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The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ali Rabiu, has bemoaned the alarming decay of infrastructure nationwide and the rising poverty among Nigerians.
He charged engineers in the country to take a leading role in addressing the pressing national challenges bedevilling the country.
Rabiu made the call during the inauguration of Gradeone Ogheneovo Idama as the new Chairman of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ughelli Branch, at the weekend.
Specifically, he tasked engineers in Nigeria and in the diaspora to rise to the challenge through practical, impactful interventions aimed at mitigating the challenges.
Rabiu noted that the growing levels of poverty, infrastructure decay, and social inequality in Nigeria’s communities demand practical, visible intervention, adding that engineers must be at the forefront of solving these problems.
The NSE President charged its members nationwide to proactively conceive, advise on and execute impactful projects that directly address critical infrastructure areas such as housing, water supply, sanitation, energy access, transportation and other essential services within their respective communities.
Meanwhile, a professor of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Sustainable Production Systems, Omonigho Otanocha, has called for Nature-Aligned Engineering for sustainable industrial transformation in Nigeria.
Otanocha, who delivered the 13th Inaugural Lecture of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State, titled: ‘Let There Be Light: Engineered Systems Response for Nature and Industrial Harmony’, urged policymakers, engineers and industry stakeholders to embrace a development paradigm rooted in harmony with nature, stressing that sustainable progress must integrate technological advancement with ethical responsibility and long-term environmental stewardship.
He urged stakeholders to rethink industrial progress through nature–industry harmony, emphasising circular-economy principles, advanced manufacturing, and global sustainability models as pathways to responsible, future-oriented industrial transformation.
Otanocha emphasised the need to move away from purely production-driven engineering models toward sustainability-centred innovation anchored on ethics, wisdom, and environmental stewardship.
