ULOG #5—A DAY WITH THE FRESHMEN OF UNIVERSITY OF UYO

EVENT OF MAY 30TH

Yesterday, the University of Uyo Women Association(UWA) organised an event for freshmen tagged crisis for value:reclaiming our society and I was there live.
Our beautiful female lecturer's, highly skilled and vested in great knowledge empowered the students with enough knowledge to oversee a perfect stay and proper conduct all through their endeavors in school and future endeavors of intentions.

The beautiful wife of our Vice Chancellor in her speech educated the students on hardworking as a builder of self esteem and exposes hidden potentials.

After an address by the chairman of the event and the deputy dean of student affairs division, the event started proper with the speakers offering advice on different fields.

DR IMAOBONG AKPAN
This beautiful motherly woman spoke on Uniuyo core values and gave us list of doings that should be adhered to:

• Faith in God
• Institutional autonomy
• Proper note taking
• Avoid procrastination— setting realistic goals
• Ensuring personal care and hygiene
• Adequate preparations for tests and exams
• Academic integrity
• Obeying the rules/regulations— respecting constituted authorities.
• Developing a queuing culture
• Developing listening skills
• Orderliness

PROF. MRS FELICIA ETIM

This intelligent hardworking icon to reckon spoke on LIVING A LIFE OF campus. She tutored us on finding a life purpose.
She defined purpose as the reason while something is done or used. She talked about vision and referenced the Bible for some manifestations of purposes and visions.

According to her, to realise your mission, you need a purpose, a mission, your vision and your smart goals.

if you want to keep something secret do not tell it. If you do not want to do shameful no-one should know about, do not do it

She Furtherly lectured us on how to know you're not living a life of purpose which includes;

• you wake up in the morning, you are not where you ought to be and have no plan setup for that
• you are against the society and the truth
• you are surrounded by people whose quality you do not admire
• reading just to pass exams😂 this one in particular amazed the students.

She also spoke on how to find your purpose

• First define yourself. Who are you?
• analyse your strength, values and weaknesses.
• define your context, environment .

Finally she rounded up on ways to maximize your potentials.

• know your source! God is your source.
• know your resources, finances, capabilities.
• finding the master key of work—diligence. Prayers and spiritualities does not replace work.

UTO JESUS
A beautiful lady stepped forward and presented a ballet in Ibibio advising the student of the relevance of going to school and not school going to them.

PROF. ENO-ABASI URUA (AN ICON TO RECKON)
This only is not my favourite but my very own linguistics professor. The immediate past director for gender studies. A mother who turned 61 on this day, looking very gorgeous spoke on YOUTH IN LEADERSHIP.

She gave a quick flash on the age agreements of youth in various domains
UNITED NATION 15-24
AFRICA 18-35
NIGERIA 18-35
NIGERIA POLITICS 18- UNTIL YOU DIE and the students laughed at the reality of this joke.

She reckoned on the youth as Nigeria's hope for the future. She defined leadership and ways of bringing out the leadership qualities in you perfectly and properly.
She stated that in being a leader, you have to successfully lead yourself, be self disciplined and financially disciplined.

She tutored us on the relevance of having a mentor and the traditional origin of mentorship in Africa.
she stated the following points as keys;

• attending leadership trainings and gathering experience.
• always volunteering for leadership positions in various organisations.
• do not join the NFA club(No Future Ambition)
• being humble
• avoiding questionable characters.

The University of Uyo theatre arts students presenting a playlet on proper dressing.
And this ushered in the next speaker...

DR MRS ENO EKPO
this beautiful dress killer computer scientist Nigerian-British icon spoke to us on YOU ARE ADDRESSED AS YOU DRESS! She is also a fashion designer.
She educated us on dressing. The differences between dressing and clothing.
She displayed pictures on slides and the students identified the occupation of the individuals on the picture by their dress codes.

She stated that the purpose for dressing was to cover nakedness and if one walks half naked while not walk naked at once?
She talked about signatures and need to dress according your your financial strengths.
She implored that a signature should be fit for purpose.

Negative dressing tells the opposite sex you're available and that results in some cases of rape.
She referenced this popular saying from a movie—

the king will not perform well in that role while he is dressed like a riff-raff.

DR AKO AKPABIO
then we had the motherly health tender speaking on LIVING HEALTHY IN THE UNIVERSITY.
she started by giving us a quick exercise of standing up and sitting down speedily.
She defined health, and stated that it's merely the absence of disease.
Health is ranked from 0-100%
You can be 50% healthy but no one can be 100% healthy going by the definition of health.

She advised students to apply the concept of 101 feeding system instead of 110 or 011.
She informed student that the mini-stadium should serve as a ground for exercise. That students should go jogging every morning at the mini-stadium.

She educated us on the prevention of rape and that one should report to the medical centre for treatment immediately after a rape incident.
She Furtherly gave us motherly advice and medical advice.

GOODWILL MESSAGES were given by

PROF. CELINA EKPO

DR UYAI AKPANABONG

OUR BEAUTIFUL HANNIEL UFFORD
SUG VICE PRESIDENT.

The event was fun as we danced out with the wife of the vice chancellor and all female dignitaries present.
There was fun, food, love in the air, knowledge and power!