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The World Bank has released N1.4 billion to 10 Nigerian universities which were recently listed among the African Centres for Excellence (ACE).
According to a Punch report, the sum is the first tranche of disbursement deployed for ACE projects with the aim of boosting Nigerian universities' global ranking in the fields of agriculture, health, as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Each benefiting universities is assigned an ACE focus projects: Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, as Centre for Agricultural Development and Sustainable Environment; Bayero University, Kano, as Centre for Dryland Agriculture; Benue State University as Centre for Food Technology and Research, Redeemer’s University as Centre for Genomics of Infectious Diseases; University of Jos as Centre for Phytomedicine Research and Development; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, as centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology; University of Beninwas designated as a centre for Reproductive Health and Innovation; African University of Science and Technology, Centre for Materials;University of Port Harcourt, Centre for Oil Field Chemicals and Obafemi Awolowo University, as Centre for Science, Technology and Knowledge.
Speaking in Abuja on Monday at an ACE project post-effectiveness workshop held on Monday, the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Julius Okojie, said the ACE projects will boost Nigerian universities’' ranking.
“The success of the ACE project holds the prospect of favourable global ranking for Nigerian universities and the nation cannot afford to toy with the opportunity," Okojie said.
“The feat of a Nigerian university which assisted in checking the spread and scourge of the Ebola Virus Disease when it broke out in the country would have ordinarily earned Nigeria a top place among world universities.”
He cautioned the management of the institutions against compromising the scheme's objectives.
ACE is a joint project of the governments of Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Republic of Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo and Senegal.
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