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April 30, 2019
National Secretary-General, AcademicStaff Union of Research Institutions, Theophilus Ndabuaku, has commended theFederal Government for establishing the National Research Organisation Councilto re-position research in Nigeria.
Ndabuaku gave the commendation onTuesday, in Abuja, during a rally organised by the Union to appreciate governmentfor setting up the council.
Ndabuaku described as unacceptablethe dependence of institutional research on budgetary allocation, which wasmost times inadequate and unable to achieve any meaningful result.
He noted that most researcherspersonally funded their research work because if they failed to do so, they wouldnot be promoted or obtain higher degrees.He said though Nigeria had 150 researchinstitutions, centres and allied institutions, not much was being done toharness the human, material and natural resources to fund research and bringabout development.