Today, our universities are locked in an endless struggle for attention. We have since reduced all theoretical physicists that Nigeria produced in the 70s to teachers of physics as an alternative to practicals. All research centres of old are underfunded and almost nearly completely abandoned. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), once a strong complement to the University of Ibadan, is downsizing its operations in Nigeria. The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, the National Cereals Research Institute, FIIRO, the Raw Materials Research and Development Council and the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research have all been reduced to mere bureaucracies, whose major activity is the salaries of their under-worked staff that they still manage to pay at the end of every month. There is even no functional Museum in the country anymore and all the zoos that used to provide opportunities for tourism and research are empty, the animals therein having been stolen, sold, eaten or starved to death.
You did not remember the Greatest Research Institute of all In Vom, Plateau State..National Veterinary Research Institute(the foremost Veterinary Research Institute in Africa)...all a shadow of it's old self.
Hmm..gad dem....you're talking of Museum and Zoos...all the the endangered species have since been relocated to u know where
The problem with Nigeria has never been one of talent. A Nigerian invented the wooden xylophone, and the talking drum, and now a two-way ear-phone, and the cure for diabetes. We are a nation of very smart people who can thrive under any circumstances. But as a nation we are bad managers. In an increasingly competitive world, the best way for Nigeria to rebrand itself is to put its best hands to work, to provide an enabling environment for the flowering of talent and genius, and to make it possible for every man or woman who is willing to dare, to do so.
With the Best Talents...we need Selfless Managers, not just Managers. And of course an Enabling environment for all.More Power to....Louis Obyo Obyo Nelson and Sanya Ojikutu, and other unseen/unknown Inventors.
There is something in our character which compels us to seek to discourage the few among us who excel. We are constantly pushing and pulling at each other, energy that should be used constructively is devoted to needless politics over anything and everything. When one man called Dr Abalaka claimed a few years ago that he had found a cure for HIV/AIDS, we shouted him down, we didn't as much as give him a chance to submit his claim to scientific verification. Who is he? Who does he think he is? What does he know? These are standard Nigerian responses. But by recording their breakthroughs abroad, or with foreign support, Louis Nelson and Sanya Ojikutu do not need us. But we, the rest of the people, need them to remind the world that good things also come out of Nigeria.
Yep a lot of good things have come out of Nigeria...and even much more reside outside the Country becos the environment back home is suffocating.
The best of the best in the World are from Nigeria but in away Countries.
One fellow lost about N300, 000 withdrawn from his account over a period, and all that the bank could tell him was that if he didn't withdraw the money himself, no one else could have! The banks may boast about how they have invested in technology in the last few years, the flashy cars that their managers ride, the new face of their banking halls, the absurd profits that they announce every year despite their reduced intermediation capacity and function, but they are investing little in human relations both internally and externally. This is a major CSR failing that should interest the regulator.
The Apex Bank..CBN needs to wake up...and most of the technology deplored by the banks shld be inspected and certified....it's absurd that they are not taking Customer's Distress seriously...there shld be an Independent Ombudsman....some independent body to report to..lawd have mercy
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