UI partners firm on innovation, creativity
Chairman of Board of Directors of Oodua Group of Companies and also a member of the University of Ibadan (UI) Research Foundation/ Co-Chair of Think-Tank, Dr. Segun Aina, has said that opportunities disguise as challenges in Africa.

Aina, who is Chairman of Opolo Global Innovation Limited, stated this during the signing of a memorandum of agreement to create a platform that supports and encourages innovation and creativity with the University of Ibadan.

He noted that Nigerians could make the country work, saying that the organisation seeks to turn the country’s ivory towers into a society that solves societal problems and creates wealth through global solutions to common global problems.

Aina said under the agreement, the partners would harness new thinking and provide resources to encourage innovation and resourcefulness among students, adding that the project will promote social enterprises, provide solutions to social problems, as well as provide revenue in perpetuity for the university, the researchers and the participants.

In his remarks, the UI Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kayode Adebowale, said the agreement would be a very active one, adding that the university would render all necessary assistance to ensure the success of the project.

Adebowale, who stated that the university had consistently encouraged entrepreneurship, skills acquisition and innovation, noted that the encouragement of entrepreneurship had been identified for universities to impact the society meaningfully.