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NAN reports that Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, senior special adviser on industrialisation to the president of the AfDB, said this while delivering the Founder’s Day Lecture of the Igbinedion University, on Monday in Edo state.
He said the country cannot progress and respond favourably to the emerging challenges of the 21st century unless it hastily industrialises its economy from the current overdependence on exportation of crude oil.
“In pursuit of long-term recovery and sustainable development, Nigeria needs urgent economic diversification,” Oyelaran-Oyeyinka said.
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“Nothing is more poignantly demonstrative of the danger of over-reliance on a single or narrow range of commodities than the recent crash in oil price we saw in 2020 due to the COVID-19.
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By Dakuku Peterside
LAST week, at a lecture, to commemorate my 50th birthday and the public presentation of my book entitled: Strategic Turnaround: the story of a government agency, the Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, raised the bar of discourse on a number of national issues. As would be expected the news media made a feast of the position of the cerebral but frank professor turned governor.
Speaking on the topic: “Security and Economic Growth: Leadership in Challenging Times”, the Borno governor aligned himself with the calls by a growing list of political elite insisting that power should shift to the South at the end of the Buhari presidency. In his words: “Power rotation is a covenant between us, hence, the need to shift the power to South.”
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Our Honouree, Prof Seth Accra- Jaja, our brand new Vice Chancellor, Prof Charles Teddy Adias, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to be invited to be part of a great tradition of the University system globally which this university is now following and particularly to deliver the Honour’s day lecture in honour of my former teacher and my academic mentor, Prof Accra- Jaja.
Let me seize this rare opportunity to congratulate one of Africa’s best known Management thought leaders for sterling accomplishments and laying the critical foundation for this university to flourish. The past five years from what I have read and heard has been remarkable. Congratulations sir.
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Professor Val Gibson, the University’s Equality Champion focusing on STEMM subjects, said: “International Women’s Day is an opportunity to reflect and celebrate the many contributions of women to the University’s education and research, including to our collaborations across the world. It is particularly poignant at a time when family, friends and colleagues may be separated and our interactions occur via a virtual setting. It is from this space that I send a huge thank you to all who actively contribute to gender equality, and diversity and inclusion, and the women who make Cambridge such a wonderful place to work.