Convocation Ceremony for the 2016/2017 and 2018/2019 academic sessions of the University of Port Harcourt .
“This means that universities must make themselves relevant to the private sector through research to attract funding from the sector. According to him, funds had been released for the building of new structures, purchase of equipment as well as funding of high impact researches. Lale said that since he took office in 2015, several programmes had been introduced with the focus of making UNIPORT a world class university in academics, research and development.
The vice chancellor further said that that research and development had been accelerated under his watch resulting in several breakthroughs that earned UNIPORT local and international recognitions. On his part, the Chancellor of UNIPORT, retired Gen. Muhammadu Bashar, decried the encroachment into land and assets belonging to the university allegedly by the host communities.
vanguardngr Good move. Our President should lift the ban on lecturers employment in Federal Universities to make real issue-based researches.