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CU staff treated to a
beach splash
In order to shake-off the weight and
stress of academic workload of the preceding year and brace
up refreshingly- body, soul and spirit, for the challenges
of the New Year, Covenant University staff and their spouses
were treated to an innovative beach fun fare hosted by the
Chancellor, Dr David Oyedepo, during the weekend.
The event, which took place at the serene
and relaxed ambience of Suntan Beach, Badagry, was full of
colour and creativity. It featured events such as beach
splash, seashell collection competition, drama, jokes,
choreography, football, scrabble, and chess.
Its alluring and refreshing context,
afforded the University community the opportunity to
interact, know one another and strike new bonds of
friendship.
The conviviality of the event was so
reinvigorating and uniquely empowering as participants both
old and young, including the Chancellor, the Vice
Chancellor, the Registrar and Professors had several
splashes and lunge on the sea waves in styles that would
humble any professional diver.
Earlier in his opening speech, the chief
host, Dr Oyedepo, said the event was not a formal meeting
but an open meeting, designed to help participants relax,
interact and build new bonds of friendship. He urged the
participants to enjoy and fully express themselves.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Aize
Obayan, in her remarks said it was really wonderful to start
the year that way and thanked the Chancellor and his wife,
Pastor Faith Oyedepo, for the opportunity.
Some of the participants said it was a
novel outing for them, as they could not remember when last
they had such opportunity to ventilate. Prof James Katende,
Dean of College of Science & Technology, who went with his
wife, said it was a very refreshing good break from
academics, adding that he last went to the beach 20 years
ago. For Dr Daniel Rotimi, Dean of Student Affairs, who was
in the same beach two years ago under the auspices of the
Chancellor, it was an innovative way to relax after a busy
schedule and get one fit for a glorious year. Prof E. T.
Otunola, Head of Department, Biological Sciences, who shares
the same view, said it afforded him the opportunity to
relate and properly know some of his colleagues.
Another senior academic, Dr O. E. Agboje
described it as a wonderful corporate experience he never
had since his return to Nigeria after a long stay in
Germany. He appealed to leadership to organize such outings
regularly as "I like the way Chancellor interacted with us,
it gives us the impression of being one big family".
The way the Chancellor played on the
beach and interacted with staff was very instructive,
according to Mr. Chris Nkiko, Acting Director, CLR, it
brought out the humanness and rounded nature of him, which
"makes it easy for us to obey his command."
It was not only a beach splash and games,
participants also had good bite of the variety of meals
provided through the generosity of the Chancellor.
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