The need to reposition the Nigeria Engineering industry, explore and harness local content and engineers for economic development formed the basis of a day symposium in honour of Late engineering Legend, Engineer Emmanuel Oladeji.

The event which was held at the Function Hall, Jogor Centre, Ibadan, saw key speakers advocating the involvement of Nigerian Engineers in Nigeria capital projects.

Delivering a lecture on the topic: Engineering capacity Building Towards National Development, the lead speaker who is also the former Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Professor Olufemi Bamiro said Nigeria was dominated with low-level industrial competitiveness which he said must be addressed if the country must take its pride of place in the comity of nations.

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Represented by Professor Ayodeji Oluleye, Professor Bamiro decried the inability of Nigerian Universities to graduate thoroughly skilled engineers and challenged the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN, on the adoption of detailed guidelines to outcome-based education (OBE) benchmark for Engineering programmes in Nigerian Universities..

R-L Founder INTECON Partnership Ltd and a former President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engineer Alade presenting awards to representative of Professor Olufemi Bamiro former VC University of Ibadan,

Founder INTECON Partnership Ltd and a former President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engineer Alade Ajibola, Former CTO, IBEDC, Ade Ayileka and President Nigeria Society of  Engineers Ibadan chapter, Engineer Adekunle Olaoye said Nigerian government did not fully implement the local content initiative in terms of direct capital project execution by Nigeria engineers.

The son of the Late Engineer Emmanuel Oladeji, Engineer Olabode Akindeji-Oladeji said his father had impacted the country through several dams constructed within and outside the southwest zone as well as outside Nigeria.

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Songs of praise were also held where Engineer Olabode Akindeji-Oladeji took the participants down memory lane of his father’s academic and professional sojourn while on earth..

Rotimi Famakin.

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