Babatunde Fashola (SAN), former Minister of Works and Housing, has urged universities (gown) to feed industries and people (town) with research solutions to pursue national growth and development.
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The Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello has called on all industries to support Universities with peculiar needs, particularly in research in order to create solutions to the nation’s challenges.
TETfund has been doing very well in bridging the Infrastructural Gaps in Tertiary Institutions across the country especially now under the leadership direction of its current Chairman. Some States owned Institutions of Higher Learning have no source of capital budget except through TETfund. It is therefore good for Tetfund to look into other areas of national development and that’s why Research has become an important national agenda to promote.
The Committee, chaired by Prof. Mu’azu Bashir, a professor of Computer and Control Engineering and Head of Computer Engineering Department at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was inaugurated at the Commission’s Head Office in Abuja on September 24, 2020.
Oyetola said it was high time for the leadership of the nation’s tertiary institutions, particularly universities, to prove their strength in finding solutions to the myriad of challenges confronting the country.
Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health in Australia said that the blood pressure lowering effects of salt substitutes could prevent around 460,000 cardiovascular disease deaths annually, including 208,000 due to stroke and 175,000 due to heart disease.
The study, published Tuesday in the Lancet Public Health journal, included 1,109,343 dementia patients discharged from French hospitals during the period.
The deadly Ebola epidemic raging across West Africa will likely get far worse before it gets better, more than doubling the number of known cases by the end of this month.
Two researchers from the American University of Nigeria, Yola, have advocated a community-driven development model that actively engages rural farmers to foster sustainable agricultural development as a prerequisite to drastic reduction of the nation’s poverty crisis.