The Tertiary Education Trust Fund has promised to involve private research institutes and educational institutions for research in the seven point five billion naira research grant recently approved by the Federal Government.
A statement by TETFund Director, Public Affairs, Ngoba Briggs, said its Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Bogoro and the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr. Mohammed Umar, stated this at the inauguration of an implementation committee on the collaboration between the FMoST and TETfund in Abuja.
It added that the ten-man committee which comprises officials from both the Ministry and TETFund was inaugurated “as a follow-up to a Memorandum of Understanding signed between both parties in January 2020 to boost Research and Development, R&D, for the technological and overall economic development of the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Dr Mohammed Umar was quoted to have said the partnership between the Ministry and TETFund was geared towards driving the Nigerian economy through science and technology with adequate funding.
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