The founder of Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David Oyedepo has said that agriculture remains panacea for Africa’s development.


The cleric who made this known at the third convocation of the university emphasized that what African nations need for sustainable growth and development is a generation of indigenous solutions, particularly in the field of agriculture. He cautioned Africans against allowing western education to destroy native intelligence that they were divinely endowed with.

Oyedepo, who said that forefathers in Africa started farming, identification of edible plants and crops before the coming of colonialists, added that poverty among black men was a product of unused brain and capacity to think solution.

Explaining that there is no united nations anywhere but committee of nations, Oyedepo added that every nation bore its cross, as many countries currently faced their challenges.

He said knowledge is the new currency of the world, adding that application of knowledge would bring about desired changes.

In his keynote address at the convocation, the pioneer vice chancellor, Michael Okpara (Federal) University of Agriculture, Umudike, Professor Placid Njoku, said that the federal government, through the ministry of Education, should direct the.

The founder of Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David Oyedepo has said that agriculture remains panacea for Africa’s development.

The cleric who made this known at the third convocation of the university emphasized that what African nations need for sustainable growth and development is a generation of indigenous solutions, particularly in the field of agriculture. He cautioned Africans against allowing western education to destroy native intelligence that they were divinely endowed with.

Oyedepo, who said that forefathers in Africa started farming, identification of edible plants and crops before the coming of colonialists, added that poverty among black men was a product of unused brain and capacity to think solution.

Explaining that there is no united nations anywhere but committee of nations, Oyedepo added that every nation bore its cross, as many countries currently faced their challenges.

He said knowledge is the new currency of the world, adding that application of knowledge would bring about desired changes.

In his keynote address at the convocation, the pioneer vice chancellor, Michael Okpara (Federal) University of Agriculture, Umudike, Professor Placid Njoku, said that the federal government, through the ministry of Education, should direct the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), and the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), to “totally revise their curriculum for the agriculture discipline to formally integrate entrepreneurship, approve agripreneurship as a full degree/Diploma/NCE programme in all faculties, colleges and universities of Agriculture, and approve a mandatory agripreneurship immersion period for all students of Agriculture”.

to “totally revise their curriculum for the agriculture discipline to formally integrate entrepreneurship, approve agripreneurship as a full degree/Diploma/NCE programme in all faculties, colleges and universities of Agriculture, and approve a mandatory agripreneurship immersion period for all students of Agriculture”.