Welcome to the University

Welcome to the University. Welcome to the world of knowledge, the centre of learning, and the world of intellectuals. Welcome to the ladder to greater heights and to the pathway to fulfilling your great dreams.

Welcome to new friends, new passions. Welcome to discovery and rediscovery. Are you excited? Terrified? Expectant? Intimidated? Dismayed?

The university is a place of great freedom. For the first time, you get to choose whether or not you will go to

class. For the first time, your evenings and nights are your own, with no rules and regulations to follow; you have no curfew, no boundaries. Here you will meet all categories of people —- the good and the bad, the confused and the focused. You will meet those who are careless with their lives and those who value their lives. What

you do with the new-found freedom will determine what you will become. The university has produced great men but in it, the lives of potential great men have also been ruined.

Maybe you came to this university with a great passion to succeed and set out

on a journey to a wonderful life. Maybe you had no passion on your heart as you were joining the university. Whatever your desires were, we are sure you did not join the university to fail. You did not join to ruin your life morally and become infected with diseases through reckless behaviour. You did not come to become a drug addict, a drunkard or an abortionist because of unwanted pregnancies. Our desire for you is that you may have a meaningful, goal directed, successful and accomplished stay at the university.

Whatever the number of years your course will last, our greatest prayer for you is that you will one day look back and be excited that you made the right choices while you were at the university. In all that you are getting in this university, get wisdom.

The word of God says, “Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them. Do not

forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. Wisdom is supreme; therefore,

get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding”(Proverbs 4:5-7).