After the recent inauguration of an Endowment Fund’s Board of Trustees for the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday declared that the task for NIPSS “is to determine how it will affect human history beginning with our nation.”
At a meeting held at the Presidential Villa, the need to reposition NIPSS, recalibrate its visibility and attract significant financial backing from the private sector and other non-public sector sources were emphasised. The consensus was that the time had come for the National Institute to take its place as a foremost institute along the lines of notable globally ranked think tanks.
The VP noted that “one of the critical things for us in NIPSS is to first of all realise that the most important part of our work in the coming years would be really thinking and developing ideas, not training. According to him, “our country is a nation of 200 million people, growing at six million a year and poverty is almost at 60%, even more, extreme poverty. In another few years we are going to become the third most populous country in the world. We have to devise a strategy to get out of that poverty. ‘’
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