Resource creation and effective management with emphasis on Employment and People Oriented Policy; Alternative Foods Production and Process Techniques; and New method of Water Management as been identified as solutions to National Development.
Other areas identified as solutions include: Resistance Drift and Shift of Sustainable Industries; Conscious and Resistance in City Town Management; Conscious and Resistance of Pest Management; Resource Creativity of Wind Power and Energy Generation; Paper Recycling Revolution; and Metal Recycling and Possible Resistance.
These were the submission of Professor Sunday Oyewole Otokiti last Friday in his paper titled, “Resource Creation and Resistances: A Continuing Process for National Development” delivered at the Covenant University’s 26th Public Lecture.
Professor Otokiti also charged the academia and the national leaders to come out with new discoveries in the area of resource degradation to eliminate resource destruction and develop new ways of production that will minimize cost in different production processes.
The renown professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship also asked the dons in the nation’s Ivory Towers to look at new ways of doing business and creating employment; and develop new modes of transportation and traffic congestion management saying, “It is time for us to begin to dig deep into things around us and see how we can positively affect the society for the better.”
Professor Otokiti who is also the first professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship in Nigeria and the Head of Department of Business Studies at Covenant University enjoined individual s to be a resource creating factor charging that, “We have no reason to be anything less than creative and if necessary restrictive as individuals, organizations or nations.
He said, “As a citadel of learning what do we have to offer and how well can we affect our nation, continent and the world. First is the need to pause for breath and reappraise our future plans. We must be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue and dominate, at least, our immediate environment, Nigeria and indeed the large environment, the world.”
In his remark, the Chancellor of Covenant University, Dr. David Oyedepo expressed worry over lack of solutions to economic down turn facing the nation and the world at large saying that it is time to take intellectual arms to rid the nation out of the looming holocaust.
He also stressed the need for collaborative efforts to be a producing nation and not a consumer adding that only producers are leaders.
According ton him, “Today’s lecture is a food for thought and a food for action. We must settle down together and work to solve our problem. We have to join hands now to rid this nation out of the coming holocaust.” He advised.
In the same vain, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Aize Obayan stated that the lecturer had successfully established nuggets to be creative and break away from the trap of tradition which according to her is the bane of progress. He as also shown us that it’s a world of possibilities and calling us to be co-creator with God” she added.
The Public Lecture was graced by academics from universities and research institutes, captains of industries, government officials, labor leaders and students.