Tinubu Challenges Varsities to Tackle Insecurity, Climate Change

•UNN honours First Lady, others

Arinze Gideon in Enugu

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has challenged Nigerian universities to move beyond classroom teaching and become the nation’s foremost source of practical solutions to insecurity, food insecurity, climate change, technological lag and other pressing national challenges.

The president issued the charge yesterday at the 55th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), where the institution conferred honorary doctorates on Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and other distinguished Nigerians for their outstanding contributions to national development and humanity.

Represented by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Edoba B. Omoregie, the president said universities must produce research that addresses the country’s developmental needs rather than allowing valuable academic findings to remain unused.