Use N174.4m Research Fund Judiciously, VC Tells Dons

Vice chancellor of Osun State University, Prof. Ọdunayo Clement Adebooye, has charged scholars who won about N174,456,101.71 awards and grants to use the fund for the purpose the money was awarded.

Adebooye who spoke yesterday at the official presentation of letters of award to the winners of the 2023 TETFund National Research Fund and International Grants at UNIOSUN main campus, Osogbo.

He said the grants are expected to have far reaching implications and contribute to the global body of knowledge.

According to him, the various grants are not just financial support for project execution, they are also investment in the future and potentialities of research as a major driver of knowledge and tool for societal transformation.

The grants are N43.9 million Francophone Cultural Enclave in Anglophone Yorubaland: Migration, Language and Cross-border Trade in Ejigbo, Nigeria won by Dr. Toyese Dahunsi; N30 million on Mitigating Youth Restiveness in Nigeria (MiYouRest) won by Prof. John Agbonifo of the Department of Sociology; N29.8 million on Effects of Government Policies on the Economic Activities and Livelihoods of Women in the Southwestern States of Nigeria won by Dr. Moromoke Raji of the Department of Guidance and Counselling; N29.5 million for the Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Animated-Learning Package for Climate Change Education in Pry Schools won by Dr. Adebola Alaba of the Department Arts and Social Science Education, among others.

The VC noted with delight that in the 2023 grant cycle UNIOSUN leap-frogged to six awards with a total value of over N174,456,101.71 an increase of 48 per cent compared to 2022 when UNIOSUN won just two NRF grants with a total value of N36 million.