Students and young people have been advised to manage their time wisely if they hoped to succeed with their life aspirations.
The advice was given by a veteran journalist, teacher and writer, Dagogo Josiah in a lecture he delivered at the maiden edition of Mind@Work Lecture Series of lectures organized for students of Baptist high School, Port Harcourt on Thursday.
Mr. Josiah, who himself is a 1974 alumnus of the school, said though time is the most important resource, it was however a wasting resource and people must learn to manage it when they have it on their side.
He said if students manage their time well they would pass their examinations, saying people who loved to sleep might just discover that they had slept their lives away because they failed to manage their time well.
He said, “Do you know that time wasted can never be regained? You know that you can lose money and regain it if you work twice as hard. But with time, when it is wasted, you can never regain it. This is why it’s so important for young people.
“Nobody told me this when I was your age, and that’s why Mr. (Yinka) Coker was so passionate when he said, ‘Look, some of the mistakes we made was because we are not properly guided.’ We shouldn’t let you make the same mistakes, and it begins with time management.”
Mr. Josiah also spoke on Legacy, told the young students on the need to always creating values that would outlive them for a long time.
He said materials acquisitions needs might create temporary comfort but they would always dissolve into nothingness after a short time but legacies last almost forever.
“Legacy is physical or intellectual or artistic accomplishment which outlives the person, who accomplished it. There’s a place called the State Secretariat, those tall buildings where the civil servants go to work. There’s one block called the Point Block. It was built in the 70s by the first governor of this state, Commander Alfred Diette-Spiff.
“There is no state in Nigeria where you can find such iconic buildings. It’s only in Rivers State. That man left power in 1975 and to this day, those buildings stand as a testimony that there was once a governor here who meant well and who left an indelible mark. And they will be there even long after the man is gone. That is what we call legacy,” Dagogo said.
The Principal of the school, Mr. Opuene Albert-Dede, admonished the students to take the lecture on time management seriously and commit to their studies. “If our students can read for one hour a day for junior secondary, and two hours a day for senior secondary students they can pass their examinations,” he said.
The lecture was graced by distinguished alumni like Mr. Winston Amachree, Mr. Yinka Coker, Mr. Emmanuel Obe and Mr. Izontimi Otuogha, the National Public Relations Offcier of the Baptist High School Old Students Association.
