Adekunle Theophilus at WhichWayNigeria is incensed with the disdain shown to creative,innovative and inventive types:
A country that showers national honours and millions of naira on footballers and thieves, while allocating pittance for research grants and allowing people like Tanko Zubairu, Ifeanyi Eze, Dele Awojobi, Ezekiel Izeogu etc to waste will always be under the eternal shackles of underdevelopment. The world feels we are a vainglorious and pedestrian nation. The OAU team of Drs Ajayi, Balogun and Akintomide who were working on curative treatment for hypertension and heart failure did not get adequate research grants and had to struggle through their work. Only God knows the state of their work now!. The most unfortunate aspect is that there are hundreds of Tanko Zubairus, Ifeanyi ezes all over Nigeria who are wasting, lost to other countries or are dead due to this lackadaisical attitude towards supporting local science and technology development and Nigeria is worse off for it. We call ourselves giants of Africa and we don’t even have any policy to assist, harness and promote such potential inventors and inventions for national development. No wonder, Nigeria is called a graveyard of talents!...[continue reading]
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