FG budgets N3bn for research

The Federal Government has budgeted N3 billion for researches in Federal and State public tertiary institutions.

This was disclosed by Dr. Abdullahi Baffa, Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Funds (TETFUND), who revealed that the fund has allocated N15 million to lecturers in the universities and N10 million to polytechnics and colleges of education lecturers to fund their researches.

Baffa added that the funds are research grants awarded to qualified scholars who participate in rigorous process of screening, after sending their proposals adding that TETFUND was determined to support cutting edge research that would help the future of Nigeria.“Research is one of the core mandates of the fund; the fund is supposed to bridge the infrastructural gap in our public tertiary institutions. About N3 billion has been earmarked to support the high impact research at the National Research Fund level,” he said.

“We have been supporting research institutions, where we can allocate up to N15 million for academics in the Universities and up to N10 million to academics in Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.

“Such research would increase our production and improve our efficiency and easing the lives of our citizens. The more we research, the more we industrialize ‎our country. And the more we create more jobs.”