{"id":20881,"date":"2024-03-07T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/it-may-be-difficult-for-nigeria-to-progress-without-strong-institutions-us-don\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:03:05","slug":"it-may-be-difficult-for-nigeria-to-progress-without-strong-institutions-us-don","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/it-may-be-difficult-for-nigeria-to-progress-without-strong-institutions-us-don\/","title":{"rendered":"It may be difficult for Nigeria to progress without strong institutions \u2013 US don"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A professor at Medgar Evers College\/City University of New York, Augustine Okereke, has warned that it may be difficult for the country to progress without strong institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Okereke, who spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital on Thursday, said that lack of strong (social) institutions in Nigeria is impeding sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>The don then appealed to President Bola Tinubu to encourage a system of strong institutions that can check corruption, among other social problems in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The don spoke while presenting a lead paper at the maiden annual Ibadan social science conference held at the University of Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>The don, while addressing the gathering, added that \u201call our institutions are on the decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that without effective structures put in place, it will be difficult for Nigeria to achieve sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAfrican countries in particular face very huge challenges in meeting sustainability in every sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout these structures, African nations will continue to fail into poverty, underemployment and injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Professor Ezebunwa Nwokocha, stated that the University of Ibadan Social Science has deep intellectual, context-specific solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Nwokocha, said that social science and humanities researchers have what it takes to assist the leadership of the country in navigating the problems confronting the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOur faculty is reputed for offering deeply intellectual, workable, and context-specific solutions to the challenges faced by Nigeria over the ages. Mr Chairman, we produced professors Ojetunji Aboyade, Akin Mabogunje, Peter P. Eke, Onigu Otite, and Dennis Ugwuegbu, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir offspring are here and insisting through groundbreaking research that intellectual leadership is non-negotiable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It may be difficult for Nigeria to progress without strong institutions \u2013 US don<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at Medgar Evers College\/City University of New York, Augustine Okereke, has warned that it may be difficult for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11906,15,901],"tags":[9876,180,18,11907],"class_list":["post-20881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-augustine-okereke","category-news","category-nigeria","tag-augustine","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-okereke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}