Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, has urged the nation’s universities to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s agenda of building a prosperous economy for the betterment of Nigerians.
Tijani said that status of a university as a place of teaching and research confer
a special responsibility on them to convert academic excellence into economic value, and human capital into national productivity in support of Tinubu’s administration’s resolve to build a prosperous, trillion-dollar economy.
He noted that when universities function in that manner, the classrooms would become living laboratories, research addresses real constraints and knowledge, lifts the livelihoods of the citizens.
The minister who spoke yesterday while delivering the 35th Convocation Lecture of the Olabisi Onabanjo University(OOU), Ago – Iwoye, Ogun State, said that the growth of any country’s economy is a direct reflection of the relevance of its universities,
the quality of its graduates and the productivity of its workforce.
The lecture which he framed as his remarks for the occasion was titled, ‘A memo addressed to the university, to our graduates, to government, industry and alumni.’
