Establishing APCs In Varsities, To Develop Book Industry Locally - TETFund Boss

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By Hussaini Hammangabdo Yola Prof Suleiman Bogoro, Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund says, setting up Academic Publishing Centres (APCs)

Prof Suleiman Bogoro, Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund says, setting up Academic Publishing Centres across Nigerian universities is to provide opportunity for nation’s writters, thinkers and artists to produce books locally to discourage overseas production and demand for foreign currency.

He said the paucity of indegenous authored and produced tertiary level textbooks and related academic publications in the nation’s tertiary instituions is a known fact. The Chairman Technical Advisory Group , Prof Charles Aworh, said 20 books in various disciplines medicine, engineering, agriculture and humanities, eight phD theses from Nigerian universities converted into books were published in 2014 and distributed free to public.

Tukur urged for proper harnessing of resources of the region to turn the region into economic bubbling viable region.

 

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