
UNILAG VC, Professor Folasade Ogunsola and UNDP Resident Representative, Elsie Attafuah | Credit: unilag.
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has partnered with the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) to use creativity and ingenuities to solve contemporaneous problems.
Playing host to the Resident Representative of the UNDP in Nigeria, Elsie Attafuah, who paid a courtesy visit to the institution, the Vice Chancellor of UNILAG, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, expressed the readiness of the University to host the initiative of the UNDP Nigeria.
In her speech, Attafuah expressed readiness to explore collaborations and partnerships from UNILAG among other prestigious ivory towers in Nigeria to advance the course of all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which she said had been on a decline.
As Attafuah showed concern about the challenges of climate change, poor energy, and gender bias among others, she saw the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a saving grace and its destructive impacts on all spheres.
She observed that the development would require the involvement and concerted effort of the intellectual community epitomized by universities.
Attafuah identified digital skills as tools of the future and emphasized the need for all stakeholders, most importantly the academic community to design modalities to accommodate the out-of-school population in Nigeria in digital skills acquisition schemes.
They also discussed areas such as programme development, management and implementation, organizational and strategic management, partnership brokering, resource mobilization, external relations and diplomacy, applied research and policy analysis, good governance, youth, gender, and civil society issues.
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