Katsina varsity wins N35.1m TETFund’s research grant

The Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA) in Katsina State has won N35.1 million research grant from the 2021 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).

The FUDMA spokesperson, Habibu Umar-Amin, who disclosed this via a statement issued on Wednesday, said the intervention was for the TETFund’s National Research Fund (NRF).

He said the fund would be used for research titled, ‘Automated Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Aid’ (ARTPA), a Cloud-Based Radio Biologically Optimised Treatment Planning Assistant with Real-Time Support for Sub-Saharan Africa’, in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

“The University’s Director, Research and Development, Dr. Muhammad Ghazali Garba, who announced the development, said the funds shall be judiciously utilized,” Umar-Amin noted.

Reacting to the development, the FUDMA Vice Chancellor, Prof. Armaya’u Hamisu-Bichi, assured of his determination to continue to strengthen the university to attract more grants that will boost staff and students’ capacities in teaching, research, and learning.

He commended the university’s Directorate for Research and Development for a job well done in not only securing the grant but also putting the name of the university in a global perspective which is in line with its vision and mission.

Umar-Amin stated that the university recently won another N32 million research grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF), Pretoria, South Africa, saying the fund is being used for research titled, ‘Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability Collaborative Research Action’.

“NRF is an agency of the South African Government, created to contribute to national development by supporting, promoting and advancing research and human capacity development through funding and partnerships for the advancement of knowledge, innovation development in all fields,” he said.

According to him, the Vice-Chancellor also congratulated two lecturers of the university, Ibrahim Danladi Sule and Hassan Abdulkadir, on their successful completion of Ph.D and Master Degree programmes, respectively, in different fields from two separate universities.

He revealed that Sule bagged a Ph.D in Natural Resources Management and Climate Change from Bayero University Kano (BUK), while Abdulkadir completed his M.Ed in Educational Management, from Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU), Katsina.

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