The Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), Thursday, commenced its annual raw materials quiz competition for secondary schools in Nigeria.
The competition is part of the Council’s CATCH-THEM-YOUNG programme in Nigeria.
While declaring the event open, the Director General RMRDC Professor Hussain Doko Ibrahim said the initiative will instill in youths the desire to embrace science, technology and innovation (STI).
The Director General said the “earlier we start utilizing what we have on ground as a nation, the better the economy will become. There’s so much wealth the nation is endowed with and it’s our hope that our young people will imbibe STI and add value to the nation and move Nigeria’s resources to the next level of a developed nation and no longer a developing one.”
He urged participants to look beyond the event by using their God’s given talent to add value to Nigeria’s natural resources, adding that they should cease the opportunity of networking for a lifetime, thus, exchange ideas and bring it to limelight, making the nation proud.
Earlier, the representative of the Director FCT Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), Education Secretariat Mr. Olobashola Kolawole, the Director Admin Rakiya Mohammad Ibrahim, expressed his notion that, the competition has not only exposed the students to the various raw materials derived in Nigeria but has also arouse the interest of the young people on the development and utilization of the nation’s local materials.
In his remarks, the Chairman Coordinating Committee of the Quiz Competition Dr. James Baba said the schools and students were carefully selected for the programme.
