Prof Moses Efuntoye of Olabisi Onabanjo College, In the past-Iwoye on Wednesday suggested the Federal Authorities to galvanise the nation’s wealthy human sources to invent pressing options to meals, vitality, and different challenges confronting the nation now.
Nigeria is going through meals disaster with costs of main commodities skyrocketing within the final eight months.
Meals inflation additionally hit 32.4% in December 2023, an 8.71% leap from what was recorded within the earlier 12 months.
Efuntoye stated that this essential time calls for the nation undertake the China choice; shut her borders to the world, impress on residents to start to look inward, and use native content material to innovatively handle the mammoth wants.
Efuntoye stated this whereas delivering the 116th inaugural lecture of the Olabisi Onabanjo College, In the past Iwoye Ogun State, with the theme “The Triad of Toughness, Tenacity and Tameness within the Story of Antibiotic Resistance.”
The don has referred to as for the organising of a consortium of researchers drawn from the nation’s universities to begin significant collaborative analysis towards discovering options to the socio-economic, political, technological, meals, and well being points.
He stated, “At a time in China’s historical past, the nation closed its doorways to the world. Nigeria as a rustic has very wealthy sources of mental personnel within the sciences, engineering and expertise, training, liberal arts, and humanities amongst others to unravel our social, financial, cultural, academic, political, and technological wants.
“We have to shut up and have interaction in significant analysis throughout all disciplines that can affect our nationwide life primarily based on native contents”.
He additionally advocated that the nation’s non-conventional universities akin to Federal Universities of Agriculture, and Federal Universities of Expertise discover solutions to essential points going through the nation inside a selected timeframe.
In response to him, funds for such analysis mandates needs to be drawn from TETFund and needs to be devoid of presidency bureaucratic bottlenecks.
