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By Olasunkanmi Onifade
Abuja, April 27, 2021 The Minister of State Science and Technology, Mohammed Abdullahi, has urged stakeholders in the construction industry to develop technologies that would address housing and infrastructural deficiencies using local available resources.
Abdullahi said this at the 10th Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBBRI) international conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
The conference had the theme: “Circular Economy in the Built Environment for Enhanced Performance of the Nigerian Construction Industry.”
He said the locally available resources should be able to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal’s target of providing affordable and decent housing for citizens.
Epileptic power supply and poor Internet systems have been identified as the cause of setback for e-learning in the post COVID-19 pandemic learning environment.
This was the verdict of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) at the late John Egbe’s fourth Memorial Lecture at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) with the theme: Re-Engineering A Sustainable And User Friendly E-Learning Approach Post-COVID-19 Era.
A former NSE Chairman in Lagos and Vice President, Council of Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Mrs. Margaret Oguntala, said government should do more to put in place adequate measures to achieve e-learning.
She said poor power supply system remained one of the problems of