A lecturer with the ESUT Business School, Enugu, Prof. Fred Eze, has identified failure to practically apply research findings as part of the challenges militating against Nigeria’s development.
Eze, who is Director of ESUT Business School, lamented how research findings by scholars in various fields had been abandoned on the bookshelves, insisting that the country could not make progress without practical application of research findings.
He stated that countries that have advanced technologically followed application of research conducted by their scholars and urged the federal and state governments to encourage as well as support research efforts.
Stressing the need for governments to encourage grants for research, especially on specific areas that could improve the wellbeing of the people, he stated that approval of such grants by international agencies would limit the recipient to their own areas.
Bishop Matthew Kukah
The Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has said Nok University will create a new civilisation of love through education, giving birth to new Nigerian elites committed to building a great country, far from the shattered destruction of bigotry and hate that has engulfed the nation.
He said this while inaugurating the Board of Trustees and Governing Council of the institution, which located in Kachia Local Government, Kaduna State.
Kukah, who is the Chairman of the board, while inaugurating the board on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the institution would be the labour room for the birth of generations.
· Want pro-chancellor to recuse self from selection process
Gboyega Akinsanmi
Senior academics at the Lagos State University (LASU) have faulted the process newly initiated to select the next Vice-Chancellor of the institution, citing diverse antics by some powerful individuals that have hijacked the entire process.
The academics under the aegis of Concerned Senior Academics of LASU asked the Governor and Visitor of the institution, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to reconstitute the Joint Council and Senate Selection Committee in line with the LASU Law, 2004.
They expressed these concerns in a two-page letter by Prof. Oladimeji Kolawole, Prof. Olalekan Jaiyeoba and Prof. Adeleke Yusuff, picking holes in the fresh process the governor directed the Governing Council to initiate penultimate week.
Farmers/Herders clash: SDP advises state govts to pass anti-grazing bill
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The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has advised State governments to pass the Anti-Grazing Bill into Law to eliminate the constant farmers/herders conflicts across Nigeria.
SDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Alfa Mohammed, gave the advice in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
Mohammed also urged the state governors to set up Ministries of Internal Security and Conflict Resolution to deal with the activities of aliens in states.
He said, “It is high time they [governors] start taking bold steps toward securing the lives of their citizens who are being kidnapped, raped, maimed or killed on a daily basis by marauding Fulani herdsmen who are mostly foreigners.
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The National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC) on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nigerian Defence Academy to enhance educational training at the NDA.
The NMDC said the signing of the MoU is to complement NDA’s efforts in training officer cadets in engineering, physical sciences, among others.
Prof. Linus Asuquo, Director General/Chief Executive NMDC disclosed this during the event in Jos, the Plateau State Capital.
Asuquo said the NMDC was fully equipped to support the training of officers.
“As you must have seen during the facility tour, NMDC is well equipped to compliment your efforts in the educational training of your officer cadets in engineering and physical sciences, especially in Metallurgy, Minerals Technology, Analytical Services and Environmental Studies among others.