{"id":20118,"date":"2026-01-13T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20118\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:57:09","slug":"ex-nuc-boss-seeks-africa-led-research-to-reduce-foreign-dependence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20118\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NUC boss seeks Africa-led research to reduce foreign dependence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A former executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, Peter Okebukola, has called on African leaders to establish and fund institutions that support Africa-led research.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okebukola made the call in an interview on Monday in Ota, Ogun.<\/p>\n<p>He said the initiative would reduce the African continent\u2019s heavy dependence on developed countries for research.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okebukola highlighted the need for African leaders to invest in areas such as history, medicine, agriculture, and environmental science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Africans produce knowledge and solutions to their own problems, it combats the perception that outside expertise is always needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, African leaders can help shape the global narrative by providing an authentic perspective on the continent\u2019s history and challenges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okebukola added that the ability of African leaders to implement such policies or programmes would help eliminate the internalised inferiority complex in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>(NAN)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 100%;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Artboard-14.png\" alt=\"Banner\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, Peter Okebukola, has called on African leaders to establish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,1140,12548,12549,1975,7525,12550,12551,12552],"class_list":{"0":"post-20118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-agriculture","10":"tag-ex-nuc-boss","11":"tag-former-executive-secretary-of-the-national-universities-commission","12":"tag-history","13":"tag-medicine","14":"tag-ogun","15":"tag-ota","16":"tag-peter-okebukola"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}