The agency said the funds will bolster the conduct of cutting-edge researches in tertiary institutions.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, who disclosed this while declaring open a four-Day Meeting of TETFund Research and Development Standing Committee (RDSC) yesterday, said the breakthrough comes two years after the Board of Trustees granted the approval for private institutions to draw from the funds.
Bogoro said since the inauguration of the TETFund RDSC on September 24, 2020, the committee has gone far in implementing President Muhammadu Buhariâs directive to support government initiatives of responding to the threat of COVID-19 through ground-breaking research on Phyto-medical drugs, prophylactics and vaccines.