The Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy has inaugurated a think tank as part of its plans to promote good governance, democracy and development in the country.
The Chairman of ISGPP, Prof. Akin Mabogunje, said the think tank, which is called Public Policy Group, would promote “serious development in Nigeria.”
Magojunje, according to a statement issued on Friday, said the group’s responsibility included advancing knowledge required for transforming public institutions through the rethinking of the governance space.
According to the statement, the PPG, headed by Prof. Ademola Oyejide of the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, comprises distinguished intellectuals and highly experienced professionals from various academic fields and vocations.
The statement partly read, “The ISGPP seeks to leverage on the wealth of knowledge, experience and distinct progressive thinking of these resource persons in the pursuit of its strategic objective to get the Federal Government to work better than it is presently doing for democratic governance and development.”
The Executive Vice-Chairman of ISGPP, Dr. Tunji Olaopa, said he hoped that the ISGPP, through the PPG, would be able to intervene in Nigeria’s policy environment through “facilitating a creative response to the development predicament.”
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