He lamented that Nigerian scholars don’t feature in the list for Nobel Prize because of lack of funding to carry out prolonged cutting – edge research.He said: “We do not have enough funding for research in this country and the benchmark is at least five per cent of your gross domestic products which should be set aside for research. We are not even investing one per cent.
“To win a Nobel Prize is a product of sustained and rigorous research in the academic discipline, it is not a one-off thing. The average age for a Nobel prize winner is from 50 years, which means that the person would have been doing research for at least 10 years to make a major breakthrough in his area of specialisation.”
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