British American University rewards Nigerian entrepreneurs, human and resources managers

Idris Isah

It was laudable, as British American Open University of California, rewarded best Nigerian patriots and performing leaders with honorary awards.

The honorary doctorate and professorial awards were rolled out to the awardees among Nigerian dignitaries during the induction at the National Merit House yesterday at Abuja.

About forty two professionals, entrepreneurs, academia and patriots in the private and public sectors were inducted into the Hall of Fame and decorated with awards insignia as presided over by the Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the instruction, Prof. Paul Godwin Udofia.

In a lecture titled, ‘The Hidden and Latent Keys To Nigerian Emergence As one of G-21 Nations Under President Bola Ahmed Tunubu’, the key speaker, Prof. Paul Godwin Udofia challenged inventors and investors from among the youth and academia to rise up from the ashes of the nation’s woos, to re-invent Nigerian to catch up with other developed and actively developing nations of the world.

According to Prof. Udofia, the destiny of Nigeria does not lie in the nation’s mineral resources, crude oil, in monthly sharing of cash allocations to States and Local Government Areas, in taxation or in our agricultural endowments but in Inventors and massive Investments in Nigerian men and women, if it must escape it’s debt trap.

Udofia said, “The whole universe is ruled by laws, extant laws. Nigerian has violated the extant laws and the punishment is heavy indebtedness. Anytime you see a country heavily indebted, that country has violated the extant laws of the universe, any time you see a city, a family heavily indebted, that city, that family has violated the extant laws of the universe”.

“There is nothing to celebrate, no cause for celebration in Nigeria, until the day we start creating generation of Inventors, Investors, growing numbers of Entrepreneurs, Academia with skills. The day we start raising Inventors, investors in different states and local governments in Nigeria to re – create new products and made – in – Nigeria goods, that will boost our Gross Domestic Products (GDP) from a meargerly $199bn, less than that of California state, Sweden to a higher height, then we can be out our woos and celebrate “.

Prof. Udofia assured the audience of partnering with the British American Open University, Kings College British American Institute and investors, to form a Forum of Inventors, Investors, Academia and a sum of N 5 m award for any new inventor, whether educated or not, every six month, for purpose of discovery and promotion of new products in Nigeria.

“This is about the Soul of Nigeria, it’s about the Soul of our fatherland, the Soul of all of us, the Soul of our children. If we failed to do this, morners will go out enmass on our streets and part of the corners will be you, me and our children and those yet unborn”.

In an interview with Dr. Ortis Orji, the Country’s Director of British American Open University in California, he expressed optimism at the level of success of the effulgence and annual lecture, which raises Nigerian’s consciousness of what we have being lacking, and so, it’s a claring call to harnesh the abundant resources Nigeria is blessed with.

“We will come out with an organisation to organize competition like ‘talent hunt’ every year, so they can come out with what they can do realistically. There is no way we cannot market new products like supply of Power from Suck away one professor has come up with. It is for us to ensure it is real, then register the Patent Right, then push it out to our nation and to the world”

Dr. Orji challenged our ingenious professors, doctors, and Nigerian youth not to wait for government to do everything for them, but to go out and seek for investors to put in their money, as there is no one who is not interested in making more money.

While expressing optimism that Nigerians, especially youth, are highly blessed with creativity they deploys in negative ventures like Scam, 419, kidnapping, they can be be mentored to re – direct those creativity to positive discoveries and inventions that could better their life of destitution and safe Nigeria from our current endemic poverty, religious, ethnic crisis and insecurity across the nation.

The induction witnessed critical contributions from eminent personalities including, Dr. Ameh Joseph Friday, the Administrator of Kings College British American Business School; University Vice Chancellor, Prof. David Brue Day and other high profile personalities among the inductees.