Explore Your Environment for Opportunities - Tantalizers VC

Students and fresh graduates of FUNAAB have been advised to scan and
explore their immediate academic environment for possible
opportunities that could make them self-reliant, rather than look for
scarce white-collar jobs after graduation.
The call was made by the Co-founder/Vice-Chairman, Tantalizers Nigeria
Plc, Mr. Folu Ayeni, while delivering the 2nd Commencement Lecture of
the University titled 'Making Sparrows and Hammers Out of FUNAAB
Students and Graduates'.
He described the sparrow as a small plump, brown-grey bird with short
tails and stubby powerful steaks, a bird that can eat seeds and
insects; can bathe either with dust or water, difficult to control or
raise as pets, possess free spirit and can cover long distances. On
the other hand, the snail is a slow and confined animal that easily
becomes prey to other animals. The Commencement lecturer described a
nail as an object that lacks initiative, but can be tossed about by
the hammer, which is a tool meant to deliver impact to a subject by
being an enforcer.
"Which would you rather be?" This was the question posed to students
and other members of the University Community at the occasion.
According to Mr. Ayeni and majority of the students, being a Sparrow
and a Hammer, is the perfect combination and inspiration recommended
for the young people. His analogy encouraged the students to be bold,
creative, read wide, try something new, explore their God-given
talents, look for practical applications of acquired knowledge and
never be afraid to ask questions.
During the well-attended lecture, the Guest Lecturer shared his life
philosophies by enjoining the students to always redeem the time as
"time is money" and that you can always work for what you get and
don't be a taker without giving back.

"It is better to be a big fish in a small pond and expand the pond,
rather, than be a small fish in a big pond and get eaten. Don't bury
your talent, but then don't make too much noise. Let your work speak
for you. It is true about empty vessels", he counselled.
Using the Tantalizers success story of humble beginning, the
Vice-Chairman of the nation's leading fast-food industry, encouraged
the students to look for practical applications of available knowledge
for self-development. He commended the peaceful and beautiful academic
environment of the University and charged FUNAAB students to catch
their balls by doing what they were supposed to do even if others
failed to do so.
Mr. Ayeni graduated with a First Class degree from the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka and obtained his Masters in Business Administration
degree from the MacGill University, Canada.
Speaking at the occasion, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola
Oyewole, had canvassed for a generational change, to enable the
country achieve meaningful development. He commended the Guest Speaker
for delivering a highly motivational talk, which he noted will help
the students to aspire to greatness. He added that in the course of
achieving infrastructural development, members of staff and students
in the University's College of Engineering were being engaged as
consultants in the course of project implementation, to expose them to
real life practical experiences that would make them sound
professionals.
Earlier, the Otunba Fiwagboye of Ikorodu and a former Federal Works
and Services Minister who is FUNAAB's Pro-Chancellor and Chairman,
Governing Council, Senator/Sir (Dr) Adeseye Ogunlewe, charged the
students to remain focused, prayerful and obedient to their parents
and lecturers, to be successful in life, as he expressed the
determination of the present Council of FUNAAB to ensure that the
challenge of funding is tackled, to enable the University execute its
developmental projects.
Meanwhile, the Commencement Lecture is designed to inspire and
challenge students of the University by the exemplary life and times
of achievers in their generation, to spur them into greatness. The
maiden edition of the Commencement Lecture was held to usher-in the
last academic session, during which the former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Rt Hon Dimeji Sabur Bankole, delivered a lecture
titled ''Mentoring and the Challenge of Leadership in Africa''.

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