The Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, David Oyedepo, has advised the Federal Government to make concerted efforts to develop education modules to address current challenges in the country.
Oyedepo gave the advice in an interview with NAN on Wednesday in Ota, Ogun.
The Chancellor said it was time to reconstruct the intellectual armoury and take up intellectual arms that would turn educational institutions in Nigeria into solutions centres.
“What is the value of formal education and chains of degrees that proffer no solutions to numerous challenges confronting the country?
“Our universities should become like engineering workshops where we programme and deprogramme the intellectual system of young people for productive and value-adding life.
“It is time for the universities to be repositioned to provide intellectual solutions to issues of concern to government, commerce and industry,” he said.
Oyedepo emphasised the need to open up “solutions centres” that would command the public’s attention and industries in our various sectors.
The chancellor added that the nation must leverage on this to deal with issues like unemployment, insecurity and others, confronting the country from the intellectual armouries, which is, our education institutions.
Oyedepo urges FG to develop education modules to address challenges in Nigeria
