To our heads of departments, deans of faculties
and vice chancellors, your high performance in effective, efficient and healthy
administration helped us to accomplish faster. We are forever grateful to us
all.
To our spiritual guidance, counselor,
mentors among others in this distinction, we are eternally grateful for your
prayers, intercessions, counseling and welfare packages. You stood by us from when the journey was
tough to when the journey became tougher till this very end.
What of our wonderful families;
parents and relatives, colleagues and friends who never gave up on us. It came to a point when there was nobody to
lean on but you gave us a shoulder to lean on.
We were able to come through because of your corporative and collaborative
support which was excellently profound. We
are forever indebted to you.
To you our progenies, you were
excellently wonderful. Your encouragements, advice and support were
motivating factors that helped us through this journey. Our word for you is to keep focused, get more
determined, committed and dedicated to studies and surely, you will sing this
song of victory soon.
Our special thanks to;
Professor
B.N. Okolo,
Vice
chancellor,
University
of Nigeria,
And
to all vice chancellors of the world universities.
To
all the deans of faculties,
University
of Nigeria,
And
to all deans of faculties of the world universities.
C.S.
Bhandary,
Head
of Department,
University
of Nigeria,
And
to all heads of departments of the world universities.
To
our lecturers,
Department
of Food Science and Technology,
University
of Nigeria;
-
Professor
P.O. Ngoddy,
-
Professor
A.I. Ikeme,
-
Professor
Onwuka,
-
Professor
T.M. Okonkwo,
-
Professor
J.C. Ani,
-
Dr.
P.O. Uvere,
-
Dr.
J.I. Eze,
-
Dr.
G.I. Okafor,
-
Dr.
(Mrs.) I.E. Nwaoha,
-
Dr.
P.I. Akubor,
-
Mrs.
Uzodinma,
-
Mrs.
A. Onwurafor,
-
Mrs.
Esther Oma,
-
Ms.
Peace Akah,
-
To
all other academic and non-academic staff that the list cannot contain,
-
And
to all lecturers of the world universities.
We
are forever grateful to us all. To all
super-lions 2012, a big congratulations to us all once again.
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