Chancellor of Covenant University
(CU) Ota Ogun State, Dr. David Oyedepo, has stated that virtually everybody in
Nigeria is complaining that things are not working.
He said it is high time people
learnt to ‘Stop being merely bookish and start grooming thinkers’.
Oyedepo, who doubles as the
presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, delivered the keynote
address at the 54th meeting of the Committee of Deans of Post Graduate Schools
(CDPGS) in Nigerian Universities at CU premises.
Oyedepo said global solution
providers such as Nibert Einsten, Isaac Newton, and The Right Brothers among others,
once had a brainwave in their time which led to great revolutions in their
respective fields.
He warned Nigerians that repeated
complaints would not work; but that they should battle their challenges
headlong.
He said: “Everywhere I go in
Nigeria today, everybody continues to complain that things are not working; but
who will start how things will work and when? That person is you and that time
is now; and post graduate education should serve as a platform for inciting our
students into thinking solutions. Today, it is thinkers that rule the world and
we should be development-oriented in things we do”
“Leadership is not being in the
driver seat, but adding values. As a dean, you must start thinking what
difference you are going to make in that position; what contributions in terms
of innovations and feat. You have no business being in that position if you
cannot make that difference that will be a reference point to your successors
years after you have left.”
Further, Oyedepo opined that the
‘read thinking’; concept which according to him, combines research alongside
critical thinking of solutions.
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