The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology was last week renamed the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Rationalizing the
The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology was last week renamed the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Propelled by the worrisome state of insecurity in the country with its peculiar dimension in the south-eastern part of the country, I insisted on verifying and possibly documenting the identities of everyone I would closely deal with in the course of the visit. After spending two days in the quiet city of Enugu, I became acquainted with this young cab operator. He was to take me to the scheduled destinations and drop me off at my point of departure upon the conclusion of my assignment.
He had dreamt of becoming a leading innovator alongside his other peers. He was full of hopes. His family keyed into that aspiration. But quite sadly and unknown to him, his hopes were to be dashed. Quite instructively, it was not just because of his untimely death. The government killed his ambition before his eventual death. After his secondary education, he opted to wait for the “right time” to go for tertiary education.
Records showed that among others, “the objectives of the institution include, promoting the development of massive human resource capacity in the ICT sector of the economy; train personnel in ICT, innovation and related sectors; establish training and research facilities with modern infrastructure and technology”.
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