MSSN hosts over 400 students in Agege, Lagos 

By OUR REPORTER, Lagos

Moshood Mustakeem from Smatech High School, said that watching the film had taught him that one can make use of the very little he has to achieve greatness in life.

Over 400 students have benefited from the leadership training/mentoring event organised by Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Agege Area Council, and The Young Muslims Association (TYMA), Agege Area Council.

Speaking to newsmen, Amir, the Head of the organization in the Local Government Area, Mallam Idris Idris stated that the event was put together to mark this year’s Children’s Day.

According to him, the event took a different dimension of educational games and film in order to achieve maximum positive impacts instead of the usual lectures.

“We have come to realise the fact that students get bored easily with lectures and many might not really get the desired lessons of the lectures compared to how they will stay focused with film and also imbibe the teachings and lessons in the film,” Idris explained.

The DEFENDER reports that over 400 students came from different schools in Agege axis.

Speaking on the movie titled, “THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND”, the Amir said the movie was to motivate students using visual display as opposed to the usual lectures delivered on other days since it is a celebratory event.

“Since the students love to see movies, we decided to go that route seeing it as a better way to give them value,” he said.

The movie is said to be all about a certain smart boy, whose town was being disturbed by drought and excessive flood. In the period of drought, there was no water around in his town. This curious boy then went ahead to read as much as he can about “how to convert wind to electricity”.

Eventually, the boy was able to produce water from just one well in his town to the whole land in the period of drought. So, whether it is period of drought or not, the farmers and inhabitants were covered.

However, only very few people believed in him, even his father. But one thing stood out, he had absolute belief in what he read on the conversion of wind to energy.
It took him couple of months to get his father convinced with the help of his mother, because he needed his father’s bicycle wheel to carry out the experiments.

Students’ lessons, takeaways

Speaking with newsmen, some of the students expressed their appreciation to the students’ body for the very impactful event.

Moshood Mustakeem from Smatech High School, said that watching the film had taught him that one can make use of the very little he has to achieve greatness in life.

In his words, Hamid Khalid from Agege Junior College, Agege, Lagos State, shared his own experience and lesson learnt, “That we don’t have to wait untill exam period to study. Additionally, no matter how small or little we are, we can make it in life.”

In his goodwill message, Chairman of the occasion, Mr Abdulhakeem Olalawon, urged the students to imbibe the lessons learnt and be good ambassadors of Islam wherever they find themselves.

There were both indoor and outdoor games which included; sack race, egg race, picking the balls, scrabble, chess, whot, skipping, match past, bouncing castles among others.

The students testified to having fun while also learning.