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The national research fund has been increased from N7.5 billion to the tune of N8.5 billion in 2021, following its approval by the Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.
Also, the organisation announced a total of N5 billion in special intervention to the University of Lagos to be captured in the 2021 budget.
The Chairman, TETFund Board of Trustees, Alhaji Kashim Imam, made these known in Abuja on Thursday during a two-day capacity-building workshop for heads of beneficiary institutions and staff of TETFund centres of excellence.
According to him, the intervention for UNILAG which was on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari was also carried out in the University of Abuja in 2020.
Imam said no nation can develop without research, stressing the importance of research as a prerequisite for national development.
Imam, speaking on the academic development programme of the fund, warned that if the country funded infrastructure without research and scholarships, the institutions would only be half-fulfilled.
He announced that TETFund would add another 12 centres of excellence next year and allocate N1billion to each.
“Six state Universities and six polytechnics will be added to the centres of excellence next year, and 70 per cent of the funds will be for research funding,” he said.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, said, “Within the five-year gestation period of the TCOE Project, we await success stories and manifest achievements that will stretch the limits of our expectations.
“The R&D and innovation flame has been ignited in Nigeria, thanks to our modest efforts, but the future of this initiative and the possibility of the R&D flame developing into a raging inferno that transforms the research landscape in Nigeria rests squarely on your shoulders”, he stated.
President Muhammadu Buhari said he is impressed with the Katsina state governor, Aminu Masari and the military. Buhari who was reacting to the release of the Kankara Schoolboys stated this […]
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