ADDRESS DELIVERED BY THE VICE CHANCELLOR, PROFESSOR NOSA OWENS-IBIE AT THE 11 TH CONVOCATION OF CALEB UNIVERSITY, ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25, 2022 AT THE UNIVERSITY MULTIPURPOSE HALL, IMOTA, LAGOS, NIGERIA

His Excellency, The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Honourable Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu
Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Prof Abubakar Adamu Rasheed
Commissioners
Our distinguished Convocation Lecturer and Executive Chairman, Atlantic International 
Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd, Dr Akintoye Akindele
The Proprietor & Visitor, Dr (Prince) Oladega Adebogun
Chairman and Members of the Caleb University Board of Trustees.
Chancellor, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark
Pro-Chancellor, Chairman of Council and Members
Members of University Senate and Congregation
Our revered Traditional Rulers
Fellow Vice-Chancellors and Registrars of other Universities
Eminent Citizens and leaders of collaborating professional bodies
Our dear Parents of the graduating class and other students
Members of the 2021 Graduating Class
Gentlemen of the Press
Ladies and Gentlemen

CHANGING WITHOUT GAMES

We give God all the glory (2ce)
We give you honour

The Way it Works:
At 12.30pm on Saturday, February 19, I watched a 2015 YouTube video forwarded by a good friend, on  a platform we both belong to. It was about Arise News winning its first Emmy Award, during the 58th Annual Emmy Awards, with a documentary titled “Game Changer: How the Harlem Globetrotters  Battled Racism”. The award was won in the Nostalgia Programme category, and Alan Weiss was the  Executive Producer.

The Harlem Globetrotters defined new vistas for basketball, but achieved that in the crucible of entrenched disabilities and marginalisations which a principality called racism, stoked. The world has witnessed a league of persons (and organisations) who have defined history with irrefutable milestones in their trail, shaping the course of civilisation. Because of the dynamics of history and its transitions, actors keep changing with episodes and scenes. 

Game changers are therefore, the elixir of development, and they foster change, real change. But change is not always about games. In fact, the profundity of change and how it happens, takes it away from the theatre of games, and as the world evolves, changing is becoming less and less a matter of games.