The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, Prof. Kolawole Salako, has decried the addiction to and obsession of the youths of today with irrelevant fantasy on Facebook and other social media platforms, urging them to “face their study instead of facebook.”
Prof. Salako said this in his remark at a thanksgiving service to mark his 60th birthday, held at the Living Spring Chapel, Onikolobo, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Sunday.
Lamenting the indisposition of contemporary students to reading their books and facing their studies, the university don frowned at the manner at which youths of today have bastardised the positive impact of technology, social media in particular, by wasting quality times on immoral fantasy that doesn’t add values to their lives and the society.
Prof. Salako noted with dismay that unlike in his days when they read, study and researched deeply, today’s youth are fond of consulting Google for answers to everything, thereby making them lazy and prone to short cut of making it in life.
Also condemning the prevalence of social vices, especially radicalism among the youths, the FUNAAB Vice Chancellor also recalled that despite the fact that he was slightly involved in radicalism while growing up, he never allowed it to derail him from his focus on education, unlike the youths of today.
Prof. Salako pointed out that as a matter fact, he started nursing the ambition of becoming a professor, right from his secondary school days, affirming that with determination and trust in God, any youth can achieve his or her dreams, irrespective of daunting challenges.
Disclosing that God is the cornerstone of his modest success in life, Salako described God as his rock, who fought his battles and gave him victory and success as Vice Chancellor.
Earlier in his sermon, the pastor of Living Spring Chapel, Abeokuta, Pastor Kayode Ojo, who preached on the theme, ‘Receiving God’s Power,’ described Prof Salako as a man who feared God and relied on His power before and now as Vice Chancellor.
Pastor Ojo described the power of God as dependable, reliable and permanent, saying that all other powers are temporal, stressing that this is why super powers and celebrities of yesterday are shadows of themselves today.
Taking his sermon from the Books of John, chapter 1 verses 2 and Zechariah, chapter 9 Pastor Ojo charged the congregation to give their all to Christ in order to have His unrivalled power
Special prayers were offered for the peace, progress and development of the country and for God contineous guidance, protection and prosperity on Prof Salako and his family.
The Thanksgiving service was attended by strictly invited guests, a quantum of who are dignitaries, with strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols.
