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B.A (Hons) MBA. MBIM Administrative Director A WELCOME ADDRESS PRESENTED BY CHIEF JOHNSON MODIKA BAROVBE JP MANAGING DIRECTOR, WESTMINSTER COLLEGE LAGOS, ON THE OCCASSION OF THE 6TH GRADUATION AND VALEDICTORY SERVICE ON 24TH JULY 2008 The Deputy Governor, Her Excellency Mrs Adebisi S. Sosan, ably represented by Mrs Bunmi Salako, Your Royal Highness, Oba S. O. Balogun, The Elegbeda of Egbeda Land, Chairman, Board of Governors, Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, OFR, members, Board of Governors, Distinguished guests, parents, teachers and students, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to welcome you all to the 6th Graduation ceremony of our 2008 graduating students. I could remember vividly the first graduation ceremony in July 2003 at which the first seven foundation students graduated from the college with dignity. On that day I told the seven students that we would monitor their academic or educational progress for the next six years for experimental purposes. As at today four out of the seven students have graduated from various universities, two of the remaining three will graduate in 2009, if there are no long time strikes in the Nigeria public universities. The last of the seven students ended up with GCE advance level and took up a good job. The four that have graduated, all came out in second class upper division and two of them are now pursuing their master degrees, one at Cardiff University for an MBA and the other at Birmingham University for an M.Sc in Engineering and both of them will complete their courses by September 2008. As I have said before, the first graduation ceremony was for seven students but today I am delighted and elated to announce to you that 38 humble but vibrant, strong and intelligent class of students will pass out of the college today 24th July 2008. It is the policy of Westminster College Lagos to train students and also seek for admission and place the students in ‘Good Universities’ in the premier league both in Nigeria, Ghana, the UK, Canada, USA and South America. Why we emphasis the good universities in the premier league, is that most of the time, adults revered the name of the universities where they studied. For example, in the UK the ranking of Universities are displayed on ‘The Times Good University’ website and I do advise that Nigerian parents who are sending their children to study in the United Kingdom, paying such huge amount of money in foreign currency, (between £9,000 and £20,000 for tuition alone per annum) should be able to select from the Good Universities ranking from 1 to 113 in ‘Times Good Universities’. This year some parents of the 2008 graduating students met with the college authority to look for admission in overseas universities for their children, and I can pertinently say that eight of the graduating students have already got unconditional offer of admission to Queen Mary University of London, Universities of Bristol, University of Liverpool, University of Reading and University of Leeds on the ‘International Foundation Year’ courses in Law, Engineering and Biochemistry. Another five of the graduating students today are already out of the college to start their studies at various universities - Master Philip Nzegbuna at Chicago, USA, Miss Yewande Akinrodoye at Maryland, USA, Miss Ulisa Isagbah left for Belize in Central America, while Miss Gbemisola Babtunde at Olabisi Onabanjo University and Master Ayenuyo Toyosi is already at Unilag studying medicine. In effect about 75% of the 38 students who are graduating today are on their way to various universities in August and September 2008. The majority of the students are going to Covenant University Otta, Babcook University Ilisan, and Bowen University Iwo. I can confidently say, that 90% of the graduating students have obtained the requisite GCE Ordinary level paper qualifications to secure admission in any University of their choice in any English speaking country. You may ask why students from Westminster College Lagos are so confident and sure of themselves academically? The answer lies in the college curriculum and academic life. Here in Westminster College, we believe that a child’s success in later life will be greatly helped by academic qualifications, consequently in our teaching we go further and deeper beyond the National Curriculum. The Westminster College Lagos curriculum is all embracing, rich, varied, well balanced and as wide as possible and by the time a student gets to the fifth year or senior secondary 2 (SS 2) he or she has covered enough ground to cleverly pass Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) WAEC or NECO GCE with high grades (A - C). By the time a student who is above average finishes from our senior secondary school here, he or she has covered some good parts of GCE advance level, especially in Mathematics, Biology, Physics and Chemistry. As I always say, we in Westminster College Lagos believe in hard work, because the college is conscious of its responsibility to parents, many of whom make considerable sacrifice to send their children here. For the high level of academic work and discipline, I want to thank all the teachers especially, Mr Stanley Echetama, N.C.E., B.Sc., Biology, .Mr Ashe, B.A., MA History, Mr Odeyemi NCE., B.Sc., Agriculture, Mr Umoh B.A., English and and most importantly Mr Olowolaiyemo B.Sc., Physics and Mr Oladipupo B.Sc., M.Sc., Pharmaceutical Chemistry. During the last graduation ceremony in July 2007, the highlight was on one of our parents who was elected to the envious position of Deputy Governor and now combines the Ministry of Education with the Deputy Governorship position, Her excellency, Mrs Adebisi S. Sosan. But in today’s graduation ceremony, the highlight is personal, I can say with humility mingled with joy that I have gloriously reached the climax of my teaching career today 24th July 2008. You can ask why I am so excited? The reason is simple, two of the graduating students, Master Ejiro Ogidigbo and Master Voke Salubi, are children of my students whom I taught 43 years ago between 1964 and 1965, in the primary school in Delta State. I taught Ejiro’s father and Voke’s mother. Incidentally, one of the two students Master Ejiro Ogidigbo is also the Senior Prefect or Head boy of the College. To my graduating students, I sincerely appeal to you to carry on all the good qualities of leadership you learnt at Westminster College Lagos, such as loyalty, courage, emotional stamina, physical stamina, empathy, decisiveness, anticipation, timing, competitiveness, self-confidence, accountability, credibility, tenacity, dependability, stewardship, humour and humility. As you are going out remember that you are from Westminster College Lagos. God bless you all.
CHIEF JOHNSON M. BAROVBE JP, BA, MBA, MBIM.
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