But on the other hand, we are not doing well at home because the enabling environment for excellence in academia is not there. How true is the claim that lecturers do not engage in quality research? Yes, our university lecturers do not engage enough in quality research as a result of the reasons I have mentioned earlier. Due to lack of research, Nigeria and Africa may remain developing with stunted economic growth and a dearth of quality human resources. S has 1.5 million researchers, China has 862,000 researchers, Japan has 675,000, and Russia has 487,000 researchers in their tertiary education systems.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2020 03:45 UTC