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The Vice-Chancellor of the Bowen University, Iwo, Professor Joshua Ogunwole, has tasked Nigerian universities on the need to engage their students intellectually.
He said this on Monday in his welcome address at the mock conference organised by the university.
Professor Ogunwole said there is need for the country to return to the era of getting undergraduates engage in intellectual debates to prepare them for leadership positions.
Ogunwole noted that some Nigerians in leadership positions were products such engagements, adding that graduates might have very limited solutions to offer towards solving the challenges facing the country if they were not engaged in such ways.
He said, “Productive intellectual ventures are necessary to help students individually as it would also go a long way to help humanity as well.”
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“We started this kind of lecture at Bowen to make sure that our students are well grounded and can contribute to any debate. It is okay to have a good grade, but university students should not just be limited in knowledge their courses alone.
“The future of the country will be brighter if the youth are intellectually engaged in fashioning out solutions to the problems confronting us. They will become useful at home and abroad.”
On his part, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Prof. Femi Mimiko, called for urgent restructured of Nigeria to prevent another Somalia.
Professor Mimiko’s paper was on restructuring.
“When the 2014 confab was concluded and the report was submitted, President Muhammadu Buhari’ government said it wouldn’t touch it and I recall that I wrote an article asking that the government should set up its own committee to examine the challenges and contradictions and let their own committee recommend the way out,” Mimiko stressed.