The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), has been given a
grant of $6 million to execute a World Bank project under the aegis of
Africa Centre for Excellence, funded by the World Bank.
Vice
Chancellor of the institution, Professor Francis Ezeh, who disclosed
this to newsmen shortly after an award presented to him by the National
Association of the Nigeria Students (NANS) Zone B, as the
best-performing Vice Chancellor of the zone 2018- 2019, said that FUTO
was rewarded with the said sum after ranking 10th among the 132
universities that contested in the World Bank-organised research
competition.
He explained that the money was renewable within a period of four years.
Another
lecturer from FUTO, Bony Oba, the VC said, also won a national award,
earning the sum of N70 million as one of the best researchers.
The
VC, promised to make good use of the money by organising a series of
training programmes for the institution’s lecturers and students.
Earlier,
NANS Zone B Coordinator, Godson Okereke, maintained that the award was
conferred on the FUTO VC for his infrastructural development and
academic excellence in the school.
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