In a powerful convergence of faith, scholarship, and entrepreneurial vision, Bingham University’s Faculty of Administration, through its Entrepreneurship Department, partnered with the Innovation and Creative Education Foundation (ICEF) to mark World Creativity and Innovation Day 2026.
The event which focused on ‘Imagine, Create and transform:
The Building Blocks for Entrepreneur’s
Success’, drew academics, students, and industry thinkers from across the region to reflect and inspire young people and leaders towards greatness.
Bingham University Vice Chancellor, Professor Haruna Kuje Ayuba, in a stirring welcome address, charged students and faculty members never to lose sight of the limitless abilities God has installed in them and every human being in creative thinking. In demonstrating these abilities, He said, the individuals will need to commit to positive imagination and be creative in solving problems around them.
Professor Ayuba who drew from God’s wisdom to inspire breakthrough thinking, framed the call for creativity through a Biblical lens of will, mind, and determination.
“Scripture tells us that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he,” Professor Ayuba declared, referencing Proverbs 23:7. “The will to create, the mind to conceive what has never been, and the determination to see it through – these are not modern management theories. They are ancient, God-given tools for dominion. Today, we are not just celebrating ideas. We are reclaiming a mandate.”
The Vice Chancellor’s address set the tone for a day that deliberately blurred the lines between spiritual conviction and practical innovation. He challenged students and faculty to move beyond incremental thinking, urging them to see creativity as an act of faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of solutions not yet seen.
“The world does not need more copies. It needs originals. “Let your will be fired by purpose. Let your mind be disciplined by truth. And let your determination outlast every no. That is the Bingham difference,” Professor the Vice Chancellor declared to the students.
The event’s facilitator, Muyiwa Fasakin, a renowned innovation strategist and creative educator and coach, took the baton from there.
Fasakin disclosed that Bingham University is lucky to be the first university in Nigeria that the Innovation and Creative Education Foundation (ICEF), which is an arm of the United Nations, is partnering with to commerorate the World Creative and Innovation day.
Leading a high-energy, interactive session titled “Creative Intelligence for Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs,” Fasakin guided participants through design-thinking workshops, disruptive ideation challenges, and real-world case studies on how Nigerian startups have turned constraints into competitive advantages.
He said Students and every citizen of worth must continue to imagine, everything, anything and something which they believe can add value to humanity. “It is a process that should start with ideas, values, solutions, looking into the future, the environment and the world at large.”
“Professor Ayuba gave us the why – the spiritual and psychological foundation. Now let’s talk about the how,” Fasakin told the packed auditorium.
He opined that a successful Entrepreneur is someone who identifies opportunites, solves problems creatively and build a profitable and sustainable Business.
He stated that the determination to remain on course despite multiple hurdles that will up is what brings out the success or grateness. “Determination without method burns out. Will without a roadmap wanders. We are marrying the biblical triad of will, mind, and determination with the hard skills of prototyping, iteration, and market empathy,” he theorized.
He advised the students to also focus on building digital skills which will enable them to take on high paying remote jobs that would not affect their academic performance.
Throughout the day, teams of students from Bingham’s entrepreneurship program engaged the facilitator in thought provoking business ideas and how as students they could implement them without obstructing their academic commitments. There were also exhibited ventures at the event centre, ranging from designer and customized shoes, bags, fashion and confectionery products, produced by the Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership Studies (CIELS) of the university.
Professor, Benshima Orbunde, Dean of the Faculty of Administration, in a closing remark, praised the quality of the facilitator’s delivery and the enthusiastic questions from students, saying that, “This is what world-class entrepreneurial education looks like: rooted in values, unafraid of faith, and relentlessly practical. Our students will certainly graduate not just with grades, but with a conviction that creativity is their birthright.”
World Creativity and Innovation Day, officially observed on April 21 by the United Nations, aims to encourage creative problem-solving across all sectors. Bingham University’s 2026 celebration stood out for its unabashed integration of spiritual wisdom with contemporary entrepreneurial practice – a model that speakers suggested could redefine how Nigerian universities approach innovation pedagogy.
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