Don warns youths against dubious wealth-making schemes

PROFESSOR Taiwo Makinde of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State, has cautioned Nigerian students to be wary of making wealth through dubious and diabolical means.

He gave the admonition during a valedictory service held at Fiditi, Oyo State, by the Bethel American International School (BAIS), a Minnesota, US faith-based secondary school owned by the Good Samaritan Society of America.

Professor Taiwo of the Department of Public Administration, in her keynote address entitled ‘Your Next Step’, described as alarming the rate at which youths crave wealth through dubious and diabolical means, adding that many of them end up mentally deranged.

“Some youths now engage in ungodly activities such as ritual killings and sleeping on the graveyard, all in the name of getting rich at all cost. Some even involve themselves in various scams and dubious means.

“Please, be focused; work hard and wait for God’s destined time,” she pleaded, urging students to make their past a guide to their future as their preparedness would reflect in their disposition to life.

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“For you to succeed, you have to know your purpose in life. This should involve both the physical and spiritual. You have all taken the step required of you and the school has also prepared you for your next step,” he said.

Makinde also warned parents against forcing career plans on their children, adding that doing such could make the child end up being frustrated.

In his own speech at the occasion, the chairman of the Board of BAIS, Pastor Scott Hintermyer, said the school had just graduated 14 world-changers.

“It was a great accomplishment to see a dream conceived by a group eight years ago come into reality. They had worked diligently to develop the framework and educational philosophy for the school with a vision of having the school stand apart from other schools in Nigeria.”

“Our vision is to graduate highly educated students who think clearly and listen with discernment and understanding,” he said further.