A senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, College of Chemical Sciences in the Redeemer’s University, Ede in Osun State, Prof. Olalere Gabriel Adeyemi, has charged the federal government to make research grants accessible to all tertiary institutions in the country.
He added that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) should extend the disbursement of the fund to private tertiary institutions in the country, because, according to him, “majority of tax payers also send their children to private universities.”
Delivering the Redeemer’s University’s inaugural lecture series two titled ‘Organometallics: A Fruitful Amalgamation of Metal and Ligand’, Adeyemi lamented that many private universities are being discriminated against in accessing research funds.
The professor of Chemistry, who noted that the Redeemer’s University trains Nigerians to be better and more qualified graduates at post basic level, said the institution’s research output both in quantity and quality, qualifies it for the TETfund grant.
The university don also advised that basic science, which, he said, is the backbone of all applied sciences must be sustained and well supported by Nigerian universities.