Your Education Should Be About The Depth of Light You Bring To Our People - Dr. Abdulrahman Adeiza

By Ismail M. Kabir

The immediate past President General of Ebira People's Association (EPA), Dr. Abdulrahman Adeiza has urged Ebira academics of impacting the people with their education.

The impactful remark was delivered on the occasion of Celebration of some Ebira sons and daughters that recently bagged Ph.D in their various academic disciplines.

The event which held at the Hilltop Paradise Hotel, Lokoja over the weekend was in Celebration of the trio of Dr. Hussein Adinoyi Etudaiye, Dr. Juliet Hassana Okibayi Mouneme and Dr. Abdulrahman Otuoze Okino were celebrated by Committee of Friends for their academic height.

Dr. Adeiza who noted that having doctoral degree that is academic and not honorary was not a mean fit urged the celebrants to impact the society, saying that "your education should not be about the amount of rice you can buy but the depth of light you can bring to our people".

See the full remark:

I am pleased to be part of this gathering. A gathering to celebrate cerebral height rather mediocrity.  Having a doctoral degree that is academic and not honorary is a no mean feat. It is the height of educational degree while professorial is the height of academic honor. You should be celebrated for your tenacity of purpose and doggedness because in our present circumstance where people circumvent rigours of the classroom to take an easy way to purchase this name, you have decided to sweat to earn it. You have shown to the younger generation the honor of hard work. I congratulate you all.

 

Your education should not be about the amount of rice you can buy but the depth of light you can bring to our people, it should be the  amount of relief you bring to our people and not the amount of grief and it should be about the intensity of love you can engender in our communities and not the vile and hatred you can spread across the land

 

Across our land education is fast becoming another appurtenance for illegal acquisition,  illicit deals and demystification of basic virtues. Germaine issues have been jettisoned for mundane ones. The sharp end of our education has been blunted by the race to sycophancy. We have diminished our values. I ask? Who will save our race? Who will build our future? Please let your education think for you and not you thinking for your education. Thinking for your education is when you use sophistries to rationalize your apparent and inapparent misdeamenours. I am not unaware of the brilliance of the three of you and I believe strongly you will use your education to lead a new moral renaissance in our land.

 

For knowledge to hold sway, it must have truth as a content. Please Live hence and speak truth to shape your communities because the truth and knowledge that you proffer are the only durable legacies that will survive you. May the sharp and bright end of your education make an enduring trail for others to follow in our communities, amen.

Let patience be your weapon, let knowlege be your courage,  let intellect be your driving force, let wisdon be your guide and above all let truth and the fear of God guide your conscience.

Congratulations and best wishes in your future lives, Amen.

Prayers, Encomium As ADDECO Medical Outreach Commences

By Ismail M Kabir

It was an exciting moment today in Adavi-Eba as a Free Eye Treatment exercise commenced amidst prayers and encomium from the people of the Community.

The Adavi-Eba Eye Care Community Outreach is an initiative by a daughter of the soil, Engr. Ahuoiza Mary Kumode (a member of Nigeria Youth Parliament, Kogi Central) which is aimed at addressing rising cases of sight defects amongst people in rural communities across Nigeria.

The Free Eye Treatment outreach includes Visual Acuity, Refraction, Tonometry, Viewing of the Fundus and Dispensation of Medicated Glasses to over 300 targeted beneficiaries across Adavi-Eba and environs within Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.

The 3-Day Programme which was flagged off today (June 2nd, 2021) had in attendance, the Adavi-Eba Community chairman, Alhaji Dauda Abedoh, the Shehu of Adavi, Sheik Ahmed Rufai, a representative of Adavi LGA Chairman, Hon. Rufus Balogun and Hajia Bilikisu from the Hospital Management Board.

The Honourable commissioner for Youths and Sports development was represented by Comrade Bashir (aka Camp Master), an Exco of Kogi State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria.

Convener of the outreach, Engr. Ahuoiza Mary Kumode commended the community leaders for their maximum cooperation in ensuring appreciable turnout of the deserving beneficiaries of the programme.

Engr. Mary noted that her intention for floating the initiative was to fulfill her burning desire to alleviate the pains and despair of people with various sight defects within the rural communities who lack the requisite resources to afford treatment.

 

 

She said her little contribution is further boosted by the collaboration of the medical team from Adavi-Eba Cottage hospital, support from spirited individuals and encouragement from family and friends.

While appreciating everyone who has ensured the smooth takeoff of the outreach, Engr. Ahuoiza pledged to sustain the effort by referring advanced cases to the relevant healthcare centers for better attention while extending the gesture to more communities in the days ahead.

She further used the occasion to appeal for more support from government, civil society organization and corporate bodies towards safeguarding the sights of the poor and vulnerable in the community.

Over 60 people were provided refractive eye glasses among various free eye treatments that was administered on the patients.

The outreach will continue till Friday, 4th of June 2021.