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AIAE hosts PARG on Capacity Building

AIAE has again demonstrated its commitment to expanding the frontier of knowledge as it hosted the Policy Analysis and Research Group (PARG) of the Department of Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka on the 10th June, 2011. After taking the students round different units in the new office complex of the Institute, the Communications and Relation Manager of AIAE, Mr. Sola Oluwadare on behalf of the management, welcome the students and retreated the commitment of the Institute to evidence based research for policy making and promised to give the students every thing the Institute could afford to help them succeed in their academics.

Highlights of the working visit were two different presentations by a Research Fellow, Mr. Amaechi Chukwu and Mr. Onyukwu E. Onyukwu. Mr. Chukwu who spoke on ‘Nigeria’s Political Economy and Development: The Role of the Youth ‘, encouraged the students to see themselves as stakeholders in nation building, adding that the youths of today are leaders of tomorrow. He commended the youths for the role they played during the last elections in Nigeria and charged them not to take the back seats in the political and economic process of the country.

In his presentations, Mr. Onyukwu, AIAE Training Coordinator who spoke on, ‘Prospering through Economics Profession: Learning The Basic’, said many opportunities awaited the students after their graduation if they would take their studies serious. He stressed that while some of them might be employed to run the economy of any organisation tomorrow some would do well in self employing jobs, noting that their major strength is in understanding the quantitative aspect of the subject to enhance their skills. The students severally expressed their appreciation for the training and promised to make use of the knowledge they gained from the visit to advance their studies.