Nigeria: Onu - Still Searching for Landmark Breakthrough

Most Nigerians would have really wished that the country's scientific and technological breakthroughs move from theories to practical inventions. As a first class Chemical Engineering graduate and with a PhD in the same field, when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ogbonnanya Onu as Minister of Science and Technology, many did not consider it as a mistake.

Since his assumption of office, he has tried to lay emphasis on the patronage of indigenous goods and services especially as the ministry was considered one of the 13 ministries critical to the actualisation of the federal government's programmes on sustainable growth of the Nigerian economy.

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