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| McRoyal Enoch Mensah |
In recent times, campus has been filled with political braggarts, making mouthwatering campaign promises, only to know that they are vague after they are elected into office. Its result is low turnout during elections just because of the fear of the disappointment attached to voting for these braggarts.
One of the promises I ever wished to have witnessed was the provision of an electronic board in lecture halls promised by an aspirant some years back; only God knows when that will ever become a reality.
This year’s elections just blew pass, and now elected students representatives are expected to fulfill their campaign promises, continue and also protect the good legacies left behind by their predecessors. While patriots of the elected executives are sanguine or optimistic about their candidates, the doomsayers or pessimist say “we shall all see what they can do”- “omo san be di ye sika” on which side are you? Well, I am everywhere because I couldn’t support all aspirants during the electioneering season.
My phone beeped at 6:30 a.m. yesterday (15th May 2014), with a message, “CARRIER SUMMIT FOR FINALIST” at 3 p.m. sharp, CENTRAL NUGS 2014/15 initiative. I asked, has there been any chlorination in the gene pools of the newly elected executives? Well!
This is the very first time executives have portrayed a sense of commitment to hard work by organizing a carrier summit even before the commencement of a new academic year. Participants included; some members of Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG), Teaching Assistants and the targeted final year students. While others will say they “just” did it in appreciation to the final year students, because they voted for them, I say it is a sign of embracing the “Walk the talk” movement. In fact, they are spiced for action. CENTRAL NUGS, what a gallant step, kudos!
The seminar highlighted on scholarship opportunities for post graduate programmes, electronic job application and also few tips on generating table of contents directly from MS Word 2010/13 and also how to correctly number projects with both roman numerals and numbers in a particular documents without having to divide the documents separately.
You might be tempted to ridicule or under estimate the topics of discussion but I tell you, there was no better opportunity than this, because it met the needs of the participants. Akans say “ese wa ni”
The thought provoking presentations from Mr. Luu Ying (Lecturer, UDS), Master Peter Enimile Jnr., with McRoyal Enoch Mensah, Central NUGS President, chipping in tips reserved in his I.T. knowledge reservoir, led to applauses and cheers from participants because they were well-equipped and rehearsed resource persons. Tips, from the world of scholarship and online job application will not be left out because of absentees, a few are; scholarshippositions.com for scholarships and www.rileyguide.com/jobs.html , africajobsite.com for online job applications.
It is worth noting that, the saying “African time does not exist in the world” was echoed severally hence I adjudged as the quote of the day.
The maiden summit facilitated by the NUGS President, McRoyal Enoch Mensah, NUGS Secretary, Osman Adamu for and on behalf of NUGS, with indefatigable crop of committee members was climaxed with allowing participants to do self-assessment and contributions which will make subsequent seminars more educative and relevant. Just incase you missed this one, my tip for you is, “How to write a winning C.V.” – suggested by a GRASAG member, and many other entrepreneurial and carrier development tips.
NUGS, success is neither a high jump nor a long jump; it is the steps of a marathon.
CENTRAL NUGS 2014/15, keep treading on the slippery road with firm steps and success shall welcome you.
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The Unseen Eye
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