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How Neglect Of Science Turned Nigeria Into Consumer Nation – Dr. Ogbonaya

Ogbonnaya OnuMinister of science and technology, Dr. Ogbonanaya Onu has observed that the neglect of science and technology by successive governments has turned Nigeria into a consumer nation rather than a producing and an industrialized country.
The minister who had a meeting today with the National Council on Science and Technology at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, insisted that science and technology are the key that can unlock the door of prosperity for any nation.
Saying that “no nation has ever become great without them,” Dr. Onu pledged to effectively deploy science and technology toqards addressing the huge developmental challenges facing the nation.
He enumerated the benefits of science and technology, including in the areas of fighting crime, building the necessary industrial and military complex that can satisfy the important and urgent needs of our defence and intelligence community, fight corruption, educate the people and create jobs for the young and old alike.
The minister said also that science and technology can help to create wealth, reduce poverty, increase the nation’s capacity to on build roads, generate power, build railways as well as marine and airport.
Onu said science and technology can also help “treat our sick in our own hospitals, manufacture locally the goods we need, provide the services that would promote tourism, improve our communication, strengthen our currency and above all secure a knowledge based, innovation driven economy that not only grows but is sustainable.”
According to him, some countries of the world that have no natural resources as much as Nigeria have deployed science and technology to become economic and technology giants. [myad]

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