Africans have been urged to use their talents to solve the mirage of problems in the country.
The Executive Vice and Chief Executive of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Prof Mohammad Sani Haruna made this known while delivering a commencement lecture for postgraduates in multidisciplinary sectors at the 9th Convocation of the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja.
He urged academics to use their talent and know-how to solve African problems, adding that many African nations need help to overcome their socioeconomic challenges.
He said: “I understand that the graduands are from Cameroon, South Sudan, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Cote D’ Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria.
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“These eight countries like many other African nations need your talent, your ideas, your solution, your innovative thinking, and your solution to hunger, starvation, poverty, diseases, self-inflicted wars, poor and deteriorating infrastructure, drug addiction, joblessness, security challenges, and import oriented economy, amongst others.”
He said education is no longer about theories but about using skills to address problems.
He said, “It is how much of your talent, know-how and training that you can figure out and deploy to attend to these African problems. That is your value addition and not your degrees. It is your attitudes and not aptitude that will matter.
