By Tare Youdeowei

A Professor of Accounting and Finance at the   Department of Accounting, College of Management and Social Sciences, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State,   has charged PhD Accounting students of the institution to build   character and as well focus on their dreams, just as he said that they should work on getting there because according to him,   there would be a time that you may ask yourself and really know what you want in life.

Prof. Akintoye gave the charge in his welcome address to Facilitators from Federal, State and Private Universities and students of Babcock University School of Postgraduate Studies during the PhD Seminar week.

He said that the programme, PhD Accounting, approved by the National UniversitiesCommission( NUC)   in year 2015 was conceived as much as possible in raising the bar of academic performance and prowess in Accounting research, adding that the institution is keen in piloting high impact research   designed on a path of academic integrity and excellence in Accounting education.

Continuing, “We are not just one of the private universities who are desperate in the money-making business and thereby reducing standard from globally acceptable basic minimum, but one where excellence is our watchword and global best practices is our benchmark”. Akintoye said.

He opined   that things have gone so bad in somehigher institutions in Nigeria,making it almost impossible for those who are battling with the menace in Federal and State Universities to ever think that anything good can come out of “Nazareth” – Private Universities, but affirms that the institution will continue to leverage on its conviction and the academic scholarship of prominent scholars from Federal, State and Private Universities   to advance the course of academic destiny of upcoming scholars.

He further informed the PhD Accounting students that there is no doubt that the journey to success and personal development is always lonely and long, where one even doubts self whether he/she is on the right track or not, but nevertheless praised the courage and perseverance   of the PhD Accounting students that kept them on the program for the semester.