FORMER Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Peter Okebukola has given a huge task to African academics: research into ways of tackling terrorism in the continent.

Okebukola said this in Ilorin at the opening ceremony of the Third Six Universities (U6) international conference.

Besides, he said universities with their intrinsic modicum of knowledgeable players in them are well placed to tackle local, national and global challenges ravaging the world.