Kate Henshaw tells undergrads how they can make it in life

She spoke to a large congregation of University of Calabar students under the auspices of Women In Business and Management (WIMBIZ) held inside the International Conference Centre of the university in order to encourage young people especially students to train their minds at excelling.“Peer pressure has both negative and positive advantages.  It has greatly influenced […]

She spoke to a large congregation of University of Calabar students under the auspices of Women In Business and Management (WIMBIZ) held inside the International Conference Centre of the university in order to encourage young people especially students to train their minds at excelling.
“Peer pressure has both negative and positive advantages.  It has greatly influenced many young people which reason they have either derailed or excelled in their chosen careers depending on which side you cling to,” she said.
Henshaw urged the students and other young people to flee undue pressure from their mates but to focus their minds at any positive things or models they have admired, citing herself as a good example.
Henshaw said   though education holds the key to many doors of progress but personal characteristics, hard work and association have great roles to play in the  lives of young people, advising that they must train their minds at positive things.
“From the onset even before my University days, which incidentally were in this same campus, I had trained my mind at making positive progress in life that may have informed why in my younger days I got involved in different kinds of sports, enterprises and I strived to make out the best in these different areas.
“I want to urge you to be industrious and focused. But if you emulate different kinds of influences that are negative I can assure that you won’t make any enduring progress. On the other hand, if you decide to be positive in your dealing and thinking; taking after a particular person you like whose works are positive and outstanding, there is no way you won’t go even farther”, she said.
Also speaking, one of the senior partners of WIMBIZ, Mrs Julia Oku-Jacks stressed on the need for the students to build personal brands and taking aftr the models they admire as this would also make them stand out.
Mrs. Bisola Onajiri who is a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt who spoke on Health and Youth Risk also urged Nigerian youths to flee smoking, gangsterism and lay emphasis on importance quality food and sleep as these can enable them to concentrate better.  She said permissiveness, ‘useless sex’ and drugs can stall their education.