Plans have been advanced for a two-day roundtable on research funding
for research institutions in Nigeria slated for Abuja, between April 17 and 18,
with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha as
special guest, reports ITRealms.
The event to be hosted by the Academic Staff Union of ResearchInstitutions (ASURI), ITRealms
gathered, represents the interest of researchers in Federal mandated Research
Institutes, Agencies and Allied Colleges in Nigeria, in collaboration with
Co-Heritage Hunters Nigeria and TF & Associates as organisers, is a talk
shop aimed at mobilising the nation in support of adequate research funding.
A press statement jointly signed by the secretary general of
ASURI, Dr. Theophilus Ndubuaku, the president of Co-Heritage Hunters Nigeria,
Pastor Bola Oregbemi, and the managing consultant of TF & and Associates,
Mr. Toye Fawole, the event, coming on the heels of the recently-passed National
Research and Innovation Council Bill 2018, will take place at the International
Conference Centre, Abuja, as an appreciation event to celebrate innovativeness
andà beam positive light on the role of research in national development.
With the theme, “Research our Hope,” the two-day event
will feature the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss
Mustapha, as special guest of honour while the minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Alhaji Muhammadu Musa Bello, and the minority whip in the Senate,
Senator Philip Aduda, representing FCT in the Senate, are chief host and
co-host respectively.
The main speaker at the talk shop is eminent scientist and
former vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe,
also a former president of the National Academy of Science (NAS) while the
chairman of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Senator (Prof.)
Robert Ajayi Boroffice, and Senator David Umaru, the chairman of the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters who sponsored the
National Research and Innovation Council Bill 2018, will lead the team of the
60 Senators who co-sponsored the Bill and several other federal lawmakers from
both chambers to the event.
In attendance as well will be the Minister of Science and
Technology, Dr. Ogbonaya Onu; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
Chief Audu Ogbe; and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator (Dr.) Chris
Nwabueze Ngige, and many other Ministers who superintend over federal mandate
research institutes and agencies.
The event is also expected to feature members of the Diplomatic
Corps, Executive Directors and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Research
Institutes, Director-Generals (DGs) of Federal Agencies, Captains of industry,
opinion leaders and the civil society, among others.
The two-day roundtable will feature over 1,000 researchers while
over 100 Nigerian research institutes will showcase their activities at the
adjoining exhibition, alongside other exhibitors from both private and public
sectors.
Nenye Dom/GEE
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