Convocation charge being an address delivered by the Proprietor himself, Bishop FEB Idahosa II at the 1st Convocation Ceremony of Benson Idahosa School of basic and Applied Studies at the Faculty of Law Lecture Theatre, Benson Idahosa University on friday 24th November, 2017
Behold the Vision
For those of you graduating this day, I want to encourage you to pursue that vision you have always had. I know many of you had dream of being Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, Entrepreneurs, Accountants, Bankers, Scientists and many others. I want to implore you not to give up on your dreams and aspirations as the Bible said in Zachariah 4: 10 “do not despise the days of little beginning…” though your beginning may be small, but your latter end I assure you will greatly increase. Utilize this basic and applied knowledge you have gotten as your platform to lunch you into your desired vision.
Perhaps when you matriculated into Benson Idahosa School of Basic and Applied Studies, you would have preferred direct admission into degree programmes. Now you exposed through the formative process of an Innovative Enterprise Institution, there is no doubt you have been fully impacted with practical based skills through the school’s robust curriculum and you therefore positioned to meet the demands of advancing economy for gainful employment and academic advancement. This should naturally give you an edge and you should see yourself as privileged; because you came, you saw and you have conquered. So square up your shoulders and take your pride of place, you have double benefits ahead of you.
Everything and every event you see around you are products of others’ pursuit of purpose, which is a fore sight of vision. Vision gives birth to plan, strategic planning makes room for a disciplined lifestyle which gives birth to success. A billionaire once said when asked, that he became successful because he had planned for it long ago, before he became even a millionaire he had that goal written in a plan on his old rusty computer years earlier. You will never achieve your life goal until you have them plainly written. It is written in Habakkuk 2:2 “write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it”. Catch a vision, make it plain by writing it and run with it by following through.
Do not while a time, do not mistake activities for productivity; you can be busy but not productive. Know what you should be doing and the appropriate time for it. Do not get sunk in what others are doing that you lose track of yours. Be intentional. The best way you have time to do what is important is by designing your daily life as a response to purpose being guided by vision. I am excited to send you forth today either for gainful employment or academic advancement, but whatever it is, be the best you can be. I round off in the words of our founding father Archbishop Benson A. Idahosa, “make no small plans here”.
Bishop F.E. Benson Idahosa II
Proprietor/Visitor