ATBU Matriculates 4,194 Students, Advised them to be Positive & Focused

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Matriculated 4194 students, advised them to be focused, enthusiastic, positive and focued.

This is to inform the public that the management of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) on 31st May 2019 matriculated a total of 4,194 students for 2018/2019 session.

Below is the breakdown of admitted students.

1. .Faculty of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology <<>> 237
2. Faculty of Engineering and Engineering Technology <<>> 938
3. Faculty of Environmental Technology <<>> 677
4. Faculty of Management Sciences <<>> 386
5. Faculty of Science <<>> 1,136
6. Faculty of Technology Education <<>> 789
7. College of Medical Sciences <<>> 55
8. Total <<>> 4,194

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In the matriculation ceremony, the Vice Chancellor of the University also admonished new students to be focused, positive and enthusiastic.

Below is excerpt from eh speech:

BE ENTHUSIASTIC.

Your ability cultivates enthusiasm about what you have chosen to do here will be very crucial. Sometime, one does not get his first course in the University and this surely may affect his motivation, but it doesn’t have to do to be so.

My appeal to you at this point, is for you to cultivate the needed enthusiasm about the course you have ended up with.

This is because a man can succeed at almost anything for which he has an unlimited enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm enables you to control the emotional climate of any given situation.

Be happy and content with the course you have chosen or haven been given to study, have the needed passion for it and be self-motivated.

Also remember that God has ordained that you should be here at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and has chosen for you this course to study. Nothing really happens by chance.

BE FOCUSED

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, in addition to planning and enthusiasm you need to have focus.

In life, there are so many distractions which have the potential to distract anyone from his or her goals.

At times, we are attracted by these distractions and tend to follow paths we have not earlier planned to pursue.

An American investor, Thomas Boone Pickens, said “The older I get, the more I see straight path where I want to go. If you are going to hunt elephants, don’t get off the trail for a rabbit.” 

This clearly shows that, focus is very important in life when one wants to achieve one’s goals in life.

Your ability to focus on your goals, will among other things, help you to reach decisions quickly and firmly by saving time and energy which you would otherwise have wasted while wavering through possible courses of your journey.

BE POSITIVE

There are two groups of people generally-optimists and pessimists. Some people will say the glass is half full while others will look at it as half empty.

A positive attitude leads to happiness and success and can change your whole life. If you look at the bright side of life, your whole life becomes filled with light.

The light affects only you and the way you look at the world, but also your whole environment and the people around you. If it is strong enough, it becomes contagious.

If you cultivate a positive attitude in life generally, you stand to benefit from achieving goals and attaining success by looking at the bright side of issues instead of groaning and nagging about negative things and being pessimistic.

You must be optimists and believe that you are accountable for good things and these good things will generally come your way.
If something bad comes instead, treat it as only an isolated incident and believe that things will be better in the future. You may get poor grade in a course which situation has the tendency to bring you down.

Do not lose hope, for you have the opportunity to take it again. After all, you are not and will not be the first or last to fail a paper and take it again; many great men have treaded similar path in the past. No matter how gloomy the situation may be, be positive and remember what Anthony J. D’Angelo said “Where you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own
sunshine”.

AVOID CULTISM, DRUG ABUSE,
EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE AND OTHER FORMS OF CORRUPTION

The higher institutions cannot operation in absolute isolation from the communities where they are found. Cult activities are prevalent in the society and have unfortunate infiltrated part of the higher education system.

Such negative conditions as overcrowding, deteriorated facilities, admissions malpractice and inadequately challenging academic programmes have been blamed for encouraging the emergence of secret cults in the system.

Cult activities have had an extremely negative impact on learning and discipline in the institutions.

Illicit use of drugs has become a common engagement among the youth in all levels of education. In most cases, the addicts who are supposed to be the pride of the nation and a good number of cases are, otherwise quite promising, are left in the hands of the law enforcement agents to become wastes.