Few years to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, the Director, African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, ACEGID, Prof. Christian Happi, said Nigeria and the African continent have failed to prioritise investment in research and development, R&D, warning that, the country will not meet the SDGs.
The professor of molecular biology and genomics in the Department of Biological Sciences at Redeemer’s University, who identified lack of prioritisation as a major challenge declared that Nigeria and other African countries have failed the continent.
“It is obvious we have failed in terms of meeting the 17 goals, and we have not made it because, as a country and as a continent, we have failed to invest in research and development. He stated that Africa should think about how to make resources available and stop waiting for foreign aids to do it. As long as we keep doing this as a country and as a continent, we may not make progress. I think we should sit down and rethink,” he argued.
He recalled that the Abuja declaration over 20 years ago required the government to invest 2 percent of the GDP in R&D, but it never happened apart from Rwanda, which is investing about 1 percent.
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