Nigerian mathematicians storm OAU for annual conference

It was a time to come together for the Nigerian Mathematical Society of Nigeria as it held its 32nd annual conference hosted by the Obafemi Awolowo Chapter.

The three-day programme which was well attended by delegates from various chapters across the country featured series of lectures, parallel sessions and dinner party.

At the opening ceremony held on the second day of the conference, Prof. Sola Adeyeye of the National Assembly emphasized the importance of Mathematics in a nation’s development.

Delivering a lecture titled; Mathematics: An Effective Tool for Poverty Alleviation and Solving Problems of Security and Climatic changes, he noted that Mathematics has solution to various problems in the society including that of poverty.

“Nigeria will not know unity,peace or progress until Nigerians in power and our citizenry at large abandon the reckless notion that Nigeria is rich. A country that claims to be rich needs no poverty alleviation.”

The lawmaker noted that the country is faced with the problem of illiteracy which is the inability to read and write and ill-literacy which is a condition whereby literate men and women are chronically impaired and fail in the analysis of their existence.

Stressing that the country is suffering from a failure of the inability to internalize the implications of simple arithmetic evaluation of our contemporary limitations, he emphasized that Mathematics can be used in the diagnosis and reduction of poverty.

Rendering statistics from foreign countries, Sen. Adeyeye who doubles as the Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Education bemoaned the pitiful status of education in the country.