The dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Professor Adekunle Bakare, has identified poor funding and reward system as the bane of scientific research in Nigeria, saying “as long as the support is not there, we can forget about national development.”
The ‘Egbe Omo Ogbomoso Parapo Agbaaye’, in conjunction with a group known as the ‘Concerned Ex-Students of LAUTECH’, has appealed to the Oyo State governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, to rescind the decision to move the Faculty of Agriculture of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso to the Iseyin campus of the institution.