The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonaya Onu is to deliver the 2016 “Republic Day” Lecture of Ghana as one of the key activity of events marking the 56^th anniversary of Ghana as an independent country, scheduled to hold on Thursday 30^th June, 2016.

Ghana, gained independence from Britain on 6^th march, 1957 and became a Republic on 1^st march 1960.

The theme for this year’s lecture is “Technology, the key to African Development” and would be climaxed by a state Lunch in honour of Ghana’s Senior Citizens on Friday July 1^st 2016 to which Onu has also been invited.

It would be recalled that the Minister of  Science and Technology, has since assumption of duty, emphasized that Africa has largely  remained under developed because of past and even present Africa leaders’ failure to properly see and embrace Science and technology  as the key to national Development.