The Osun State University economic scholars were recently sponsored by the university to attend the 60th annual conference of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) at the Nigerian Air Force Conference Centre, Kado, Abuja between 16th and 18th September, 2019 to network, research and deliberate on the Economic Policies and Quality of Life in Africa and other issues affecting the members of the professional body, NES.

The Conference which started on Monday 16th September 2019 with the opening ceremony had in attendance representatives from national and international institutions like the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) among others. In the afternoon of that 16th, the first plenary session was held. The sub-theme of this session was Conceptual and Structural Issues in Quality of Life. This session was chaired by Prof. Sam Olofin.
On Tuesday the 17th, the first policy round table and second preliminary session was held and it was titled “Leveraging Role of the Public Sector in Enhancing Quality of Life in Africa” and “Opportunities and Challenges of Enhancing Quality of Life in Africa” This session was chaired by Prof. (sir) Ibi Ajayi, a fellow of NES. Some papers presented under this session were Place of Happiness and Subjective Indicators of Wellbeing in Quality of Life Issues by Prof Peter Olapegba. And Environmental Issues, Access to Water and Quality of Life in Nigeria by Prof C.O. Orubu. Prof Olapegba mentioned that Quality of life is a concept that cut across different fields like Sociology, Medicine, Psychology and Economics. He also maintained that happiness is very important as part of quality of life. A rich person may not be experiencing a good quality of life especially if he is not happy. He stated that contentment is one of the indicators to having a good quality life.

The second policy round table was held with the focus on “Leveraging Role of the Private Sector in Enhancing Quality in Life in Africa” followed by the first and second concurrent sessions where different papers were presented. The papers were presented under the following sub-themes; Economic Policies and Poverty in African Countries, Economic Policies and Educational Outcomes in Africa, Economic Policies and the Quality of Health Care and Nutrition, Economic Policies and Quality of Road Infrastructure in African Countries.
On the last day Wednesday, 18th of September, 2019, the third and fourth concurrent sessions were held and different papers by authors were presented under the following sub-themes; Economic Policies and Poverty in African Countries, Economic Policies and Educational Outcomes in Africa, Economic Policies and the Quality of Health Care and Nutrition, Economic Policies and Unemployment/ Economic Inequality in Africa.

Before this session was declared closed, award of Fellow of NES, was given to the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, CON. Chief Bisi Ogunjobi, OON, Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie and two others were also awarded Fellow of NES on Monday the 16th September.
Among the issues deliberated on was the arising confusion of some people calling themselves chattered Economist, the deliberation which was chaired by the NES president now decree that NES is the only professional body for Economist and that there is nothing like Chartered Economist. Also, that there would be the induction of graduating students of Economics into NES and that professionals should encourage every staff in the Department of Economics to become a member of NES.