The work at CU
Working with young people at the Covenant University has been a privilege. I think it is a privilege working for God and with God in a God ordained environment. I also see it as a privilege when one is being used to mould lives and ensure that young people are turned to the path of God. My experience so far has been exciting and encouraging. I must say that it is exciting to be part of an unfolding scenario, molding young people and putting them on the part of destiny. The fact that one is being used and that one is a co-labourer with God is a great privilege.

As the Vice Chancellor of the Covenant University , the Lord has enabled me and a host of other people that are working with us in the university to help shape the lives of thousands of young people. This is so in the sense that in C.U we are not only concerned about the academic wellbeing of the students. We also take responsibility for the development of their spiritual lives.

We have a tripartite arrangement in C.U whereby the Lord helps us to take care of the spirit soul and body of the students thereby ensuring that we have total students upon graduation. We produce people that would help make a society a better place and not liabilities. Right from when the students gain admission, we make them understand that they not being trained to be job seekers but job providers. We also take keen interest in molding their characters prayerfully ensuring that they become better citizens.

What is gladdening to me is that two years after we turned out graduates, we hear exciting stories of our graduates doing exploit in the outside world. And the fact that one is involved in making them keeps one going in life. All together, I would say it has been a thrilling experience and I know the future holds greater things for products of Covenant University.

Greatest needs of young people
Since I started working with young people I have found out that their greatest needs is getting somebody to understand them and to relate with them in terms of not condemning them for who they are and making them to realize that they are loved. Older people must be able to come to terms with the younger ones and to appreciate the fact that they are living in a generation that is totally different.

If one is armed with this fact, one would relate better with them and understand their needs and aspirations. Young people need love, they need understanding, they need somebody they can pour their hearts to and somebody who is ready to listen to them. When they come with their problems we must be ready to listen to them and try to understand them. That is the only way we can help them out of their predicament.

My experience as a young person
I was seeking a part of self fulfillment and self expression in terms of what the future holds and what I could find in terms of breaking out. I was the first born in my family and there was a lot pressure on me to go out and excel. Everybody was looking on me and saw me as a forerunner.

The challenge was so great that whenever I thought of being the first child in my family, I tried to ensure that I did not fail my siblings. I just did not want to let them down. But when I met the Lord after my PHd degree, my ambition in life changed. It was about not letting God down. All my desires and aspirations were tailored to serving the Lord and ensuring that God is first in my life.

My salvation
This is about the most exciting thing in my life. After I got born again, as I said earlier, it was about pleasing God. My perspective about life changed. I began to do things that bring glory to God through the help of the Holy Spirit. Before then, it was just walking the path of morality and trying to just be good and seeking ways to contribute to the society. I was involved in advocacy programmes for women and children. I however found out later that you cannot affect lives outside the creator of those lives.

Usually when God is not the focus, other things take your attention. When I finished my PHd, it was obvious all I want to get was a PHd. After I got it I asked myself, what next. I felt a void within me. During my graduation after earning the Phd degree, I was suppose to be excited. But I was not. I discovered that life is not all about having a Phd. I got a Phd at the age of 26 and the graduation day which was suppose to be the most exciting for me turned out to be the day I was weeping and crying. It then dawned on me that getting a Phd was not the end of the road. God was just waiting for me to get the degree and to let me know that it was nothing.

And so there was emptiness inside of me and that made me to seek God. I was already mature and I sought God that day and I found him. He came into my heart and I became a new creature. Nobody preached to. I made up my mind to give my life to Christ. The day I made the decision was the day of my Phd graduation. And since then the Lord has been faithful.