. BUK, FUTO benefit
BY: Sandra Ani
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Wednesday afternoon endowed two professorial chairs in ICT focused and telecoms related research at Bayero University Kano (BUK) and the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO).
The value of each endowment for the 2019-2020 academic session is Twenty Million Naira.
The NCC affirmed that this unprecedented development in the history of telecommunication in Africa is informed by the need to establish concrete linkages and deepen the relationship between the telecom industry and the academia in Nigeria; and to provide the missing integration and collaborative partnership required to galvanise qualitative research in telecommunications in Nigeria.
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, while instituting the professorial chairs at the Head Office of NCC today, urged the two beneficiary institutions to deploy the best of their human and material resources capable of delivering the objectives of this initiative in order to encourage NCC to extend the gesture to more institutions in the future.
The Vice Chancellors of the two institutions, Professors Yahuza Bello and Francis Eze expressed gratitude to NCC and assured the Commission that the seminal intervention would receive every attention it deserves in order to encourage NCC to extend such collaboration and partnership to other universities and institutions in the future.
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L-r: Head of Finance NCC, Felix Adeoye Commission Secretary, NCC, Yakubu Gontor; Vice Chancellor Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Prof. Eze Francis; Director Research and Development, NCC, Ephraim Nwokonneya, Executive Secretary National University Commission NUC, Prof Abubakar Rasheed; Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta; Vice Chancellor Bayero University Kano, Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello; Registrar Bayero University Kano, Binta Mohammed; Registrar Federal University of Technology Owerri, John Nnabuihe, during the signing of the MoU for the endowment of professorial Chairs at Bayero University, Kano and federal university of technology Owerri, on Wednesday 22nd Mary 2019 at the Conference hall of NCC Abuja.