Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has called for more financial and intellectual investments in STEM education in the country with an appeal to the youths to take STEM learning and opportunities more seriously.
Obi opined that economic progress largely depends on innovation, invention, development, and profusion of new technologies, which are borne out of scientific research. He argued, therefore, that STEM plays a direct role in driving economic progress, little wonder more STEM-oriented economies perform strongly on a wide range of economic indicators.