Fashola charges Vice Chancellors on use of data for national development
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN has charged the vice chancellors in Nigerian universities to use the data in their confines to guide government, the business community and the citizenry on national development.
Director Press and Public Relations, in the ministry, Boade Akinola, in a statement, noted that Fashola gave the charge while granting audience to the Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
The Minister said, “The world is chasing data, collating data, this data is sitting in our universities, almost every lecturer ask students to write one research paper or the other. We can use this data in a useful form, to inform our government, to inform businessmen, to inform the society.”
In response to the call for his support by the Vice Chancellors, Fashola said, “In terms of collaborative relationship on infrastructure, you can take my cooperation for granted”.