The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, CVCNU, has stated that Nigerian scholars `particularly from the mental neighborhood’ were not nominated for the 2023 Nobel Prize due to poor analysis funding.
The Secretary-General of the committee, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu was reacting to the current announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize winners.
He spoke at a information convention to herald the commemoration of sixtieth anniversary of the committee in Abuja on Friday.
Mr Ochefu defined that for Nigerians to characteristic within the Nobel prize nominations, there have to be main breakthrough in cutting-edge analysis.
“This comes back to the work that the CVCNU has been doing over the years which is to improve the funding of university system.
“To win a Nobel prize is a product of sustained and rigorous research in the academic discipline, it is not one-off things.
“It looks surprised that the average age for a Nobel prize winner is from 50 years, it means that the person would have been doing research for at least 10 years to make a major breakthrough in his area of specialisation.
“We do not have enough funding for research in this country, there is a correlation between the quantum of resources available for research and the development of every country.
“And the benchmark is at least one per cent of your Gross Domestic Product (GDP) should be set aside for research and innovation, we are not even doing 0.1 per cent,” he stated.
Mr Ochefu additionally added that absence of amenities to do the cutting-edge analysis over a sustained time period to compete with researchers from different elements of the world was a serious problem.
The Nobel Prize is a world prize awarded yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine , Literature and Peace.
Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 people since inception.
Norwegian creator Jon Fosse is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “revolutionary performs and prose which give voice to the unsayable.
Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian, grew to become the primary African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.
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