…says Tinubu to reset national agenda
By Udesinanna Stephen
Vice President Kashim Shettima has expressed dissatisfaction over farmers-herders clash in Nigeria, saying that when others are talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) of bio-technology of internet things, Nigeria still dwell on farmer-herders clash.
He said this lately in a meeting with the management team from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), led by the Director General, Prof. Ayo Omotayo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
As gathered from the VP’s X handle @officialSKSM, he said, “We missed the agricultural age; Africa missed the industrial age. We are now in the knowledge-driven age. When others are talking about artificial intelligence, of bio-technology, of internet things, we are busy dwelling on farmer-herders clash and things that we ought to have overcome decades ago.”
He said, “We really need to recalibrate the system and see to it that all the beautiful policy recommendations by NIPSS are brought into reality, because the world is changing and the world is gradually becoming knowledge-driven.”
Shettima said, “NIPSS is a policy think-tank for the government just as we have its equivalent in other parts of the world such as the Global Policy Institute, the Chatham House, the Adam Smith Institute, the Royal United Institute for Defence Studies in Russia, and the Hopkins Institute in the United States of America.”
He also promised to consider the recommended policies from NIPSS.