NSASA OAU LORD CHANCELLOR'S WELCOME ADDRESS

NIGERIAN SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION JUDICIAL COUNCIL

Many are called but few were chosen. In lieu of this, it behove us to send a congratulatory message to the chosen one's. Its with great pleasure that we at the Judicial arm of the aforementioned association welcome you to campus (Freshers and Stalites) to another academic year 2017/2018 session at  Obafemi Awolowo University.

To the Freshers, we welcome you and advice you to stay focus and keep your head straight and believe in yourself and with the help of the Almighty God, you are not just studying but going to gain more skills needed in the labour market and also make a good grade that will open the door to employment as soon as you are graduating. As part of the experience, you also will find camaraderie among peers who share your same interests.

You have the opportunity to meet new people and gain valuable life skills through hundreds of active campus organizations and countless volunteer opportunities, as well as other social, cultural, and recreational curricular activities.

These four years maybe the deciding years of your life giving you an opportunity to become someone you never were, for perhaps u can never be, but at least you can try to. So explore yourself, extend your limits, and above all challenge your capabilities.

Whether on or off campus, we ask that you uphold the integrity of our great department. We ask you to join with us in preserving the values we cherish as an academic institution, fostering an atmosphere that is respectful, supportive, and welcoming to all.

To the stalite, for as many that are not familiar with their  handbook, there is need for you to find it and work along side with it because it contains the details of what the semester holds and things to expect from various lecturers and also it helps you to further research into the course more better for personal improvement beyond what is taught in the four walls of the classroom. Please bear it in mind that the due of the Association is now #1000,let's make this available to the Excos for easy running of the association.

We wish you an hitch free academic session.

An exciting year awaits you! We are so proud to have you with us.

NSASA OAU SPEAKER'S WELCOME ADDRESS

NIGERIAN SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL (NSASARC OAU)

On behalf of the entire members of the prestigious department of SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, I would like to officially welcome all newly admitted students of OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY into the University community. Most especially to students admitted into the above mentioned leading department of conscious students, I welcome you all into the comity of social reformers. I appreciate your patience overtime as you all have waited quite long to witness this moment of joy and I pray you would always have cause to rejoice over this moments and it would forever remain as good memories.

My message to you all is very simple and succinct which is, do not be too overwhelmed, do not be carried away for the pleasures that accompany resumption into a university environment is quite much. Many of you would be tapping into a high level of freedom which you have been craving for but beware for in as much as freedom is good it is also very dangerous and difficult to manage. Remember, that for every activity or extracurricular activity that you would be or willing to engage yourself in is only possible because you are initially admitted as student, therefore your academics is important and should be of utmost priority. It can not be over emphasized that the foundation you lay academic wise during your first year on campus goes a long way in determining how far you would go and how well you would be at the end of the race. As a result of this it is very imperative that this opportunity giving to you which many out there are seeking for, you utilize judiciously and you give it your best shot. I pray that the strength and wisdom to excel and thrive well in this phase of your earthly sojourn would be granted to you.

To my fellow stale students, I believe we have enjoyed our long vacation. I am convinced that we have utilized it in the best way we can. As we prepare our minds to resume back to campus, I hope we have been rejuvenated in our minds, strength and wisdom so as to forge ahead in achieving our set goals. The fact that we still have the rare opportunity to resume back to campus as students is a privilege for our aspirations to be renewed, passions reignited and our objectives reassessed. At this point I wish everyone of us, freshmen and stalites all the very best life and the OAU community as to offer us.

Thank you and God bless us all.

Yours in service

©RT HON FADARE Babawale Oluwatosin

SPEAKER NSASARC

NSASA OAU PRESIDENT'S WELCOME ADDRESS

NIGERIAN SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, OAU CHAPTER

Greatest reformers! Articulate reformers!! It is our pleasure to dearly welcome freshmen and satalites to (ogba femi, Oba awon universities), the citadel of learning and culture. OAU is indeed known for learning and culture, these two attributes makes it special, significant, and respectful in Nigeria, and Africa as a whole. Our brilliant lecturers can not be exempted from this glory, their impactations have  made us, built us, and giving us the independent mindset and boldness in the practical world. In term of technology, research, discipline, culture, architecture, OAU can not but take a lead in Africa.

MESSAGE TO FRESHERS

To our beloved freshers, we congratulates you once again on your admission into OAU, particularly, into the prestigious department, sociology and anthropology department. There are basics realities you must know, and adherence to them, will sustain you throughout your stay on campus.

▪Firstly, you must know that, your admission into OAU is by grace, we beg you, maximize this grace. Be ready to learn, and be diligent in all. Give priority to your academic. There are many things awaiting to catch your attention here on campus. You must be able to draw your scale of preference, and put them in order of importance. The Bible says, life and death has been set before you, but choose life. We beg you to choose your academic above all things, knowing fully well that, without your admission here on campus, you can not get involved in them.

▪Lean on God in all your endeavors. This aspect is very crucial. Have seen people who read all days, but still failed or have less to expectations, why have also seen people who read a little, lean on God rather than their understanding, and come out excellently. This part is not a reason for idleness in your study, but the point here is, lean on God. I could recall what our former President (Olaniyi Dare) told me, he said, only reading is not enough to succeed on this campus, but you need God.

▪Cultism, malpractice, assault to one another, and all other form of social vices are highly prohibited here, kindly run from such act or people of such, punishment allocated to this act is unforgivable.

▪Be free free to report any arrestment, treat from other students or any personal issue to excos or staff advisers. All our lecturers are fathers and mothers, don't allow anybody to scare you. None of them delight in your failure, nevertheless,  work hard.

▪Lastly, best students are not born, but they are made, the making is done by you. Choose to be the best today .

MESSAGE TO STALITES

The prize is not for the beginners, but for they that persevered to the end. Let's put more zeal to this race, let's not allow weariness to set in. There is no doubt that, effort can be frustrated. Frustration leads to weariness, and weariness can makes someone to give up. I pray that, this will not be our portion. If you didn't do well in part one, you can make it up in part two, if part two turned you down, part three and four can lift you. The point is, we must be diligent to the end.

Greatest reformers!  Articulate reformers!! We must work together to make NSASA OAU great again, this can not be achieved by apathy, our full participation is inevitable, therefore let's put personal interest aside, and put on the interest of the association, let's put on the garment of unity, we must not deviate from our motto : Quest for social reformation. At this point, we which you all a successful session. Thank you.

COURTESY: TEAM PROFICIO '18