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Obsolete Curriculum Causing Low Quality Of Engineering Products – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has identified the absence of up to date curriculum as the major cause of the low quality of engineering products in Nigeria. … Continue reading Obsolete Curriculum Causing Low Quality Of Engineering Products – Buhari


Muhammadu Buhari, National Assembly, Nigeria, Recession

Muhammadu Buhari on Nigeria's engineering productsPresident Muhammadu Buhari has identified the absence of up to date curriculum as the major cause of the low quality of engineering products in Nigeria.

The President made the observation on Tuesday while speaking at an occasion organised by professional engineers in Nigeria held in Akure, the capital of Ondo State.

‘A Wide Gap’

Represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, President Buhari revealed that the obsolete curriculum had created a wide gap between engineers trained in Nigeria and those trained abroad.

He implored professional engineers in Nigeria to work together with the various relevant stakeholders towards ‎improving the practice of engineering in Nigeria.

He also called for the rebuilding of the engineering curriculum to meet current global demands.

On his part, the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, emphasised the negative trend in which most of the capital investments in Nigeria come from financial products while actual industry products have declined.

He insisted that it was the political economy of an era that drives development, noting that there is the need to pay attention to the development of local industries.

In an interview with Channels Television, the Minister of Water Resources, Engineer Suleiman Adamu and a professor in the field of engineering who was onetime Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Professor Faborode gave some solutions to the challenges confronting the development of engineering education and practice in Nigeria‎.

The theme of the ‎conference is “Embracing the future: improving the quality of Engineering education and practice in Nigeria”.