Eminent Nigerians, academics seek education reforms to tackle national challenges

…Celebrate NSUK Ex-VC, Mainoma’s Legacy

By John Alechenu, Abuja

Eminent Nigerians, academics, and policymakers person called for urgent reforms successful the nation’s acquisition assemblage to marque it much functional, proactive, and susceptible of addressing contiguous challenges portion preparing for the future.

The telephone was made astatine a colloquium successful Abuja connected Thursday to people the 60th day of Professor Muhammad Akaro Mainoma, erstwhile Vice Chancellor of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK). The lawsuit besides served arsenic a level for intelligence reflection connected Nigeria’s improvement trajectory and arsenic a solemnisation of Mainoma’s world and enactment legacy.

Delivering the keynote address, erstwhile Director-General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Dr. Umar Bindir, lamented Nigeria’s inability to harness its intelligence and quality resources for nationalist growth.

“Our leaders person ever launched visions — from the Green Revolution to Vision 2010 and Vision 2020 — but the existent question remains: wherefore person we not addressed the cardinal issues?” Bindir queried.

He urged Nigeria to emulate countries specified arsenic Malaysia and South Korea, which transformed their economies done accordant concern successful education, research, and concern policies. He further stressed the request for stronger collaboration betwixt universities, government, and manufacture to span what helium described arsenic “the vale of death” successful the country’s industrialisation process.

Former Nasarawa State Governor, Senator Tanko Al-Makura, praised the celebrant arsenic “a patriot, mentor, and nation-builder whose bequest extends beyond Nasarawa State to Nigeria and beyond.”

In her tribute, the Vice Chancellor of NSUK, Professor Sa’adatu Liman, highlighted Mainoma’s achievements, noting that the instauration expanded from 50 to implicit 300 postgraduate programmes nether his leadership.

The lawsuit besides featured the unveiling of 4 books successful honour of Mainoma, including Mentoring Academics successful Nigeria: Mentor’s Approach, Mainoma’s Leadership: Achievements successful Nasarawa State University, his autobiography My History, and Diamond Memories of a Secretary General.

Professor Uche Uwaleke, Nigeria’s archetypal Professor of Capital Market Studies and a adjacent subordinate of Mainoma, described him arsenic a visionary person and prolific researcher successful accountancy who has mentored galore professors and PhD holders crossed the country.

Responding, Prof. Mainoma expressed gratitude to God, his family, colleagues, and friends for their enactment passim his journey. “I privation to beryllium remembered arsenic idiosyncratic who devoted his beingness to knowledge, service, and mentoring the adjacent generation,” helium said.

Chairman of the Organising Committee, Dr. Usman Gur Mohammed, described Mainoma arsenic a patriotic and progressive Nigerian, recalling his enactment relation arsenic a pupil activistic astatine Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, wherever helium championed students’ rights.

The lawsuit ended with prayers for Prof. Mainoma’s continued health, wisdom, and work to Nigeria.

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