News Story by OCHEJA MARIA.

Headline: President Goodluck Visits Covenant University over Technology.

 Beat: Research and Development Centre

 Technological advancementsin the country have in recent times taken its toll and no different has the story been in the ICT driven Covenant University at Otta in Ogun State as there have been records of incessant increase in imaginative inventions.

In DLAMS interview with a Professor in medicinal and organic chemistry and Director of Research and Development Centre, Professor Echeme John Bull, he says that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan would be coming to the University to commission some products that have been patented by the university. 

In this regard, the Professor acclaimed that the Chancellor had earlier advised that ideas for inventions should not be isolated in the sense that the ideas should not only be from the professors’ arm, but can also come from students whose ideas would be expanded and also worked on for patenting and commission. 

The recent inventions that were out listed by the professor includes: The 500 KVA fuel less generator, poca tea made from paw-paw, granular rice and some other inventions that the professor had earlier reserved them as unmentioned. More so, the Director highlighted the importance of these inventions in relation to our Nigerian society today as the level power outage continues to eat deep into the society, he says that this inventions would aid developments in the country.

For the basis of financing on this platform, the Director addressed the issue of grants on this platform from external sources although it had earlier been stated that the institution was in no form of partnership with external agencies but rather involved in research collaborations where the tests or inventions were still check proven by Scientists, engineers and of course professors in countries like China, Germany, India and the United States.

More innovations had been promised to come to place as the developments keep blooming.