By Raphael Ekpang
The Director General of the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Dr Olushola Odunsanya has said that Nigeria stands a better chance of generating more income if Blue Economy is giving the righttention.
Odunsanya made this known on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing journalists in a conference with the theme unlocking the potential of market -ready technology solutions for the blue economy in Nigeria.
He said, Nigeria has enormous potential to make money if Blue Economy is exploited, adding that it’s part of the reason the conference is organised so that the various stakeholders will know their roles in making the country grow through blue economy.
According to him, “Phillipines make 70billion dollars per anum from Mariners whom you find in ships. Hardly do you see a vessel that does not have low or middle worker from Phillipines. So Nigeria can so better, because we are many I’m ships business.”
Dr. Odunsanya while presenting a paper called for teamwork and high productivity among the employees while advocating a proper leadership recr
uitment process in organisations.
Odunsanya, in his presentation titled Strategic Approach to Mvastering Office Dynamics at the Career Progression Conference with the theme “Decoding Office Dynamics,” also disclosed that the education being offered in Nigeria does not prepare students for solving societal needs and challenges.
The DG, however, recommended that for optimal performance in an organisation, there is a need for a clear vision and communication of goals to the employees.
In the same vein, the Secretary General of Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI,) Professor Theophilus Ndubuaku said that the conference was coming at the right time, adding that Nigeria is a country that has enough water ways that can be used for irrigation but noted that we are not exploiting it.
According to him, “Nigeria stand a brighter chance of benefiting enormously in blue economy because, it is as if God has blessed us with everything we need to feed the whole world and not only Nigerians.With blue economy we can do anything, but all this while it has been oil, oil, oil and oil.
“This is the right step at the right direction and I am very confident that DG Odusanya will drive the process well considering the caliber of persons he has assembled today (Wednesday).
“I also want to thank President Bola Tinubu for creating a ministry making blue economy something worth concentrating on. A lot of persons doesn’t know what blue economy is all about until Tinubu came and now it’s the center of attraction,” he said.
