As no fewer than 250 Nigerian Sociologists are converging on the University of Ibadan to discuss the effects of the two years of President Muhammadu Buhari Change agenda on Nigerians, the Chairman Local Organising Committee for the 22nd Annual National Conference of the Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Practitioners Association (NASA), Dr Adebimpe Adenugba on Sunday asked the Federal government to partner with Sociologists in researching social problems and problems associated with change’
Dr Adenugba who dropped this hint while speaking on the conference disclosed that the theme of the conference “Contours of Change: Modern Conflict and Mode of Production in Nigeria” has been carefully chosen to capture the dynamics of conflicts and its effects on Nigeria.
According to the Chairman of the Local organizing committee, the
Nigerian sociologists believed that a sociological approach to studying the change as being executed by government and experienced by Nigerians may be a way out of the woods towards providing solutions to the current myriads of problems bedeviling Nigeria.
Disclosing that the 22nd Annual National Conference of the Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Practitioners Association (NASA) is slated for 7th and 8th November at the Faculty of the Social Sciences University of Ibadan, Dr Adenugba added that “there is no doubt that the policies of government has manifested in different coutours of human social life in nigeria in the last two years.”
Emphasizing that there is the need for the federal government to partner with Sociologists in researching social problems and problems associated with ‘change’, she stressed that “the conference will see how Nigerian families are affected positively or negatively by the change.”
“As association of scholars and researchers, we are converging to scrutinise change in different aspects of our social life. How for instance is change influencing fundamentalism? How is the change affecting women and children? How does this change influence movement of people around Nigeria and outside the country in search for better future? and How has the change agenda contributed to lowering or increasing corruption in Nigeria? She said.
Dr Adenugba added ” all these questions are going to be answered by researchers and government is going to benefit from this. they should partner with scholars here in Nigeria. No foreign scholar does what we do and know”
