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December 18, 2019
The Federal Government has approved twenty-five millionnaira grant to five research institutions for their contribution to nationaldevelopment.
The Institutions include: the Nigerian Academy of Science,the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, the Nigerian Academy of Letters, theNigerian Academy of Education and the Nigerian Academy of Social Science.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu whilespeaking at the event, urged the institutes to work in synergy and apply theirknowledge to solve the nation’s numerous challenges. He listed some challengesas corruption, insecurity and economy.
He described the institutes as reservoirs of knowledge,which could be of great benefit to the nation in its  bid to achievegreatness.
Earlier, the President of the Nigerian Academy ofEngineering, Fola Lasisi, while speaking on behalf of the recipients, expressedgratitude to the ministry for blazing the trail in the search forknowledge-driven technology development in the country and assured on behalf ofthe other academies to put judicious use the grants awarded to them.