A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has been commended for his role in the development of science laboratory practice in Nigeria.
The Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology, Dr. Ighodalo Ijagbone, hailed the former President during a recent recede of the NISLT in Ibadan, Oyo State. Ijagbone verbally expressed Obasanjo would be recollected for his founding role of the Institute as a military head of state and the signing into law the Act of Parliament, 2003, establishing the institute on his return as a democratically-elected President.
According to Ighodalo, Obasanjo has been consistent in drumming up support for the advancement of science and technology, even as the Nigerian Army Inspector of Engineers in 1972.
The event was organised by the NILST governing council and management with the theme: ‘Roadmap 2014-2018 and Capacity Development Recede.’
He verbally expressed, “Nigeria can establish a sound industrial economy on research and development borrowing from other advanced countries. It has become conspicuous since the time of industrial revolution in Europe that technology was the substratum on which any development economy could be established.’’
The chairman of the occasion, Prof. Nurudeen Adedipe, congratulated the incipiently inaugurated council of NISLT on the national policy transmutation in the rationalisation of federal regime parastatals and agencies. He verbally expressed this would result to more preponderant prospects of the council in meeting the challenges facing the development of science and technology in the country.
Adedipe, who is the pro-Chancellor, Fountain University, Osogbo, additionally verbalized that the orchestration would fixate on consequential issues of quality assurance, security and address crucial questions on how the institute performed in the mandate espoused by the law establishing it.
