The Federal University,
\nLafia, Nasarawa State, was\u00a0 in Abuja formally connected to the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN).
\nThe Tide source reports that NgREN is the national research network for Nigeria, established to provide connectivity infrastructure and service layers for innovation in teaching and research in Nigeria.
\nIt is aimed at harmonising knowledge within the tertiary sector, to drive productive research, collaboration and knowledge dissemination for the development of Nigeria and mankind.
\nNgREN, which is domiciled at the National Universities Commission (NUC), has a conference room equipped with video conferencing facilities able to communicate with other video conference centres in all member institutions.
\nSpeaking at the event, Prof. Julius Okojie, the NUC Executive Secretary, said it was worth celebrating as NgREN had FULafia the opportunity to improve research and learning.
\n\u201cIt will be recalled that on the 8th July, 2014, the first phase of the NgREN was commissioned, starting with 27 older federal universities.
\n\u201cThis is the first step towards connecting with the over one million students and staff in these other institutions.
\n\u201cIn addition to bandwidth provision, FULafia now has access to high definition tele-presence capabilities for real time collaboration.\u2019\u2019
\nOkojie said that FULafia was the first among the new universities to get connected to NgREN.
\nAccording to him, any university that is unable to participate in the NgREN initiative, will lose out because government has provided the foundation for the network.
\nThe NUC boss said that the Federal Government would fund the NgREN\u2019s expansion under the second phase.
\n\u201cHowever, annual subscriptions to enable institutions to tap into these huge benefits will be the responsibility of each institution.
\n\u201cI, therefore, urge all the remaining institutions \u2014 public and private \u2014 as a matter of urgency, to pay up their subscriptions to guarantee the attainment of the NgREN\u2019s objectives,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nResponding, FULafia\u2019s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ekanem Braide, who spoke from Lafia via video-conferencing provided by NgREN, said that the connection was a huge boost to teaching and research in the institution.
\nAccording to her, teaching and learning in FULafia is done through Information Communication Technology (ICT) as provided by the NGREN platform.
\n\u201cWith NGREN, lectures are uploaded on the learning platform before the commencement of each semester.
\n\u201cEach classroom has a learning management system manned by an ICT staff.
\n\u201cSale of handout is therefore, not a lucrative venture anymore; NGREN makes it possible for us to enforce a total ban on the sale of handout,\u2019\u2019 she said.
\nShe further said that\u00a0 TETFund had approved the use of a part of its allocation for the purpose of connecting to NGREN.
\nThe Tide further reports that the official inauguration of FULafia\u2019s NGREN platform was done via video conferencing by Haji Binta Dauda, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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