Yaba College Of Technology Researchers Win Ford Foundation’s $100,000 Grant

The Yaba College of Technology in Lagos State has described as laudable, winning of 100,000 US Dollars Ford Foundation grant by three of its researchers/staff members.

Deputy Registrar of the college, Joe Ejiofor, told journalists in Lagos that the fund would further support efforts to develop the institution.

Ejiofor listed the three researchers who jointly wrote a proposal that won the grant to include Dr Adeleke Abiodun of the Department of Chemical Science and Dr Funmilayo Doherty of the Department of Biological Science and Dr Odun Orimolade  of the Department of Fine Arts, according to Ejiofor.

According to the deputy registrar, who is also the institution’s Public Relations Officer, the research team also won a similar grant two years ago.

The first grant they won in 2019 was used to develop an institutional policy on sexual harassment and gender-based policy, as well as set up a museum for the college.

He said there is a proposal to use the second grant for the Yaba Art Museum.

Ejiofor said that the museum would host an archive presentation of “Living Blue” on the life and work of Chief Nike Okundaye, who was committed to youth development and gender advocacy.

It will also accommodate Yaba Cartoon Nation which will present archives of cartooning as a tool for social justice advocacy in Yaba alumni pursuits.