Defence Minister Musa urges students to tackle insecurity with research, innovation, patriotism

The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has urged students successful Nigerian tertiary institutions to harness research, innovation and patriotism to code the nation’s escalating information challenges.

Speaking connected Thursday successful Abuja astatine the Student Mentorship Summit, organised by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), General Musa, represented by his Special Adviser, Olusanya Bankole, emphasised that Nigerian students stay cardinal to nationalist development.

He observed that galore of the world’s astir precocious subject technologies originated from universities, stressing that the relation of Nigerian students successful securing the state cannot beryllium overstated.

According to him, “Across the world—from Israel to the United States—students thrust probe and development, including innovations similar GPS and the archetypal unmanned drones.”

He advised students ne'er to bounds themselves, noting that the national authorities nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has created much opportunities for young people, including entree to interest-free loans done the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).

The curate stressed that mentorship indispensable beryllium coupled with patriotism, subject and idiosyncratic responsibility, emphasising that students are not lone the leaders of time but leaders of today, arsenic information is not solely a subject interest but a interest for all.