The Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETfund), Abuja, hosted a Research for Impact Creative Writing Award. The Polytechnic, Ibadan (TPI) excelled as a team, winning two of the three awards during the research programme.
The Polytechnic, Ibadan’s five-man team, which is primarily composed of lecturers from several departments, won the research competition that included four other universities.
Federal University Owerri, Federal Polytechnic, Kaura-Namoda, University of Delta, Agbor (Delta State), and University of Abuja are the other institutions.
The team leader, Dr. Kola Lawal, the head of the recently formed department of Tourism and Hospitality, remarked that the research programme lasted for two weeks in Abuja while presenting the awards to Prof. Kazeem Adebiyi, the Rector of Polytechnic Ibadan.
According to him, the main goal of the initiative’s research project was to make research conducted at different national institutions useful for business purposes.
Lawal continued by saying that while a number of national concerns were mentioned, everyone involved narrowed them to just one, namely insecurity.
According to him, the TPI team presented a study prototype on travel guides, which, if completed, may offer solutions to the nation’s security issues.
He said the team came up with how to secure patency for research works in the various tertiary institutions in the country basically for commercial purposes.
He claimed that all of the teams involved in the programme were required to use their staff and students to create creative teams within their respective institutions.
Adebiyi gave the team praise for the honour they had brought to the university.
He gave the team his word that the Office of the Rector will set up an innovative and creative section to foster and support innovation within the institution.