“I would suggest that the academy should encourage most of the companies coming to Nigeria to train technicians and artisans.” Nigeria Obasanjo
He argued that since it was right to say that ‘without engineers, there can’t be development’, there should be more collaboration, particularly between the government, industries and the profession to engender growth and infrastructure development of the country.
The gap, he stressed, should be bridged through better financial support for the professionals to develop scientific innovations needed by the people.“If we are going to make progress, the training of engineers must be right. The industries must have their own input on training; financing of engineers and facilities as the training of engineers must be adequate.
Obasanjo, himself an engineer examined the contributions of Obafemi Olopade, who was inducted into the academy at the forum, maintained that indigenous engineers should emulate his mindset towards engineering to move to the profession to next level.
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