Veritas University Graduates 141 Students

University, Bwari, Abuja, On Saturday AwardCertificates To 141 Graduating Students For Its 2017/18 Academic Session

The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)  reports that the University at its 7th Convocation ceremony held in Abuja, said a total of 109 students in various courses graduated with First Degree.

Also, 32 students graduated from both Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s Degree programmes for 2017/2018 session.

Ten out of the 109 undergraduates made First class while 48 made Second Class Upper among others.of the institution, Prof. Hyacinth Ichoku, said that the school had over the last 10 years offered courses in five key colleges, namely, Arts, Education, Management Sciences, Natural Sciences and the Post Graduate college.

According to him, there were over 30 undergraduate and 15 Post Graduate programmes currently in the university, which have passed the National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation and resource verification in 2019.

He noted that the school was working tirelessly to establish a College of Law in its next academic session and a College of Medicine in its subsequent academic session.

He said: “We are working with the Association of Catholic Lawyers and Association of Catholic Medical Practitioners to realise these dreams.

“Our overall goal in all courses in the university is to combine both theoretical and professional approaches in all disciplines of the university.

“For example, we are working with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria to accredit our Accounts Department so that the graduates can become Chartered Accountants immediately they graduate.

“In this way, we are preparing our students not just to pass but also for the future as professionals in their fields of study.”

Prof. Ichoku also said that the school was working with international organisations to establish Veritas Radio and Television stations in the Department of Mass Communication.

He further explained that the project, which is expected to cost N35 million, would give the opportunity for Mass Communication students in the school to learn communication hands-on.

While congratulating the graduating students for their achievements,he urged them to apply  all they learnt in the schools to their everyday life.

Also speaking, the Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of Governing Council of the institution, Most Rev. Prof. Godfrey I. Onah on his address said that the focus of the present Governing Council of the school was to consolidate on the successes of previous councils by stabilizing the University.

He also said that the main goal of the council was also to move the school properly into its second phase of development.

“The focus is to vigorously pursue the commencement of professional programmes in Law, Medicine, Pharmacy and Engineering.

“Conscious of the peculiar character of the University as a Catholic school, we are equally working towards the establishment of an Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology.

“We believe that the school needs to expand its physical facilities to accommodate the establishment of these programmes which are yearnings of many,” he said.

Prof. Onah urged the graduating students to go into the labour market, as ambassadors of the school and make positive and meaningful impact.

NAN reports that the students graduated from the colleges of Education, Humanities, Management sciences, Natural Applied sciences and Social sciences in both undergraduate and Post Graduate fields.

Tension as Gunmen Storm Veritas University and made way with Catholic Priest

It was a great tragedy on Monday 7^th April 2018 at Veritas University Abuja (The Catholic University of Nigeria) located at Bwari Area Council Zuma II when unknown Gunmen attacked the Institution.

The Gunmen stormed the University around 12 mid-night with many shots in the air clearing road or scaring the security personnel’s away to their destination. They matched to the Priests house which is located opposite the institution main Gate and mad way with the Priest.

Fr. Dr. Basil Ekot

The kidnapped lecturer, Rev. Fr. Dr. Basil A. Ekot is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy and personal assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the Institution. He hails from Ikot Imoh in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. Fr. Dr. Ekot is a Catholic priest of the diocese of Uyo. He studied at Bigard Memorial Seminary Ikot Ekpene and Enugu where he obtained a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1982 and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1988 respectively.

Stating how the event took place a student who was in the class preparing for his Monday morning test said and I quote; “I was in the class reading my note for my Monday test when I heard the sound of the gunshot, I was shocked because such sound is rear around the school premises, on hearing the sound frequently I had to pack my books and run back to my hostel more tension on me when I was going back to my hostel the security check points in our school premises there Were nobody as at the time though I was even the one to inform my roommates.  For us to come for class on Monday  and the news of Fr. Ekot is already everywhere.”

Another student who also heard the same similar experience said that  he was researching for Fr. Ekots assignment which will be submitted on Tuesday when he heard the acclamation of the bullet in the air he has to abandon everything back to his hostel on reaching his hostel, his roommate has already gone under their bed that is telling you how heavy the sound of the gun shot was.

As it stands now the management has made contact with the kidnappers but where advised to stay out of comment for healthy release of the victim.

The Registrar also who make an appeal to the Campus to pray for the healthy release of Rev. Fr. Dr. Basil Ekot said they were able to speak with Fr. Ekot on Tuesday morning and he is requesting for prayer.

We will keep you posted. And please don’t forget to pray for Rev. Fr. Basil Ekot for his healthy release and as soon as possible.
#VUNAGIST @Vunaverified.

How to Take Action When Your Mind Won't Let You

It's just another idle Tuesday, and I have a simple (but not easy) challenge for you... Stop believing you should feel more confident before you take the next step….. Taking the next step is what builds your confidence. Meditate of that for a moment, and then force yourself forward. You don’t need to have everything you want to achieve mapped out. And you know what "next step" I'm referring to—that important one you're just not quite “ready” to take yet... the one you keep waiting for the "right" time to take. Well, it's time! It's time to allow yourself to be a beginner. Because no one starts off being great. And no one is perfect every step of the way. We all learn the way on the way. So, do the best you can until you know better. Once you know better, do better. Seriously, learn to start every day before you feel ready, and I promise you will learn how to succeed, step by step, before you even realize you’re good enough. Ask any parent if they felt 100% ready for the arrival of their first child (or their first day as the parent of a 3-year-old, a 13-year-old, or a 23-year-old ). The answer will always be “no.” They just do the best they can to take the next step, and then they figure it out from there. No matter what it is, you just need to get started—to make “starting” a daily ritual. Because standing still, you have no momentum. Momentum and progress are what build confidence and erode apprehension. Rituals put you in motion without having to think (and over-think) about the next move. You decided long before you acted—now you just act. And you act intentionally. And when you act in this way, you make the most rewarding progress imaginable, every single day.Learn how we’ve changed hundreds of lives—including our own—with these simple (but not easy) movements that orient our actions and help us begin each day with intention, and end each day with satisfaction.

One Reason Your Life Is Way Harder Than It Has To Be by Clintonfaze

Busyness!

Think about it…

“I’m busy!”


How often is that your excuse?

It used to be my excuse every single day. My schedule used to leave me zero time for unplanned presence and awareness.

And I was proud of my busyness. I wore it like a badge!

“Didn’t you hear me? I am super busy, everybody! Keep this in mind, and have mercy on me! Please!”

Yes, that’s exactly what I used to want you to know about me…

But not anymore.

Now I actually pause, just to be and breathe. And I’m proud of it.

Here’s the thing: Busyness is NOT a badge of honor. There’s no honor at all in busyness.

Busyness is just an illness that makes everything harder than it has to be.

Busy for the Sake of Busy

If we’re not below the poverty line, juggling three jobs at once just to put food on the table, then our busyness is self-inflicted 98% of the time (the exception being that 2% of the time that a random series of incredibly difficult life events blindsides us).

I finally got a handle on my busyness when I studied it long enough to realize that, yes… my busyness was within my control. In fact, most of the time I actually created hurry and worry where none really existed. On any normal weekday, you would have found me running around begging family, business associates, and basically everyone nearby to move faster…

“If you don’t finish eating, we’re going to be late!”

“If we don’t get this task done in the next hour… we’re never going to hit our target!”

The funny thing is, whether I provoked everyone around me to move faster or not, we always collectively moved at about the same pace anyway. But when I provoked them, everyone (including myself) was unhappier.

It became crystal clear to me that nearly all of my busyness was an overreaction in my head. I was manufacturing it in hopes that it would create urgency in others, and somehow make my life easier. Instead, it did the exact opposite—my busyness only created anxiety, bitterness and complexity. And even on days when there really were lots of things to do, it was typically due to an overbooked schedule I had personally (and mindlessly) created.

All of this got me thinking:

Why in the world am I voluntarily making my life harder, busier and unhappier than it has to be?

The Reason and Answer for Needless Busyness (and Misery)

Sadly, a big part of the reason we fill our lives with needless busyness has to do with the always-connected, always-sharing, always-comparing society we live in.

We default to defining ourselves based on where we are and what we have in relation to everyone else.

If we don’t have a “better” career, house, car, or pair of shoes, we feel inferior. And the only way we can possibly do better, is to be busier doing… whatever! After all, we are what we do, right? Job title, employer… Aren’t these typically the first things we share with strangers we meet at parties?

We fill our Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat feeds, and our calendars, with manufactured busyness to avoid just being exactly who we are, exactly where we are. In the process, we not only miss out on the serenity and beauty that exists within ourselves, but we also miss out on experiencing that same serenity and beauty in the world around us, because our busyness has buried it with “hurry” and “worry,” and the endless need to be somewhere else, doing something else, as fast as feasibly possible.

Ready for a positive change in your life?

Join me, and let’s start mindfully letting our needless busyness and stress GO!

Let’s start CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK about all the things we "should" be doing, so we can start doing the right things, and actually live better lives.

Letter to Those Who've Lost Their Motivation

Dear CLINT

There’s so much I still want to create and foster in my life, and yet I feel utterly beaten down. I feel like I have nothing left to work with. I’ve been through a lot on my journey thus far, and I’m now at a point where I’ve lost all my motivation – I just can’t seem to find the external and internal sources of motivation I used to have. Do you have any wisdom you could share?

Sincerely,
A Discouraged Student

This email was inspired by another email we received this morning from a new course student:

Our reply (an open reply to all who have lost their motivation):

Dear Discouraged Student,It’s time for a quick story about life…

Once upon a time there was a woman in her mid sixties who noticed that she had lived her entire life in the same small town. And although she had spent decades enthusiastically dreaming about traveling and seeing the world, she had never taken a single step to make this dream a reality.

Finally, she woke up on the morning of her 65th birthday and decided that now was the time! She sold all of her possessions except for some essential items she needed, packed these items into a backpack, and began her journey out into the world. The first several days on the road were amazing and filled with awe – with every step forward she felt like she was finally living the life she had dreamed.

But a few short weeks later, the days on the road started taking a toll on her. She felt misplaced and she missed the familiar comforts of her old life. As her feet and legs grew more and more sore with each new step, her mood also took a turn for the worse.

Eventually she stopped walking, took off her backpack, slammed it on the ground, and sat down beside it as tears began streaming down her cheeks. She stared hopelessly down a long winding road that once led to an amazing world, but now seemed to lead only to discomfort and unhappiness. “I have nothing! I have nothing left in my life!” she shouted out loud at the top of her lungs.

Coincidentally, a renowned guru and life adviser from a nearby village was resting quietly behind a pine tree adjacent to where the woman was sitting. When the woman began shouting, the guru heard every word and he felt it was his duty to help her. Without thinking twice he jumped out from behind the pine tree, grabbed her backpack, and ran into the forest that lined both sides of the road. Stunned and in complete disbelief, the woman started crying even harder than before, to the point of near breathlessness.

“That backpack was all I had,” she cried.” And now it’s gone! Now everything is gone in my life!”

After about ten minutes of much-needed tears, the woman gradually collected her emotions, stood up again and began staggering slowly down the road. Meanwhile the guru cut through the forest and secretly placed the backpack in the middle of the road just a short distance ahead of the woman.

When the woman’s teary eyes fell upon the backpack, she almost couldn’t believe what she was seeing – everything she thought she had just lost was once again right in front of her. She couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear. “Oh, thank heavens!” the woman exclaimed. “I am so grateful! Now I definitely have what I need to continue onward…”

REMEMBER:

As we journey through our personal and professional lives, there will inevitably be periods of incredible frustration and despair. During those tough times, it will sometimes appear to us that we’ve lost everything, and that nothing and nobody could possibly motivate us to move onward in the direction of our dreams. But just like the woman who stumbled across the guru, we are all holding with us a backpack of support that comes in many forms – it can be a simple email or text message from someone we respect, inspiring blog posts, insightful books, helpful neighbors, and so much more.

When we are feeling discouraged and demotivated, our opportunity is twofold:

• To recognize and appreciate our backpack of support – our external sources of motivation – before a random guru (or someone with far more crooked intentions) has to steal it from us so that we can finally see what we have always taken for granted.
• To be present and tap into our own hearts and minds – our internal sources of motivation – which have the power to push us back up on our feet and guide us down the road to our backpack of support, even when it appears to be lost forever.

No matter your circumstances, you always have what you need to take the next smallest step.

As Epicurus so profoundly said, “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Be mindful. Be present.

Keep going.

How to Change the Way You Think About the Things You Can't Change

Ready for the truth?

Most of your stress comes from the way you  respond, not the way life is. And when you adjust your thinking, all that extra stress is gone.

There is a real opportunity in every difficult situation to understand yourself more deeply, and also to improve your life.

I encourage you to reflect on recent situations where you’ve felt let down – where life’s outcomes were nowhere near as good as you expected. Rather than focusing on the uncontrollable things that were “done to you,” consider instead your part in what went down. For example, perhaps your gut told you not to do something, but you did so anyway. Or maybe you were deceived a second time by the same person, and wish you had let go of the relationship sooner. Or perhaps you just weren’t paying attention and ended up missing out on a great opportunity.

It’s so easy to be negative when things go wrong, or blame others for negative outcomes in your life. But do negativity and blame change anything for the better?

No!

Truth be told, the best time to be positive and take responsibility for your own peace of mind is when you don’t feel like it. Because that’s when doing so can make the biggest difference.

No matter what the specifics of your troubled times are, taking a moment to look inward at what you could have done differently and how you could potentially avoid similar situations in the future can be a healthy exercise. This is not to blame yourself or shame yourself, but simply to give you the opportunity to learn, on a higher level, from your experiences.

It’s about learning to choose the most effective response in a difficult, uncontrollable life situation.

It’s about learning to think better so you can ultimately live better, no matter what.

The key is to realize that no matter what happens, you can choose your attitude and inner dialog, which dictates pretty much everything that happens next. Truly, the greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another – to train our minds to see the good in what we’ve got, even when it’s far less than we expected.

It’s about choosing: Will I allow this to upset me? Will I choose to make this bad or good? Will I choose to stay or walk away? Will I choose to yell or whisper? Will I choose to react or take the time to respond?

When our Getting Back to Happy course students come to us feeling down about a life situation they can’t control, we typically start by reinforcing the hard truth: sometimes changing your situation isn’t possible – or simply not possible soon enough. You can’t get to a new job in an instant. You can’t make someone else change against his or her will. And you certainly can’t erase the past. But...

You CAN always choose a mindset that moves you forward. And doing so will help you change things from the inside out, and ultimately allow you to grow beyond the struggles you can’t control at this moment.

Here's a powerful question that will support you with a positive attitude adjustment when you need it most:

Who would you be, and what else would you see, if you removed the thought that’s worrying you?

Think about it...

Identify a specific thought that’s been troubling your worried mind lately, and then visualize how your life would be different if you removed this thought:

• How would it change your outlook on your present life situation?
• What other possibilities and opportunities might you see?
• What else would you be able to accomplish with this shift in your focus?

Steps to Fix Windows Defender Error Code: 0x80073b01 in Windows 8.1 Fix Window PC Error

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Windows defender is a an inbuilt feature of Windows 8.1 operating system, through this powerful feature one can protect their computer from malware, viruses, spyware and other malicious attacks. But sometime due to any internal error this inbuilt application may get damaged and start showing errors like error 577 or Code 0x80073b01. Don’t worry because you can fix this error without need of any professional skill. Few methods are given below apply them to fix this issue:

Edit Windows Registry Database

Generally Error code 0x80073b01 occurs because of damaged registry. To repair Windows registry corruption, apply the below given method:

• First you have to open the Windows Registry Editor: to do this Press Windows Key + R  this will open the Run Windows, at this window type Regedit and press Enter
• Now search and find the below given keys and delete msseces.exe:
• “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Image File Execution Options\  ” and delete the entry msseces.exe and
• “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun” and delete the entry msseces.exe.
• After doing all the above given steps restart your computer. Try to open Windows Defender/Security Essential.

Run System File Checker

The SFC or System file checker is designed to scan the windows files and verifies the integrity of important system files. This is an inbuilt Windows mechanism that helps user to fix any damaged or corrupt System file. Execution of this inbuilt feature is really very easy, methods are given below apply them carefully.

• Open the command prompt with the administrator privileges, open the run Window and type cmd and hit enter
• In this window type sfc/scannow and press enter
• It take little time to complete the scan of corrupt system file, it also fixed them if any damaged files are found.
• After it try to open Windows Defender

If you are still unable to fix Defender Error then you need a professional tool to fix Defender Error code 0x80073b01

. This is the way through which one can easily get rid of this error, run this tool and it will take few seconds to remove any Windows error. The best part of this tool is, it doesn’t need any professional skill or you don’t need to type any command.