ABUJA – Prof. Julius Okogie, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), on Thursday, said Nigerian universities were not ranked high because their research findings were not published on the Internet.
Okogie made the disclosure when a team from the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASDRA) paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja.
According to him, Nigerian universities are at par with universities around the world in terms of academics and research but their findings are not made available online.
He said “the people that do these rankings do not visit university campuses; they get their data on the Internet; but most of our research findings are not there.
“What makes you a professor is that people have read your work somewhere else.
“We have to use Information Communication Technology (ICT) to enhance our learning; our children have all the ICT they need, but they are not using it to enhance themselves.”
The NUC boss said that for Nigeria to achieve vision 20:20:20, there must be advancement in ICT.
Earlier, the leader of the team and Director-General of NASDRA, Prof. Seidu Mohammed, said the team was at NUC to seek collaboration in areas of research. [eap_ad_1] He said that the agency had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with some universities but came to formalise it with NUC as the regulatory body.
According to him, the agency has the mandate to design and build satellite using indigenous scientists as the first space agency in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Seidu urged universities to tap into the data from the launched satellites (NigeriaSat1, NigeriaSat2 and NigeriaSatX) for research and development.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no Nigerian university appeared in the recent global top universities ranking. (NAN)
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