Prof Iwu, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , is Professor of Pharmacognosy, who set up the Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme, started a research 10 years ago after traditional medicine practitioners led researchers were led to the Bitter Kola plant. The traditional healers said they have used the plant for the treatment of infectious diseases for centuries.
Fashola who spoke at the presentation of research grants, drawn in cheques to seven tertiary institutions, both Federal and States, at the Government House, Alausa, Ikeja, had constituted a 10-man Lagos State Research and Development Council which was inaugurated on November 21, 2012.
His words: “I was curious about what Professor Maurice Iwu was doing with elections if he was already researching on how Bitter Kola can cure some diseases.
“He should come back and do his work because really this is his core competence and if he is listening to me, I am challenging him that he will be able to reopen the frontiers of that research and present it, this organization will fund it.”
A total research grant of N142, 239, 000 was approved for the state. N71, 119, 500 which is 50 percent of the total sum was presented to seven beneficiaries.
The grants were to be expended in10 sectors; three in agriculture, three in education, six in environmental science one in finance, eight in health, one in water, one information communication technology, one in manufacturing, three in power and energy and three in media creative art.
Among the institutions who received the 31 research projects grants were; University of Lagos, UNILAG, Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, Caleb University, Pan African University and Yaba College of Technology.
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