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  • Fed Govt ‘ll deepen research, devt

    •Supports Omatek on 85% power utilisation cut

    The Federal Government has identified lack of funding and effective coordination as reason for lack of technological development in the country, stressing that the current administration is keen on ensuring that it deepens research and development (R&D) that would unlock the nation’s economic prosperity through effective partnership with indigenous players in the science and technology (S&T) industry.

    The Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. OgbonayaOnu, who spoke yesterday during his official visit to Omatek’s manufacturing factory in Lagos also expressed government’s readiness to work with Omatek Ventures Plc, on the latter’s target to reduce power consumption by households, businesses and government by 85 per cent.

    He said:  “This is because any support we give to her is also a support to Nigeria. No nation has ever been truly great in the world without science and technology. Nigeria should aspire to be a truly great nation in technology innovation in the world. What is lacking is that over the years, the Nigerian government has not paid adequate attention to technology.

    He said: “No nation has ever succeeded by not looking inward. Every great nation has looked inward to patronise their locally-developed technological innovations and other products and as such, Nigeria is looking towards that direction as well towards encouraging patronage of locally-developed products. The earlier we do this, the better for us.”

    He noted that for many years, Nigeria has remained a mono-economy relying on oil as the major source of foreign exchange earnings, stressing that “the current administration is bent on leveraging Information and Communication Technology and Science and Technology as an enabler of economic development and to diversify the economy.”

    Having been in existence for almost 30 years, Omatek has diversified its operations from just manufacturing computer devices to venturing into the manufacturing of solar and hybrid technology solutions and LED bulbs directed at addressing the power vacuum in Nigeria.

    While conducting the Minister, his entourage and other stakeholders on a tour of the different lines of production in the factory, the Group Managing Director of Omatek Ventures Plc, Mrs. Florence Seriki, said while power generation and distribution have been a major issue in the country, leveraging solar power solutions would play a significant role in dealing with the issue of power vacuum in the country.

  • ‘Research can boost poultry, animal production’

    For poultry and animal production to be viable, they must be research-driven, an expert, Dr Olugbenga Ogunwole has said.

    Ogunwole of the Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan, spoke  during a a workshop by the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) in Ibadan.

    The poultry sector, he said, is one of the sustainable and decent employers of labour in Nigeria, and has a predictable and high return on investment across the value chain of breeding, production, feeding production and supply chains.

    Ogunwole, however, said challenges of the poultry production sector, such as vagaries of weather, poor elasticity of production, high cost of poultry feeds and vaccination, poor production efficiency, sub-standard inputs and activities of quacks parading themselves as professionals, among others, had encumbered the growth of the sector and hence the economy.

    On how the sector could boost the economy, especially in hard times, Ogunwole said affordable labour, high demand for eggs, poults and increasing demand for cheaper sources of protein as the population increases and urban dwellers surges were factors energising the poultry industry to contribute to the local production, processing and utilisation of the products.

    As the way forward, he suggested a strategy to make the industry competitive – effective linkage with research institutes and new technologies like the one between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli poultry farmers.

    Speaking on the theme, ‘Enhancing Nigerian economy through poultry,’Oyo State P oultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) Chairman, Mr Olabanji Akanji, said poultry has great potential for revamping the economy if given the needed attention by stakeholders.

    “While we covet and plead for massive government support for the industry, we cannot but keep investing in the industry in our own little way as individuals for all these have effects on the nation’s economy.

  • ‘We can end plagiarism, enhance local research’

    ‘We can end plagiarism, enhance local research’

    UniCentral is a Nigerian educational enterprise striving to provide educational, social and support benefits to students worldwide and to help develop IT for sustainable national development. Its MD/CEO, Mrs Zsuzanna Ogunmiloyo, a Hungarian married to a Nigerian, explains how her organisation plans to utilise its global experience to help Nigeria earn respect and foreign exchange through educational research.

    Could you give us an insight into what you are trying to do with the National Universities Commission (NUC)?

    What our organisation, Unicentral, is trying to do is to fill a vacuum towards tackling our developmental challenges in Nigeria. Nigeria is a country blessed with an unusually high number of cerebral people of high intellect whose sound capabilities should be a real blessing. However we have not really put such intellectual capital to much use for the nation’s benefit in the 21st century’s knowledge economy.

    Far back when we were children, Nigeria and countries such as China, Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea used to be grouped as Third World countries.  In spite of ambitious programmes like Vision 2020 and others, not much has happened so far.

    We decided to do a survey of what could probably be the problem in comparison to other countries with whom we were categorized as Third World back then. We realised that here in Nigeria we have lots of innovative ideas; people reach out for further education in various fields, including science and technology. Indeed, many Nigerians are all over the globe, working with NASA, IBM and other tech giants that are developing novel things and ideas.

    Part of the problem we have is that here, the ideas do not team up or join forces. To actualize development, science must be able to speak with technology and innovation if we really want to get something enduring out of it all.

    We approached the Federal Government; spoke with a couple of people in the government circles. We wrote to the Ministry of Education, the NUC and the commission gave us the go ahead to do a presentation, which was widely accepted.  Then, we took a further step to meet the Committee of Vice Chancellors, where they all accepted that it is highly necessary that we implement our initiatives.

    There is no way we can do things like this without funding and support. So, we started speaking with other government agencies.

    What we are doing is finding digital solution towards our nation’s intellectual enrichment. In Nigeria, any good thing that you diligently search for is within reach. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) came to our aid. When we met their Head of Research and Development, he was very enthusiastic.  He said it was dear to his heart and thought we should go ahead with it and he gave his support. That was how the funding started and we did the pilot scheme.

    Is the funding from NITDA enough to drive your project?

    From NITDA we got our initial technical and financial support and since then, NITDA’s Dr Vincent Olatunji has been monitoring affairs, making sure that things are working accordingly and we have been planning together. We have been speaking to other agencies and the response has been overwhelming as well. They also want our collective efforts on this programme to succeed. We just got back from the Ministry of Science and Technology. The shockingly pleasant assurance they gave us is that everyone is ready to move forward; petroleum is not the only thing that we should rely on, we can as well make much of our knowledge and intellectual endowments. So, that is where we are.

    What we have done thus far is that we have visited our universities because our stuff comes in two phases, we have the innovative findings, then we have the people who are just starting to do research. The only place where you can link up with people who are just starting to do research is in the Nigerian universities and higher institutions. After much deliberation with them, we discovered that a lot of researches in the universities are not original. So they asked us to come up with a robust system to identify plagiarised research work. We approached a Nigerian software engineer who is helping develop a very effective software. In the United States and Europe, they have such software like Turnitin which is being used by some 15, 000 institutions and about 30 million students and researchers. Such software would revolutionise the experience of writing to learn and its formative feedback and originality checking services would promote critical thinking. We also want to score students’ theses faster and more accurately than ever before.

    Does that imply that it could put an end to plagiarism?

    With such software, what they do basically is that once you put your words in the system, it will scan it and tell you the multiple sources where you have copied. Once this kicks off, as a student or researcher, you will have to do your work. We know that it is going to be very challenging for students initially because of resources or materials but it is going to mark a major shift from our usual way of doing things.

    Normally, the current process is such that students go to their lecturers for correction of every page but lecturers can only correct the use of English and what is being put in there. Now, once you finish your dissertation, our organisation and various institutions/agencies will make our system freely available to students. All they need to do is to upload the research work through us and we generate a report for the school. The school will call you and say: ‘Look, what can you say about this?’ We all know that copying someone else’s original work without permission or attribution is a criminal offence under copyright laws. That is by the side but the essence of having it is to do things that can push Nigeria to greater heights tomorrow.

    Once students upload their academic work, how does the report or analyses come out?

    Once students upload and send to us, we will generate report and within two to three days send it back to the school. It will not go directly to the student. The other option is that students can get materials from us – there is nothing stopping students from getting materials from the website but you must acknowledge the original source. That is how it works. Once the report is generated and sent back to school, they will have to go and redo it again until they get it right.

    What of a situation where a student who has finished the final year thesis and is about leaving school when this new system makes the institution to realise that the thesis is plagiarised; what happens to such a student?

    That means the student is not qualified to graduate; that is how it is done everywhere. It also means that we need to work with institutions’ academic calendar now. We have to do things in timelier manner and possibly make all arrangements ahead of time. If you are graduating in May, at least by the preceding December, we need to have your materials with us. We are starting with the Federal and State universities, thereafter, we will go to private universities, the polytechnics and Colleges of Education, it is not a thing that we are going to finish overnight, and it is going to be consistent and continuous.

    Will you be starting afresh with current and future academic work without looking at the past?

    We intend to start afresh, making a paradigm shift that would help move Nigeria, its academic and research works towards a great future. This will take me to the second phase of our discussion; the reason why we cannot go far backwards now is that we also want to archive current and future discoveries and findings. When you want to archive, you need enormous time and commitment to do it well. We will be using specialized software and scanners, so it is better we start afresh.

    We have a new government that stands for solid and enduring change from the old ways. However, we are going to give serious attention to intellectually mature researches and innovations that had been condemned to sitting idly in the shelves of various agencies. We want to see how we can archive them, display and commercialise them; any one that needs patents, we will help them do the patency. For any research work that needs further advise or research, we will give them a pointer of where to go.

    The only problem we have in Nigeria is that when references to global or international academic material are needed, or when those outside want to access what we have, they cannot fly to Nigeria every day. We depend on the Internet. Nevertheless, practically the internet in various schools across all parts of Nigeria is not working.

    In this area, we are going to be a repository and connecting nexus with the global research or academic community.

    Does it mean that you will promote outstanding academic and research works in Nigeria to earn international attention and investment?

    Yes! Our idea generally is to start again from the scratch. I feel most grateful to Mr. President, General Mohammadu Buhari. Lately, one of the things that Mr President’s administration has been talking about is benefit of research and self-reliance.

    Do you then see your effort as another dimension of the Buhari administration’s change mantra?

    Exactly! Hitherto, so much attention had been on physical products that can be exported but I can assure you that our people’s academic or research efforts can equally earn global respect and economic results for Nigerians and the nation. The special significance of crude oil is fading away so, we just have to move forward.

    The other agency too we are waiting for them, we are going there daily to discuss with them and the responds has been overwhelming as well but so far the Nigerian mass media has done tremendous job of supporting our initiatives. They are, they are the ones who have been doing a lot of things, including introducing our ides to universities on our behalf.

    Thus far, how many Nigerian universities have you visited?

    We have been to practically 20 federal universities so far. Along the line, we heard about a Professor in Ahmadu Bello University who went to mark academic papers in another university that is not in the Northern part of Nigeria. When he got there, he realised that he was assessing a paper was more like a copy of his own original work and was he was shocked.

    However, once we fully establish our central hub in Nigeria, once you type in or upload just two paragraphs, it will tell you where the content originated.

    Are there potentials for job creation in this effort?

    Yes, our initiative will create jobs as well. Right now, our own organizational strength comprises of fifteen employees. But in the second phase alone, we shall be creating zonal offices. Each one of the six zonal offices would require personnel. Furthermore, in the universities we will need at least three people in every university, to guide stakeholders and explain modalities when necessary. When you multiply that alone, you will be looking at almost 750 people being engaged during our first year.

     

  • Ex-UI VC urges Fed Govt to include research funds in budget

    A former  Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Prof Olufemi Bamiro, has urged the Federal Government  to make provisions for research funds in appropriation bills.

    His position was shared by a university don Prof Layi Fagbenle  at the book lunch to celebrate the 81st birthday of Prof Babajide Lucas.

    The book was entitled: “Renewable Natural Resoruces Engineering: Essays in honour of Canon Prof Babajide Lucas”.

    Bamiro said:  “This is a country that has depended so much on oil,  which has become traditional energy, but surely we can see now the way the world is going, everybody is looking towards renewable energy. We have to look into the direction of solar energy supply. In Nigeria, we still need to be serious in our energy drive because the world  is moving away from oil and gas to the renewable and the non- renewable, which must be utilised.”

    Fagbenle  said: “ When nations are focused on research result, they will get developed and many problems will be solved. I know what my student go through before they can be able to finish their research work due to funding.”

    The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof Idowu Olayinka, who was represented by the Deputy VC Administration, Prof Emilolorun Ayilari, described Lucas as a disciplinarian and educationist.

  • Varsity, U.S. college partner on research

    Varsity, U.S. college partner on research

    The Ritman University (RU), a privately-owned institution in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State has signed an academic exchange agreement with Guildford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

    Its Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof Celestine Ntuen, signed the agreement with Guilford President Jane Fernandes to promote collaboration in research, staff and student exchange programmes.

    A statement on Guilford College’s website reads: “The exchange programme will promote joint research, lectures, conferences and professional development programmes. Students of both institutions will have the opportunity to experience another culture through semester-long exchanges.”

    The statement also said there would be exchange of ideas, information and materials between lecturers and students of the two schools. The hosting university, it was leant, will grant full access to libraries and privileges allowed by laws and policies guiding international students’ participation.

    By this agreement, Ritman University students will have opportunity to undergo a period of study in the U.S. and their counterparts will also be in Nigeria for studies. The VC said the agreement was is part of RU’s objective to promote excellence.

    Daniel Díaz, Guilford College’s Director of Study Abroad, said: “It is exciting to see the college forging an international partnership that has wonderful potential. Globalisation takes shape in many ways, and this is an excellent example of how the college is not only a part of that process but is leading the way.”

    Ntuen said the collaboration was one of the programmes the varsity had embarked on in the last four universities. He said some schools in Korea and U.S. had already indicated interest in working with RU.

  • Institute seeks N5 b for research centre

    Institute seeks N5 b for research centre

    The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), Dangote Foundation  and Access Bank Plc are collaborating to raise N5 billion to build a private research centre in Abuja.

    IHVN’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Patrick Dakum said the country had been a victim of many disease outbreaks and, as such, deserved a functional private research centre to complement the public ones.

    Dakum, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos, said a lot could be done to preserve human lives with the establishment of the centre.

    The centre, he said, will have laboratories, offices, training and lecture auditoriums when completed on a 2.5-hectare land.

    He urged Nigerians and corporate organisations to support the project, adding that the country has depended too long on the international community to fund most of its programmes.

    Dakum said: “The country has 3.2 million of her people living with HIV while 220,000 acquire the virus yearly.”

    Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Foundation, Zouera Youssoufu said her organisation was willing to support the aspirations of its collaborators, especially IHVN.

    Dangote Foundation’s focus, she said, include health apart from education and economic empowerment.

    “When we were approached to collaborate on the project, we agreed because it aligned with our focus area,” Youssoufu said.

    She said: “Saving and helping ourselves starts with us. The foundation is looking forward to being a part of the project”.

    Access Bank Executive Director (ED), Personal Banking Victor Etuokwu said the role of his bank was to provide the framework and bring together people to raise funds for the project.

    “We are not all about profits, we are also concerned about people and the environment,” Etuokwu said.

    Moreover, without good health, others things are meaningless.

  • Expert seeks functional agric research system

    An expert on economic development, Dr. Utiang Ugbe, has said eradication of hunger will require a functonal  agricultural research coordination system.

    Calling  for a unified bureau, Ugbe  stressed that making researches work for improved food security and nutrition requires coordination and implementation of appropriate policy interventions and getting researchers to work together to achieve given  objectives.

    He said: “There should be a unified bureau for the governance, coordination, management, and direction agricultural science, technology and innovations (STI) for the country.  The functions of the bureau will include hosting of partner-funded pilot projects on various aspects of agriculture, by aligning each project with the suited agricultural research campus, and the relevant private sector parties. This is how you ensure institutional learning and the effective digestion and diffusion of innovations from pilot projects into national priorities, policies and processes in agriculture.  The Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) hosted a small DFID (Department for International Development)-funded pilot project for about 30 months, and was able to adapt key elements of the technical template of the project into a major World Bank funded project which rolled out nationwide.”

    Currently, he said the ARCN has coordination and oversight functions of the national agricultural research system consisting of 15 or so national agricultural research institutes, and federal colleges of agriculture nationwide.

    He noted: “Each of the research institutes was created by an enabling law at a given point in time, and each has its own governing board. The current system does not appear to have a mechanism that would allow effective technical oversight and quality assurance in the development of market-oriented science, technology and innovation (STI) research by the agricultural research institutes. As a result, we now have a non-existent interface between agricultural STI and the private sector in the country.

    “But if you look at the structure in some countries, especially Brazil, India and Ghana, our system is not streamlined, and therefore does not have a workable technical quality assurance and oversight mechanisms. The boards of the research institutes are typically political appointees who are there just for the largesse, and not because they know a thing about agricultural research, science and technology. Rarely do you hear that a governing board of a national agricultural research institute has ever successfully fundraised from the private sector or from development donors for the institute, apart from occasional project support coming through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. Yet, the key function of a board in the business world is to serve as resource to the organisation, not unproductive cost centres that politically appointed boards typically have been.”

    He said the recommended system will have only a single governance structure or board for agricultural research in Nigeria, adding that since Nigeria is a federal political structure, any state may also establish its own agricultural research institute, just as we now have some state colleges of agriculture.

  • NDCMB, others collaborate on research

    A framework for developing a world-class research for the oil and gas Industry is being formulated by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Imperial College of London and four universities in Nigeria.

    This collaboration,  an initiative of  NCDMB, seeks to establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for oil and gas research at the Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State and the Niger Delta University, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

    The aim is to solve oil and gas industry problems in Nigerian universities and local research centres thereby growing local research capacities and retaining huge money,  spent on research overseas.

    Speaking at the Needs Assessment Workshop on the Board’s CoE initiative held at Imperial College, London, recently, the Acting Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Mr. Patrick Daziba Obah, represented by the General Manager, Zonal Coordination and Board’s Projects, Dr. Ginah O. Ginah, explained that the Board conceived the policy to galvanise the development of home grown research and technology in the oil and gas industry.

    Other objectives, according to him, include developing a pool of capable researchers and world class research centres, linking the oil and gas industry to academia and local supply chain through research programmes, and creating employment and training opportunities for Nigerians on the back of research projects domiciled in-country.

    He noted that the Imperial College has an enviable track record in research capabilities and collaboration with the oil and gas industry and would be expected to provide technical support to the Research Centres of Excellence being promoted by the Board.

    He noted that the Board invited the NNPC to participate in the CoE initiative because of the corporation’s leadership role and enormous influence in enforcing Federal Government’s policy in the oil and gas industry.

    The Head of Department for Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, Prof Mark Sephton, confirmed that the Institute had supported a number of countries on similar initiatives and was currently collaborating with Petrobras of Brazil to develop its Sustainable Gas Institute, a world class Research and Development institute for gas.

    He discussed various models for CoE and highlighted the need to develop the required infrastructure and adopt the right recruitment plan for the CoE. He promised that the institution would assist the Board with strategies for investment, funding models and as well as help distill identified research areas into specific scopes.

    The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Local Content, Hon. Emmanuel Ekon confirmed that the legislature’s participation in the workshop had offered them an opportunity to understand the workings of NCDMB and strategy for implementing Nigerian Content. He charged other agencies to engage the National Assembly in their activities so as to reduce executive/legislature friction over government initiatives.

    Hon. Ekon assured that the House of Reps will support NCDMB in its quest to establish centres of Excellence for Research and Development as well as on other initiatives.

    The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu had at a recent workshop on Nigerian Content Policy in Calabar, Cross Rivers State confirmed that the oil and gas industry would encourage Research and Development to drive the development of home grown technology, innovation and enhance production processes in the industry. The road map for the setting up of the R&D

  • TSA and varsity research

    •Govt should tweak TSA to achieve flexibility without sacrificing accountability

    From the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has come a loud rumble against the Treasury Single Account (TSA), saying the prime instrument, on which the Buhari Presidency is hinging its transparency, might just be hampering research.

    Dr. Alex Odiyi, the ASUU Akure zonal coordinator, mentioned two universities where TSA has slowed down the drawing of research funds. “At the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB), funds administered by the university for certain programmes spanning five African countries are trapped. The situation is the same at University of Lagos,” he said.  “At this time,” he warned rather dramatically, “Nigerian universities and researchers may be blacklisted and denied access to international grants.”

    Finance minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise, admitted that much, when she said the Federal Government was mulling over either exempting some university accounts from TSA; or making the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) pay interest on some varsity “foundation accounts”, used to fund research.

    The minister revealed some university authorities (not ASUU) had lodged a similar complaint; and that the government was looking into modalities to come to some mutually acceptable accommodation to all parties.

    That is good news. But the government must expedite the process. In doing so, however, it should consult wide with the critical stakeholders, so that, at the end of the day, every party would buy into the agreed compromise. That should foster industrial peace in the education sector.

    Again, the bit on research is key. If Nigerian universities are not competing with the rest of the world for now, it is simply because they are not doing enough research — a core function of the academia the world over; and the theoretical blueprint of knowledge-led societal development.

    That there is hardly enough funds for research is bad enough. But that even the scarce grants available are trapped by TSA should be discouraged and discountenanced. It is good the government is seriously engaging this problem.  But again, promptness is key.

    Still, nothing should be construed as pushing to take the universities from the TSA framework. That approach would be defeatist.

    The reason is simple. TSA became necessary, in the first instance, because of crippling corruption in the system. Nigerian universities are not exempt from that system. Instead, they are an integral part of it.

    Corruption has crippled university operations over the years, including the administration of research grants. For the sake of accountability, therefore, TSA would benefit the university system, as much as it would benefit the rest of the economy. With more structural transparency, research funds would be more secure in the long run; and the universities — and the country — would be the better for it.

    That is why the Nigerian university community must take a holistic view of the present corruption challenge, and buy into being part of the vanguard for solution.

    That would be smart and strategic thinking — after all, universities are derelict today, simply because of past abuses. So, if the universities today vote, to fix the porous system, they would only be building better and sounder future Nigerian universities.

    That is the logical way to look at the TSA challenge; not to, because of an initial glitch, hurriedly call for exemption. Any trade group, claiming some especial damage as ASUU now does, can do that.

    But that would be running away from the problem — and running away does not get a problem solved.

  • Foundation rewards research grant winner

    The Prof Ayo Florence Ogunye Trust Fund University of Lagos (PAFOTFUL) has given N1 million to the first recipient of its research grant award competition.

    Winner of the grant, Mr Olawale Olanipekun said at the award held in the UNILAG Senate chamber that he would use the prize to finance his research on “Modeling the fate of multi-component contaminant in porous media”.

    He said: “One of the major challenges being faced by the people of the Niger Delta is that of polluted soil from crude oil. So I am working on using a method different from the one used by previous researchers to restore the soil. People have been considering crude oil as if it is a single contaminant, but in the pollution, there are multiple hydrocarbons, like polyaromatic and alyphatic hydrocarbons in the environment. So, I am approaching it from the angle of trying to cleanse the soil of the hydrocarbons, rather than digging up the soil and replacing it with another, where the contaminants, which have already adapted to the environment, can possibly grow back.”

    Olanipekun, who has taught in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the institution for the past five years, believes that it is better to use a system called bio-immigration where the organisms in the same polluted environments are used to cleanse the soil.

    The Director of the office of Advancement, Mrs Ibironke Salam, explained that the trust fund decided to award scholarship when it was unable to raise its target of N500 million for a professorial chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Since inception in 1990, it has raised N55, 934, 115.

    She said the research grant competition was keenly contested by 10 applicants from various higher institutions in the country, from which three finalists were selected and Olanipekun emerged winner.

    The Vice Chancellor, Prof Rahamon Bello, who is Olanipekun’s PhD supervisor, said UNILAG believes that research efforts would take care of the institution’s and the country’s needs.

    He expressed gratitude to the donor of the foundation, Prof Ayo Ogunye for his selflessness in establishing the professorial chair through PAFOTFUL due to his love for the institution.