The Development of Technology in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorAlabi, Oladimeji Mohammed
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-14T14:41:17Z
dc.date.available2021-09-14T14:41:17Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractNigeria‟s strive for techno-industrial development has remained largely unsuccessful in spite of government constant policy statements assuring the citizens of commitment to technology programme. Since independence, various policies and programmes have been adopted to accelerate Nigeria‟s technological progress for over-all development. These include technology education anchored on the establishment of technical schools, polytechnics and universities of technology; the use of technology transfer through multi-national corporations; and more recently, the use of small and medium enterprises to boost self-employment and self-reliance. However, decades after the implementation of these programmes, technological development still remains a mirage in Nigeria. This paper thus examines potentials of techno-industrial revolution in Nigeria through the emulation of strategies employed by some developed and developing countries. Using both the primary and secondary sources of history, it traces the technological breakthrough in Britain, United States of America and Japan. It argue that Nigeria has huge potentials that can speedily transform her society through a well-established fundamental foundation. It explains further that with abundant water resources, vast arable land, solid minerals, good climate, growing population, indigenous creative ingenuity, and shrewd management of resources, Nigeria have the potential for self-reliance industrial development. It noted that Nigeria‟s pre-colonial and colonial economies were sustained by proceeds from agriculture, which relied heavily on indigenous technology. Like the developed countries, Nigeria has favourable climate, abundant rainfall, well spread indigenous technology and a massive population, which could be utilize to facilitate the much desired techno-industrial transformation. It concludes that result-oriented exploitation of natural resources, strong political will, visionary leadership, appropriate and purposeful technology education and the diversification of the economy, are important pre-conditions for Nigeria‟s technological take-off and sustainable development.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2465-7336
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/6320
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of History and International Relations, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeriaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries5;1
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjecttechnologyen_US
dc.subjectnatural resourcesen_US
dc.subjecttechnology educationen_US
dc.titleThe Development of Technology in Nigeriaen_US
dc.title.alternativeLessons from Historyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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