IT was unarguably a statement of satisfaction from Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, of the new kick that Nigerian universities were getting towards scaling up research and development as a way of actualising the country’s development needs.
Remarkably, the concept easily found favour with the TETFUND board led by Alhaji Kashim Imam who may have also brought his legendary savvy in the political arena to provide the needed prop for the TETFUND management to push through with the initiatives. While with that feat TETFund may have been the highest single provider of COVID-19 test centres in Nigeria, the clincher in the effort of the Fund is the fact that it is going beyond testing to funding research on COVID-19.
As the minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, said at the signing of the agreement Nigeria has been greatly disadvantaged in not mobilising enough of her human intelligence.
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