The Surveyor General of the Federation, Surv. Taiwo Adeniran has called for immediate review and update of school curriculum in our universities and Polytechnics to take into account recent technologies and development within the field of Geomatics.
He said the review became imperative to enable practitioners operate at the peak of the career and align with the emerging dynamics and technological advancement in the sector.
The SGoF made the call on Thursday, while delivering his paper at the Association of private Practicing Surveyors of Nigeria, APPSM’s seminar entitled: Surveying Practice in Federal Capital Territory: The Burden of Land Tenure System and Lack of Adaptability to Change, held in Abuja.
Surv. Adenoran identified land tenure system, capacity and the adaptability of the professional to respond positively to emerging challenges in FCT through innovation and acquisition of relevant skills as some of the prevailing issues that affect practice of surveying in FCT.
‘‘All we have to do is to consider the goals and come up with geospatial solutions that can facilitate the realization of the goals. Surveyors and geometricians must start thinking solutions because surveying and geometrics are about solutions. Our major problem is that we wait for people to create jobs for us, whereas we have to create it and provide solution for it.’’
Earlier in his welcome address, the Chairman, Association of Private Practicing Surveyors of Nigeria (APPSN), FCT branch, Surv. Sola Olukotun said the problem of surveying practice in FCT is not lack of efforts from the head of the major stakeholders but lack of understanding and funding from the political leadership, who failed to accept that surveying is the bedrock of every development.
He advised surveyors to participate in politic so as to defend their profession and take part in the policies concerning their profession and employed all the participants to put on all hands on deck to finding solution to the challenges of surveying practice in FCT.
