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Nigeria Needs Technology To Achieve Vision 2020 – Buhari

President Muhammmadu Buhari on Thursday said Nigeria must accord high priority to science and technology if it must take its rightful place among the leading … Continue reading Nigeria Needs Technology To Achieve Vision 2020 – Buhari


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President-Muhammadu-Buhari-Media-Chat-1President Muhammmadu Buhari on Thursday said Nigeria must accord high priority to science and technology if it must take its rightful place among the leading economies in the modern world.

The President was speaking at the first meeting of the National Research and Innovation Council (NIRC) for the year.

The President said Nigeria’s vision of becoming one of the twenty largest economies in the world by the year 2020 is only attainable when science, technology and innovation are fully integrated into the national socio-economic development process.

He assured the council headed by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, of his determination and commitment to ensure that as a nation, Nigeria will invest appropriately in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in order to guarantee competitiveness both continentally and globally.

According to the president the goal to secure our nation, grow our economy, create jobs and fight crime can best be achieved if Nigeria can embrace science and technology.

President Buhari hopes that research and innovation output should be measured by number of intellectual property such as patents granted and not only by the number of articles published in scholarly journals.

He also hopes that Nigeria will soon become a centre of discoveries, inventions and innovation in all fields of science and technology and that before long Nigeria should be in a position to produce Nobel laureates in the sciences.