Forestry Fresher's Charge.

A SHORT SPEECH DELIVERED BY COM. (HON) OGUNYEMI OLAKUNLE JOSHUA ON THE 21ST DAY OF JUNE, 2017 AT THE 2016/2017 ORIENTATION PROGRAM FOR FRESH STUDENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, FUNAAB AT EXACTLY 3:30PM

The Dean College of Environmental Resources Management, FUNAAB,
The Head of Department, Forestry and Wildlife Management, FUNAAB.
The Director of Part-time Studies, FUNAAB.
Staff Advisers, Forestry and Wildlife Management Students Association,
Able lecturers in the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management,
The elegant Fresh Students of the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management,
All other protocols due observed.

Good afternoon.

It is an honour and a great privilege to be given the opportunity to write from my abode here in Lagos on this very important day to challenge the fresh students who had just being admitted into this wonderful department.

I want you to know that it has always been on my mind to seek an avenue to encourage and prepare the mind of fresh students in the University of the challenges ahead and the possible way to overcoming these hydra-headed challenges. I am glad the opportunity is here now and i want to sincerely appreciate the executives of FOWISA ably led by Com. Abiodun the first female President of the department since its inception for this awesome privilege.

As it impossible for a young soldier to be enlisted into the army without a proper orientation of what lies ahead in the profession so it is for you as a fresh students in the department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, FUNAAB. This is a day and an occasion where you will be trained, lectured and given relevant piece of information needed for your survival in this department within your five(5) years sojourn in FUNAAB. Therefore, i urge you to pay rapt attention to every Speakers and take cognisance of everything you will learn, or hear today as it goes a long way to securing your success on a long run.

I believe great Speakers who had spoken before the rendition of this speech and those that are yet to speak will excellently educate you on the importance and opportunities that avails in this profession. So, i won't bother you much on that but from experience i can boldly tell you that you in a noble profession with different niche and many lucrative opportunities void of massive competition as it is in other fields today. I am a living witness even with the little time i have spent in this field.

After i graduated from secondary school, studying forestry was the last thing on my proud mind. All i wanted was engineering and medicine & surgery but as fate would have it, i find myself admitted to study forestry. I couldn’t comprehend it at the early stage as i was thinking of changing course or registering for Jamb again before i later knew that God was involved. Since, i caught this revelation, i have never regretted studying forestry till today.

Let me not bore you much about my story but i am very sure a lot of you are also in the shoe i was 6 years ago presently. I am sure many of you are already thinking you are in the wrong place. Wait a minute, how many of you agree with me that your admission into this department was not just by accident or co-incidence. How many of you believe it is divinely arranged. If you do, i want you to throw away those negative thoughts and pride that might want to stop you from giving your best and do everything possible to be the best in this field of study.

Yes, your friends might make jest of you but never mind, they will soon come and celebrate you. Making it in life today is not only a function of the course you studied but a function of many other things some of which are attitude, ability to multitask, ability to solve human problems etc. And this you can acquire irrespective of your course.

To conclude, let me share with you the 7 P's that helped me achieved a lot during my stay on campus.
1. Plan: If you fail to plan, you will plan to fail. Have a short and long term plan, this will help you.

2. Prepare: Adequate preparation prevents poor performance. I will forever remember the boys scout motto which says "be prepared". Test can come at any time, let it not meet you unprepared. Be ready at all times.

3. Practice: Make it a habit to always reflect on everything you are taught on a day. Don't wait till a week before the examination before you start reflecting. Practice on daily basis. Practice they say makes perfect.

4. Passion: Develop passion for this field. Make it a point of duty to learn something new about this profession on daily basis. Have a tree book where you will jot down vital information on trees for those interested in the Forestry aspect and an animal book for those interested in the Wildlife aspect. Just be passionate.

5. Purpose: The question of purpose is a very important question every individual on earth must answer. Your purpose in life guides your and shapes your actions. Your purpose gives you a clear direction. Ask yourself on daily basis, God, why am i in this department. What is that special thing you want me to achieve in this department and be rest assured he will tell you.

6. People: This is a very important aspect of it all. People plays a vital role in the success of any individual in life. You Can't succeed without people. Remember, we are gregarious. Created to interact. So, having this understanding there is need for you to align yourself with good people. People who will influence you. People who will add to you and not devalue you. Abstain from people who will lure you into sin and cleave to people who will always draw you to God on regular occasions. People that will motivated and encourage you. It is also important you have a mentor especially one in this field.

7. Pray: After all that have been said and done, prayers remains the most important Key of it all to becoming a success during your stay on campus.

My prayer for you is that God almighty who saw me through without a carry over despite all my extra curricula attachments to the glory of God will see you through.

I love you....

God bless you.

Signed;
Com. (Hon) Ogunyemi Olakunle Joshua.
Pka: Prof Kay.
07063403997.

Dad is Divine.

DAD IS DIVINE

Growing up as a child was to me an unforgettable experience as i enjoyed a greater amount of love from my dear parents. The first word i learnt to pronounce was the three letter word dad. As a child i got so used to this word that i call virtually everybody i see on daily basis dad until one day when i got the understanding of who a dad was in the real sense.

The first understanding i had about the father is that they are the male parent, the head of the family and the one responsible for the provision of the daily needs of the family. The second is like this that they are an important tool in the hand of God to bring about the fulfilment of his plan for mankind.

As important as the head is to a body, so is the father to the family. Remember, it is at the head that the most important organs, glands, tissues and cells are concentrated. This analogy to a reasonable extent shows to us how important a man is to the family as vital resources needed for the survival of the family is embedded in him.

As Christ is the head of the Church, so also is the father the head of the family in all ramifications. The head is meant to provide direction to the body, it is meant to house the eyes that aids our perfect vision, and also the brain that controls the whole human body. Therefore to be the head of the house in all its entirety, the father must be able to lead the family in the way of God to achieve God's laid down vision for the family and to also provide direction to the family. Failure to do this as a man is tantamount to destruction, lack of vision and direction, vulnerability to external attacks, and inability to fulfils God's mandate as a family.

Human needs they say is unlimited and insatiable, but in the midst of this unending desire, it is expected of a man to do everything within his possible best to provide the basic needs of the family. The needs of the family like food, clothing, shelter, school fees, bills, rentage and many more. He must also be able to meet the spiritual needs of the family, he must be able to regularly feed the family with the undiluted word of God that is able to save the family from the hands of enemies.

In the agenda of God, man plays a very important role in colonising earth for God with heavenly principles. No wonder God created man first in his own image and gave him dominion over everything He has created. No wonder he choose twelve disciples where virtually all of them are men. The idea of man as the head of the family is as old as creation and divinely arranged by God our perfect creator. His expectation on man is that man be the head in everything. Especially in the fulfilment of his responsibility as the head of the family.

At the fall of the first man, Adam, man lost dominion but thank God for Jesus who had appeared to restore unto mankind all her lost glories and dominion and he has also given us the grace and the spiritual enablement to be man indeed.

Most people think fatherhood is all about the name or fulfilling the desire of their parent or keeping cultural demands but let me shock you, it is far from this, it is in the doing, and fulfilling the expectation of God for the family.

Show me a peaceful society and i will show you a man who is living worthy of his calling as the head of the family. Most of the issues rocking our society today is as a result of poor parenting especially in the area of fatherhood. Many father have left their responsibility undone and pay hid to common rashes. Today is a day for us to retrace our steps as fathers and start to do the needful without any iota of delay because delay may be dangerous.

The real concept of fatherhood is really going to oblivion as many young people are really missing it big time in this present dispensation. Many want to marry but are not fully ready to carry the attached responsibility. Many want to marry but don't have what it takes both spiritually, financially, physically, materially and in many more areas. It should not be so. Remember, Dad is divine and not jocosive.

As i join in the celebration Of this year Father's Day, i want to sincerely give it up to a man who has been a good father in every aspect of it. A man whose commitment to leading the family to achieve God's laid down vision as a family has been spectacular. My dad, Engineer Joseph Ojo Ogunyemi has been a mentor and a perfect model of who a true father is. You have been up and doing in the fulfilment of your responsibility and i pray that the good Lord almighty will continue to strengthen and grant unto the grace to continue to be a good father to us all. I love you dearly.

This is also an opportunity for me to plead with other men in our nation to please wake up to their respective responsibilities. I pray the Lord will provide for you all and grant unto you more grace to be man indeed.

This celebration is also a good medium for me and the entire nation to pray for our ailing President,  General Muhammadu Buhari that the Lord will send forth his hand of healing to heal him wherever he is in any part of the world and deliver him from the hand of the wicked ones in Jesus name. I also want to pray for the acting President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo that the Lord will grant him the grace to be a true father indeed and that the Lord of heaven will endow him with wisdom needed to lead our nation right in the absence of the President in Jesus name.

My special prayer also goes to my dear governor, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose and his able deputy governor, Dr. Kolapo Olusola and the rest able men responsible for the development of Ekiti State, i pray that the good Lord of heaven will bless and keep you all. He will cause His face to shine upon you all and be gracious unto you. May He release unto you the wisdom required to lead the state to her promise land of Milk and honey in Jesus name.

I won't also forget to pray for church leaders all across the globe particularly leaders of the Anglican communion.

The Primate of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Nicholas Okoh, our Bishop, Rt. Revd. James Odedeji the Head of the Diocese of Lagos West, Anglican Communion and to my lovely Vicar, the priest in charge of the Anglican Church of Pentecost Oke-ira, Rev. William Casley Swanzy, i pray that the Lord will empower you all and fill you with more power from above. May his spirit never leave you in Jesus and may the Church of God continue to march forward in Jesus name.

This is very important for me to do. Let me also use this medium to re-affirm my love and commitment to ensuring the regular happiness of the wife that the good Lord the giver of all good things will give me. I promise to be a good father to my unborn children and a good husband to my future wife.
So help me God.

Happy Father's Day.

Signed;
Com. Ogunyemi Olakunle Joshua.
Pka: Prof Kay.

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WHO NO KNOW GO KNOW

WHO NO KNOW MUST KNOW.

In the cause of implementing my laid down plans for this year world environment day celebration, i met with some young and old people around my locality here in Lagos. I took my time to ask a sample of their population questions on what is happening today but i was greatly surprised at their various responses. None of them knew what exactly June 5 was all about. Even when i was explaining to them what today was all about they seem to be uninterested with their discouraging response showing glaringly to me the level of their ignorance on the sustainable management of our environment.

No wonder waste and debris are dropped at the water ways causing hindrance to the free flow of our waste water thereby resulting in erosion and on the larger side flood. No wonder indiscriminate bush burning persist in the midst of civilisation bringing about loss of earth's riches in biodiversity and loss of our precious forest land area and resources. No wonder the misuse of the environment by some people because it is hard for them to give what they don't have. Must we continue in this trend? Must we continue to leave in this ignorant state without allowing the breeze of change to transform our thinking and mindset on the need to manage and protect the environment? Must the educated keep mute while those who have no knowledge about the environment continue with their destructive action on it? What about the consequences of their actions and that of our inaction on the environment?

This is the major reason why environmentalists all across the world have set aside June 5 of every year to celebrate this wonderful complex biotic and abiotic community, the natural world where we find our existence. This we do by educating those who don't know much about the environment and its paraphernalia on the need to know so that the world can be a better place for us to live because if this destructive actions on the environment continues, we are only heading towards an irreversible doom one day.

Remember, there is strength and gain in biodiversity. Shun hatred and let's show love to one another without the exemption of animals. I am very sure our environment will be a better place if we can show her greater love than we have for wears , phones and other mundane things made from the environment. According to the popular saying, "cleanliness is next to godliness", let us endeavour to keep our surroundings clean at all time. Adopt the proper and modern way of disposing waste. Plant a tree to mitigate the effect of some obnoxious gases on the environment and at least the oxygen it produces will be good for us and our neighbours.

If you are yet to join this celebration, you can join by educating someone around you on the need to sustainably use, manage and protect the environment our common asset.

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Signed;
Com (Hon) Ogunyemi Olakunle Joshua.
Pka: Prof Kay.
07063403997.