Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan

Not fewer than 250 Nigerian Sociologists will on Tuesday and Wednesday converge on the University of Ibadan to discuss the effects of the two years of President Muhammadu Buhari Change agenda on Nigerians.

The Sociologists believed that a sociological approach to studying the change agenda as being implemented by government and experienced by Nigerians may be a way out of the woods towards providing solutions to the current myriads of problems bedeviling the country.

This will be the focus at the 22nd Annual National Conference of Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Association (NASA), slated for Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan.

Chairman, Local Organising Committee of the conference, Mrs Adebimpe Adenugba, said the theme of the conference, "Contours of Change: Modern Conflict and Mode of Production in Nigeria" has been carefully chosen to capture the dynamics of conflicts and its effects on Nigeria.

According to her, there is no doubt that the policies of government has manifested in different coutours of human social life in Nigeria in the last two years.

While asking the Federal Government to partner with Sociologists in researching social problems and problems associated with 'change', she stated that the conference will see how Nigerian families are affected positively or negatively by the change.

She said, "As association of scholars and researchers, we are converging to scrutinise change in different aspects of our social life. How for instance is change influencing fundamentalism? How is the change affecting women and children? How does this change influence movement of people around Nigeria and outside the country in search for better future? And how has the change agenda contributed to lowering or increasing corruption in Nigeria? All these questions are going to be answered by researchers and government is going to benefit from this. they should partner with scholars here in Nigeria. No foreign scholar does what we do and know.”