REVEALED: How Poor Funding Hampers Nigerian Research Institutes, Making Them Inefficient In Fight Against Coronavirus –Part One | Sahara Reporters In this six part series, we look at how these institutions have been funded in the last 5 years... READ MORE:
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage countries in the world, several countries through government-funded institutions are working round the clock to contain the spread of the virus. The Civic Media Lab examines the efforts of government institutes and agencies in Nigeria that should be leading the country’s medical research into finding possible solutions to several outbreaks including the current COVID-19.
The institute made no provision for research in 2015 but in the other four years, the CML found 13 research themes and three reoccurring ones. Two of these descriptions that reappeared, had a couple of different research subjects lumped into their description in the two budget cycles they occurred in.
The only capital project provided for by the institute was the repair of staff quarters, admin building and laboratory complex valued at N50m.In the first budgeting year of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, the institute requested for N10.265m to be shared across eight researches. The most expensive study, “National Research on Common Causes of Sudden Death Among Adults in Nigeria” gulped N2.
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