The Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University in Anambra State has promised to join forces with the state government in its quest to digitise the socio-economic activities in the state, including its education and administrative systems.
The institution expressed its desire to ensure that it produces the next generation of young scientists and innovators that would, expectedly, emerge from the state, thus making the state the “Silicon Valley of Africa,” a statement by the institution said on Friday evening.
The statement noted that the Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. Greg Nwakoby, made the commitment at the fifth International Conference and Exhibition for Science, Technology, Innovations and Entrepreneurship organised by the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the university held in the school campus.
The theme for the conference and exhibitions which was ‘Breaking Barriers to Innovation, Local Manufacturing and Technology Development in Nigeria,’…