The Vice-Chancellor of the African School of Economics, Abuja, Prof Mahfouz Adedimeji, has called for collaboration among universities while tasking them on the need to proffer solutions to national and global challenges.
Adedimeji made the call in his address, titled “Ideas Rule the World,” delivered at the fourth Public Lecture of the university on June 26, 2025.
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The lecture, “The 21st Century Nigerian University: Pitfalls and Pathways,” was delivered by Prof Moses Ochonu of Vanderbilt University, United States.
Citing a study by the University of Lincoln, Adedimeji identified 10 grand challenges of the 21st century as changing economic powers, living in a global society, void of vision and foresight, technological disruption, migration and mobility, conflict and war and civic disaffection.
He also listed increasing inequality of wealth and income, mitigating environmental and ecological damage as well as identities and changing norms in society.
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He noted that addressing these challenges required functional university education and urged universities to come together to overcome those challenges as well as the national ones.
The VC said universities should synergise.
“I, therefore, call for concerted efforts of the Triple-Helix, the government, the academia and the industry/society in accordance with the university’s pride of place by doing what is right at the right time. It is said that one can travel fast alone but can only travel far together,” he said.
The guest speaker identified the challenges facing Nigerian universities while condemning what he referred to as the subversion of the cosmopolitan ethos of higher education that has given room to provincialism and inbreeding. He advocated for the introduction of the Student Bill of Rights and called for the recognition of excellent teachers in the system as a way of enhancing quality teaching.
The lecture was attended by stakeholders in the university system, including the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof Abdullahi Ribadu; the Secretary-General of the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof Andrew Haruna, both of whom delivered their goodwill messages, and vice-chancellors and representatives of universities, academics and the public, who contributed to the discussion.
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