Light in the Dark Continent by OCHEJA MARIA

“Covenant University is not only raising a new generation of leaders and releasing Eagles but also producing World changers who would become a Total man and also redeem the image of the Black man”. This was the quote of the Director of the Centre for Research and Development Centre in Covenant University, Professor Echeme John Bull.

Over time and beyond, unimaginable inventions have surfaced the globe but there are some unmentionable ones that DLAMS trailed and sourced information on- on the 18^th of November, 2011.

This trail took us to the Covenant University platform where we discovered that there was a possibility for a Generator to work with Bio mass and still function most effectively; other inventions included Poca tea from paw-paw, Granular rice from Rice and the Traffic invention for the time being of which there are more inventions to come up.

My stand here becomes, just as the Chancellor of Covenant University; Dr David Oyedepo ably quoted by the Director, Professor Echeme, “it must not be white to be right”. This is no wrong as it is evident in the researches that have taken their toll in Covenant University.

The Black man has also based himself on the same equilibrium with the White man on the Science and Technology platform. This has brought advancement and respect to the table of the Blacks where we are no longer looked down upon because of our complexion rather we are judged via the content of not only our character but also by the contents of our intellect and intelligibility.

Creating a fuel less generator, bringing about a traffic light that can catch rule breakers, distilling paw-paw to tea and wine, and drinking rice in any form in its granulated form and carefully using machines to step the processes that are involved is a top class addition for the Black Man. This kind of event should take the Nation from developing to developed because this indeed is an eye opener for the globe and not Nigeria alone.

Nigeria can boast of technological advancement on this platform and it is evident that it is moving the country from third world to first world and the image of the Black man is indeed coming through the doors of redemption.

Needless to say that it must not be white to be right, it can be Black to be actually beautiful and light can actually shine in a continent that was termed Dark and Barbaric. Science Researches and Technology has elapsed in Nigeria with Covenant University bringing it to reality.

As Marshall McLuhan the father of Globalization said that the world is becoming a global village and bringing a breach in barriers of communication, so is Science and Technology present as a branch of globalization and acting as a tool that is used in breaching this gap and the Black Man has made the most effective use of this tool.