Nigeria, March 26 -- The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has explained why government depends less on the output of local researchers.

According to Olaopa, it is probably because local research does not contain deep and practical content that solves the specific problems of government.

The professor of public administration spoke on Wednesday when the Director General of the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research ( NISER), Prof. Antonia Simbine, paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja.

To Olaopa, the interface between the policy space and research industry needs a "recalibration with a significant dose of strategic communication which requires a lot of research evangeli...