Graduating boys posing in photograph with the Lagos State Speaker Mudashir Obasa.
By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor
Principal of NTIC Ogun, Mr. Ercan Yilmaz, “I am also to add that our school though doing well in academics; we do not compromise on strong character for each student. We emphasized to our students the importance of academic brilliance and high level of moral integrity, hence the mantra NTIC ‘for academic brilliance and moral development.’”
The Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC) last Saturday held its 2017 graduation ceremony during which it appreciated the efforts of parents for paying attention to the education their children.
At the event were Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashir Obasa, Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Professor J. K. Olowofela and the Dean of Student Affairs in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Professor Olalekan Arikewuyo, who was guest speaker at the event among others.
Speaking, Rt. Hon. Obasa thanked the school for its resilience and contribution to development of education in Nigeria particularly in the Lagos and Ogun states axis where the school’s South West branch is headquartered.
Obasa also saluted the parents of the school for their heroic stand during the kidnapping challenges faced by the school in recent past and appreciated the security forces for their effective job not only at getting the kidnap victims released but also arresting the criminals.
In his lecture, Professor Arikewuyo spoke to the minds of the graduating students making them realise from his personal experience growing up whereby the loan his parents took for two years, to fund his university from 1984 when free education ended with the coming of the military, took him six years to pay back when he finished and started working.
His point being that, for the NTIC’s graduating students well fed and doing well as they were without being subjected to the stress of fending for themselves for the period or their educational pursuit, “You must at this point turn toward your parents and say ‘Thank you daddy, thank you mummy’”, he said.
Arikewuyo however warned the graduating against not being themselves. “Don’t look at others. Look at yourselves and where you want to be and then pursuit it. Then, success will be your end result by the grace of God,” he advised.
Earlier in his welcome address, Principal of NTIC Ogun, Mr. Ercan Yilmaz, “I am also to add that our school though doing well in academics; we do not compromise on strong character for each student. We emphasized to our students the importance of academic brilliance and high level of moral integrity, hence the mantra NTIC ‘for academic brilliance and moral development.’”
