Nigerian leaders at all levels need statistics education if there must be genuine development and transformation in the country.
GEJ, Governors, Leaders Need Statistics Education — UI Don
Getting proper statistics education will help President Jonathan and other leaders bring about genuine development, says a statistics experts, Dr. Olusanya Olubusoye.
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A statistics experts, Dr. Olusanya Olubusoye, said this while presenting presenting a lecture titled Statistical Literacy and Empirical Modelling for National Transformation' at the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan (UI).
Olubusoye said President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors of the 36 states in Nigeria would do better with statistics education, Daily Independent reports.
The UI don said the problem of governance in Nigeria is that leaders set "agenda without evaluation and monitoring".
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"Statistical literacy will engineer national transformation and ensure efficient citizenry," he said.
He said the transformation agenda has so far not succeeded because of the absence of quantifiable framework for evaluating implementation and tracking progress.
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