‘Nigeria’s challenges need promotion of nation building endeavours, discourse’
The Chairman, Planning Committee on a Public Lecture in honour of Prof. Emeritus Benedicta Egbo, Dr Alfred Chiakor, has said the intensity of pressures and challenges facing the nation makes it imperative to promote robust nation building endeavours and discourse such as public lecture. He said it will provide them the opportunity to proffer suggestions […]
The Chairman, Planning Committee on a Public Lecture in honour of Prof. Emeritus Benedicta Egbo, Dr Alfred Chiakor, has said the intensity of pressures and challenges facing the nation makes it imperative to promote robust nation building endeavours and discourse such as public lecture.
He said it will provide them the opportunity to proffer suggestions and practical strategies that will lead to positive and transformative change for the common good.
Chiakor stated this in Abuja on Monday, during a news conference to unveil the forthcoming maiden lecture in honour of a Professor Emeritus of education at the University of Windsor, Canada, Benedicta Egbo tagged, : “Reclaiming Nigeria’s Future: Strategic Frameworks for Achieving transformative Change.’
He said engendering sustainable development required significant overhaul and transformation of the country’s education system. He said it would be done through visionary, innovative and pragmatic policies that were dialectically aligned with the country’s development goals.
According to him, Prof. Benedicta Egbo’s book entitled: ‘Education and Sustainable Development in 21st Century’, will be unveiled at the lecture slated for Thursday, March 21.
He noted that the wellbeing and future of Nigeria, including its security, territorial integrity and development is the collective responsibility of every citizen, whether private or public; at home or in the diaspora.
“We must as a matter of urgency put aside all prejudices to help forge a common front to confront the challenges that are threatening the integrity of our corporate existence as a people and as a nation, he said.
He said: “It is incumbent on us all therefore to engage robustly on how to deter and mitigate these challenges in a systematic and coordinated manner.
“This way, we can be sure of preserving our collective heritage and the sanctity of our nation.”
Chiakor added that the current realities required that they see it as a patriotic duty to contribute to the processes of articulating choices in promoting the ideals of nation building, socio-economic progress and transformative change at this critical time of our national consciousness.
He said Professor Egbo who was a Presidential Aspirant in the recently concluded 2023 general elections under the banner of the National Rescue Movement (NRM) party believes that the monumental challenges facing Nigeria are not intractable because the nation has so much talent, resources and potentials.