The President Muhamamdu Buhari-led Federal Government, has said that the current administration has started making many Nigerians billionaires, and therefore, called on Nigerians in the Diaspora to return home and seize the various economic opportunities to make billions of naira.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, made the call at an Investment Forum, organised in New York, by his Ministry, for Nigerians in the United States, U.S.
Onu, explained that various investment opportunities currently existed, and were waiting for them at home, challenging them to take it before they were given to foreigners.
“We are asking you to come and be billionaires. That is what we are asking you, not millionaires. Come and make billions.
“We will give you products of research at nothing or little cost to you, because it would be nice for the agency that has done this research, to get some little returns.
“So we give it (research products) to you, knowing that you will keep the money in Nigeria, you will help employ Nigerians, and you will help to grow our Gross Domestic Product (GDP).“It would also be nice for the Scientists, Engineers, who were involved in doing this research, just to get something, that’s all, but it would be very small.
“That is our interest; that is the reason why we are here”, the Minister said.
Onu, who was the National Chairman of the defunct ANPP, explained that the agencies under the Ministry, had already developed the research products through various stages of tests and trials.
According to him, we are asking Nigerians in the Diaspora that think home, come and take the researches that we have done.
“We have taken them to a level where you can now immediately convert them into products, make money out of it; that is the message.”
“We are working on a cure for epilepsy; there is a drug that one of our agencies is working on, it is being tested now.
“And we know that epilepsy is a disease that is worldwide, and this agency will not on its own commercialise this drug.
“For NAFDAC to give its approval, there are so many stages of trials and tests that the drug has to pass through.
“But at the time that it must have satisfied all these conditions, we don’t want our researchers to go into commercialisation.
“Because if we do that, they would no longer continue with research; everybody would prefer to go and make money,” he said.
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