Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds 3 research projects in Kebbi varsity

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had committed $83.5 million in grants to combat diseases across the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in its medical related research advancement drive in Nigeria, has expended one million dollars on research projects in one of the tertiary institutions in the Northern part of the country.

In a statement by Prof. Bello Malami, the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, he noted that Foundation has funded three research projects initiated by the university.

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Malami said that the Foundation had immensely assisted the university in its research projects and staff capacity building which had improved the teaching and learning environment. He stated this during the inauguration of a Biotechnology Laboratory and Screen House funded by the organisation.

“Our staff wrote proposals which were accepted by the Foundation; this university has three projects sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance learning.”

It would be recalled that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced on the eve of the White House Summit on Malaria, the commitment of $83.5 million in grants to combat diseases across the world.

The Team Leader of West Africa Virus Epidemiology (WAVE), Dr Ibrahim Mohammed, stated one of the projects funded by the grant is aimed at building capacity for the control of cassava virus in the country.

“Aside from the control of cassava virus in northern Nigeria, another research focused on the control of Yambedna virus, with another centred on controlling viruses in some root and tuber crops,” he said.