The director, planning, research and statistics (PRS) of the Nigerian Content Development and Management Board [NCDMB], Mr. Patrick Daziba Obah, has said that the recently concluded research and development round-table hosted by the Board was to assess the level of the organisation’s R&D activities.
He pointed that the event, of which participants were drawn from various sectors of the engineering and oil and gas sector, enabled the Board to analyze current energy trends, and identify what could be done to improve the landscape.
Obah also said the round-table considered funding and how well NCDMB is doing; the challenges and steps needed to mitigate them. “We also looked at infrastructural development, how that plays out in the R&D landscape,” he said
The director stressed that a key outcome of the round-table was the need for researchers to develop competencies in writing viable R&D proposals.
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“The researcher should be able to sell his or her idea in such a manner that any evaluator would understand the basics of the research proposal,” he said, affirming the Board’s willingness to partner other organizations to promote research and development.
He informed that currently, the Board is collaborating with several ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and even private sector groups.
The partnerships, he emphasized, were contributory to the impressive strides recorded in Nigerian content development space.
In his presentation, the general manager, research, statistics and development, Mr. Abdulmalik Halilu, gave details of the Board’s sponsored centers of excellence (CoE).
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According to him, at the Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUT Minna) the board has a center of excellence for research and technology development studies.
The Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), he said, is working on geological & geophysical studies. Other CoEs are Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, with interests in engineering services studies.
The Federal University of Technology Owerri, has a focus on local raw material substitution studies, and lastly Modibo Adama University of Technology, which has focus on Safety & environmental studies
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