Nigeria's Economic Solution Lies in Science and Tech - Onu

17 April 2017

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has asserted that the country's economic and development problems can only be properly fixed if Nigeria, as a nation, pays adequate attention to science and technology.

He wondered how the country can possibly compete with other countries that spend about four per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on research and innovation when it (Nigeria) only spends a paltry 0.22 per cent of its GDP on same and other scientific innovations.

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