Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), in Niger state’s effort towards embarking on research activities has received a boost as the institution was recently announced as winner of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) grant of Canada.
IBBUL will receive the sum of 450, 000 US dollars as the prize of the grant.
The university’s proposal on “Knowledge and Innovation Exchange using Connected Learning Initiative for capacity building of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers and students in Nigerian schools”, was adjudged the most successful, and therefore awarded the grant.
This was contained in the ‘letter of approval of the grant’ which was transmitted to the school management, through the office of the director, Centre for Applied Sciences and Technology Research (CASTER).
According to the letter, the project has the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, as the lead partner, with IBBUL and Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan, Open University of Tanzania and UNESCO office of Bangladesh, in the partnership.
The director of CASTER, Professor Nuhu Obaje, a renowned scholar in Geosciences, is IBBUL’s research team leader and principal investigator.
Accordingly, the university research team has been invited for a meeting of consortium by the principal partner, TISS, to be held in Mumbai, India, by March 2020.
At the meeting, the team will work out strategies for implementation of the respective site projects.
Vice chancellor, Professor Abu Kasimu Adamu, congratulated the institution’s research team for the enviable and groundbreaking feat.
The VC also reaffirmed his administration’s determination to support every research efforts geared towards enhancing the development of the society and humanity in general.
