The Chancellor, Covenant University, Ogun State, Dr. David Oyedepo, has urged Nigerian universities to be responsive to the nation’s security challenges.
Oyedepo, who recently delivered a lecture titled, ‘Towards the way out for a nation under trial’ at the 9th convocation ceremony of the university, charged higher institutions to engage in relevant topical research that could help solve the security challenges in the country.
He said, “Universities must drive relevance by continuously addressing and proffering solutions to the challenges of the day like Boko Haram insurgency and all the associated challenges, through intense discourse, debates and solution-finding workshops.
“Universities do not just exist to teach and graduate students, but rather to provide a platform for rigorous intellectual discourse that aims at providing solutions to societal problems and to define values and inspire research.”
The Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Sarah O. Alade, said national transformation could not be achieved without economic transformation, which itself is dependent on the strategic role of higher education institutions in Nigeria and elsewhere.
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