ATBU Staff Win 59 TetFUND IBR Grants

Staff of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi have won 59 TETFund Institutional Based Research Grant amounting to the sum of N108 Million  this year, myschoolnews Report.

Already, certificates of award were presented to the receipients of the Awards by the University's Director of Research, Innovation and Development, Professor Fatima Sawa, in a very brief ceremony at the University on the 16th of this month.

The University's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Muhammad Ahmad AbdulAzeez was represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academics, Prof. Sani Usman Kunya, who commended the Tertiary Education Trust Fund for providing the platform for improving research and development in the Nigerian Tertiary Insitutions.

He remarked that ATBU Bauchi staff have attained the highest status in the area of research and development among their peers in the Nigerian University system.  He noted  that University system is established on tripod of teaching, research and community service to which TETFund has done well in supporting research and staff development in the Nigerian Tertiary Institutions.

The Vice-Chancellor described the Director of Research Innovation and Development of the university, Prof. Fatima Sawa, as hard working and dedicated, who, within a period of three years, has successfully organised four training workshops on grants-winning proposals writing as well as on research commercialization and acceleration of ideas and innovation. 

While addressing the receipients, Prof. Fatima Sawa said the University won nine Institutional Based Research fund of the TETFund last year and fifty-nine this year, which she said was a tremendous leap in the area of research in the University. She advised them to work as a team and never relent in the pursuit of excellence.

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Zailani Bappa,

Director, 

Directorate of information and public relations, ATBU.