FG Advocates STI As Key To Sustainable Security, Economic Development

The Federal government of Nigeria has described Science Technology and Innovation policy initiatives and employment of modern strategic frameworks as key to overcoming major implementation difficulties in government policies.  

The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Sen. Adeleke Mamora, gave the description in a lecture he delivered at the National Defence College, in Abuja, tagged Nigeria’s Policy on Science, Technology and Innovation Strategic Imperatives for Technological Resilience .

He stated that the lecture is focused on the understanding of building blocks for sustainable security and socio-economic development of Nigeria by leveraging the enormous power of STI.

According to the Minister, the STI 2022 policy is aimed at making Nigeria one of the top scientific powers in the world with a mission of harnessing, developing and utilizing STI, to build a large and comprehensive economy that will guarantee high standard of living for her citizens.

He also noted that the Presidential proclamation to support the development of STI and activate the annual expenditure of a minimum 0.5% of GDP in the country is to achieve the National Research and Innovation fund to drive the implementation of the policy across the STI ecosystem.

He reiterated the approval of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2022 made by President Muhammadu Buhari as national guide for the Ministry and a platform for collaborations among ministries, departments, agencies, states and local governments as well as organized private sector.

The Minister further emphasized that the way forward is to imbibe the culture of result-based management logical frameworks implementation programmes, projects and activities of STI and R&D to minimize over dependency on imported product and promoting home-grown innovation.