Bishop (Dr.) Tom Samson, one
of Naija’s most charismatic men of God, is the presiding Bishop and General
Overseer of Christ Royal Family International Church headquatered in Ikeja,
Lagos. He has been running his ministry for well over twenty years, doing great
exploits and winning souls for God’s kingdom. His annual hugely popular
programme tagged, ‘It Is War’, has grown to become a phenomenal success, having
been running back to back for nineteen years. Apart from running his
flourishing ministry, many don’t know that Bishop Tom Samson is also an
entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has invested heavily in education, boasting
of ten secondary schools, college of education and a hospital.
The big news is that this incredibly
gifted man of God has officially established a university, adding this huge
feather to his long list of accomplishments. This new citadel of learning is
called Monarch University, located at Iyesi-Ota, Ogun state. Admission is now
open to the public and from information available to the Prime Citizen, there
has been a big rush for admission to the school. And that’s not a surprise in
itself. Those who know Bishop Tom Samson closely know he is a stickler for
quality and standard. He does not do things in half measures, he is a firm
adherent to the phrase, ‘whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.’
This is the reason why many parents are now taking their kids to Monarch
University, confident that the man of God will not compromise on quality, he
will certainly bring in trained and quality personel to the institution to
nurture the students and transformj thewm into men and women of substance. And
from the brilliance of the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Monarch University, Prof.
Olaleke Ogunnaike, and other top Executives of Monarch University who spoke at
the press briefing last week organised to formally present the institution to
the public, there was no doubt that Bishop (Dr.) Tom Samson had assemble the
best hands to run the university.
Hear the Deputy Vic e
Chancellor, Prof. Olaleke: “At Monarch University, our curricullum is well
crafted because we have our own goal, we have our own vision, and we have our
own mission. And we believe that at the end of the four years, we are going to produce
graduates that will go out there and not just morally robust, not just
spiritually developed, but they have the entrepreneurial acumen. They go out
there not just as job seekers, but they are the ones that will provide
platforms even for others and employ them. As a way of being specific, our
mission, the mission statement of the university, is to produce knowledgeable
and skilful graduates that are equipped through functional education, value
reorientation to effectively harness the environment and act as a catalyst for
the development of the Nigerian society and humanity at large.We are not shying
away from the fact that we are Christian universities, and we are saying in the
agenda of God, what we say is the earnest expectation, waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of God. And it is not only by spiritual development,
we are saying even man is trepidating nature.”
“So while we are looking at
this issue, we believe strongly that even the mind must be properly equipped so
that it will go there and manifest, just as the Bible has said.And our vision
of the university is to be a university that provides opportunities for the
inculcation of academic excellence and positive value, value reorientation
through acquisition, conservation, dissemination and application of knowledge
for the production of globally competitive graduates. All what we are saying is
that our curriculum is so robust, we are going to be very heavy on
entrepreneurship. And when we talk about entrepreneurship, we are talking about
the fact that our curriculum has been crafted in such a way that we take people
through the entrepreneurial process. We start from what we call education,
opportunity identification, and so on and so forth. So we have what we call
pre-incubation phase, we have incubation phase, and we have post-incubation
phase. First is, how do I generate business ideas? When you generate business
ideas, how do I announce these ideas and verify these ideas to become
opportunity? Take advantage of the opportunity.”
“All of these have been
properly integrated into our curriculum. And if you look at our courses, we
have a good number of courses that are deliberately put together because of
what we are out to do. Now we have accounting, we have entrepreneurship, we are
going to run business economics, banking and finance, criminology and security
studies, sociology, mass communication, business administration. All of these,
they belong, they are under a faculty that we call Faculty of Humanities,
Management and Social Sciences. Then we have the second faculty, we call it
Faculty of Basic and Applied Science. Those are the two faculties we are
starting with.And under that, we have the following programs. We have
Biotechnology, that will be under the Department of Biological Sciences. And
then we have Data Science, we have Cyber Security, we have Computer Science, we
have Software Engineering, we have Information Technology.If you look at all of
them, you will see that we are talking about IT-based, IT-driven universities.
Why? Because the university is widely equipped, you know, to produce persons that
will have these in-demand skills to go out there. And not just entrepreneurs,
but intrapreneurs.These are persons that are value carriers.”
“It's not everybody that can
become intrapreneurs, but even in that organization where you are working, you
should be able to add value. These are intrapreneurs.So we believe that persons
that will pass through the crucible of Monarch University, they are individuals
that will not just be spiritually sound, but they will be individuals that will
turn out to be value-adding individuals.”
Other senior personel of
Monarch University spoke at the press briefing. They are Dr. Clement Omagbemi,
the University Librarian, Ebenezer Bamidele Obidare and Rev. Eugene Emiyeze,
the Chaplain. They all spoke brilliantly. Everyone was impressed with the confidence
and quality they exuded.
The Monarch Unmiversity whose
slogan is, Raising leaders, building character, already offer a wide range of
courses ranging from Accounting, Economics, Criminology and security studies,
Mass Communication, etc. The Monarch University has state-of-the-art equipments
and breathtaking infrastructure, including the indoor section, and these facilities
have never ceased to impress many.
Contact them at: *234 8033278474,
*234 8138716306, *234 8107968374
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