Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed related Ministries, Departments, and Businesses (MDA) of the federal government to make sure that the outcomes of analysis in science and know-how are used to counterpoint insurance policies that affect the true sector.
The President gave the directive yesterday whereas receiving in viewers the President of the Nigerian Academy of Science and the fellows of the Academy on the State Home in Abuja.
President Tinubu emphasised that his administration is advancing an all-encompassing strategy to leveraging the capability of Nigerians to innovate and create options from all spheres of human initiative throughout the private and non-private sectors, together with farming, manufacturing, data know-how, and the academia.
“The pathway to unlocking the potential of our nationwide contribution to the worldwide economic system of tomorrow lies in what we do as we speak. I’m absolutely dedicated to the great integration of analysis, and the outcomes of analysis with the method of coverage formulation and implementation in all fields of nationwide endeavour,” President Tinubu instructed leaders of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS).
Throughout his investiture because the Grand Patron of Science by the Academy, the President mentioned the tempo of change world wide, mirrored in some nationwide and international challenges, requires extra reliance on analysis for options and actionable information, particularly in well being and training.
“The Minister of Training, the Coordinating Minister of Well being and Social Welfare, and the Minister of Finances and Financial Planning are right here. All of the related ministries ought to sit up and be sure that science analysis guides course of growth in related areas of benefit. We should not fail to make the most of analysis outcomes within the strategy of enriching our insurance policies,” President Tinubu mentioned.
The President acknowledged the historic feat of Professor Ekanem Braide in rising as the primary feminine President of the Nigerian Academy of Science since its institution in 1977.
Earlier in her remarks, Professor Braide, mentioned a nationwide analysis fund ought to be established because the nation strikes in the direction of a knowledge-driven economic system.
She mentioned: “Mr. President, we thanks to your help for a nationwide analysis fund and we imagine that this may go a good distance in resolving our challenges and certainly, we will make faster progress if we benefit from the inputs of all Nigerians from the enterprise group, the academia, and the general public sector”.
Itemizing a number of the interventions and achievements of the Academy in enhancing the lives of Nigerians, Braide additionally suggested that the nation’s 265 universities, 84 polytechnics, and 205 schools of training be upscaled in science analysis infrastructure and funding.
