The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has instituted and endowed professorial chairs to the tune of N40 million in two more Nigerian universities.
The two universities, the University of Ibadan, Oyo State and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, were endowed with N20 million each over the next two years to embark on massive research to promote innovation to drive the socio-economic development in the country.
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The move was in continuation of NCC’s initiative aimed at strengthening the telecommunications industry to continuously contribute to national development.
“The commission’s engagement with the academia, therefore, is to ensure that there is the application of knowledge generated in the tertiary institutions in the telecommunications industry. The endowment of professorial chairs in universities is one of the initiatives to support the academia in focus research areas in ICT and contribute to the advancements in emerging technologies,” the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC Prof Umar Garba Danbatta was quoted in the statement signed by the commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Ikechukwu Adinde.
The instituting and endowing of professorial chairs in the two premier universities brings to four, the number of tertiary institutions of learning that have benefitted from the NCC’s innovation-driving initiative, having endowed professorial chairs in Bayero University Kano (BUK) and Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) in May.
