Musa Rhapsodi Affos, Jalingo



Taraba State University, Jalingo has been awarded ₦9,911,811.393 research grant by The Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC).

This was contained in a publication in the official website of commission. According to NCC, Taraba State University, Jalingo will focused on ‘5G Deployment in Nigeria’ topic, ‘Design and Fabrication of Metamaterial Inspired UWB/ MIMO Antenna for 5G sub 6GHz Applications’, and was awarded ₦9,911,811.393.


The university is among the five tertiary institutions selected for the research grant, it further revealed that the selection was based on the best response to its request for proposal published on national dailies and on its website in July 2020.


The Commission awarded fifty-four million, seven hundred and five thousand, six hundred and thirty two Naira, fourteen kobo (₦54,705,632.14) to the selected institutions.

According to the announcement on its website, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, focused on ‘Innovative Clean Energy Technology’, with the research topic, ‘Development of all-weather solar system for energy optimization in a mobile communication based station’ and was awarded ₦10,147,000.002.

Also, the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife ‘IOT Low Power Wide Area Network’, topic, ‘Weather WAN: A Wide Area Network of Low-Cost IoT – Compliant Weather Stations’ and received ₦11,686.500.004.


Similarly, the Gombe State University, Gombe focused on ‘Monitoring and Localization of Drones’, with the research topic: ‘Intelligent and Autonomous Multi-UAVs (Multiple Drones) Swarm Monitoring for Effective Surveillance and Situation Awareness in the Nigerian Telecommunication Industry’ and was awarded ₦11,668,758.755

Lastly, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna researched on ‘Advanced method of Quality of Service(QoS) Quality of Experienced Management and Test Mechanism’, while the topic is ‘Development of Intelligent Cognitive Smart Engine for Quality of Service Management in 5G Network’, and was awarded ₦11,291,562.00.