NEW students of Landmark University Omu-Aran have been charged to individually work out their success as same is not transferrable even from their parents.
This charge was given to the new students of the institution by the chancellor, Dr David Oyedepo, during the school’s 12th matriculation ceremony, held at Omu-Aran last Friday.
Over 600 undergraduate and 60 postgraduate students were matriculated at the ceremony.
“Note that success is not transferable.Success is an offspring of serious-minded individuals,” he said.
To buttress his point, he gave the instances of the biblical Abraham who could not bequeath greatness to his son Isaac. He added that Isaac too could not transfer greatness to his son Jacob who had to struggle on his own to fulfill his destiny.
Oyedepo highlighted the success nuggets embedded in the curriculum of the institution. These are the Total Man Concept (TMC), Entrepreneurial Studies (EDS), agripreneurship, and Towards a Total Graduate (TTG).
The “four high-selling custom-built programs”, according to him, are aimed at promoting the Man-child model of education, to engender accelerated maturity, spiritually, intellectually and in entrepreneurship.
In her address at the ceremony, the pro-chancellor of the institution, Pastor (Mrs) Faith Oyedepo, assured the new students of the top-notch quality of the institution, among others.
“ The university is a centre for qualitative learning and character moulding,” she said.
She also enjoined them to be focused and also lay emphasis on capacity building, which she said would be needed, not only at the institution, but throughout their lifetime.
On her part, acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Charity Aremu said over 3,000 graduates of the institution were making exploits in their fields.
They include, Dr Oluwatobi Alabi, in University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa; Glory Egwede, a young model accomplished pathfinder, and Alexander Shuaibu, founder of Zane Graphics.
Aremu also said that 25 persons from the university were ranked in the just released ranking of ‘Top 500’ Nigerian authors for year 2021 as captured by SciVal, reputed for ranking world-class universities. Among them, the leading researcher in Landmark University is ranked 13th at the national level.
She added that the university emerged as the best private university in the North Central of Nigeria in 2021 and 1:10 in Nigeria among 196 ranked universities.
The registrar, Miss Adefunke Fola Oyinloye, congratulated the new students, on starting off their journey “to becoming solution providers, new generation leaders, reformers and pathfinders.”