The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said its new multidisciplinary research laboratories would enable researchers to conduct all types of research locally, eliminating the need to send samples abroad for analysis.
 
It said that six such laboratories are being established countrywide. 
 
The Executive Secretary of the Fund, Sunny Echono, stated this yesterday in Abuja while receiving the leadership of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), led by its President, Arc. Mobolaji Adeniyi. 
 
He said while four of these state-of-the-art facilities are currently under construction in Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja and Lagos, two more will commence before the end of the year. 
 
Echono, who was the 28th President of the Institute, also promised to mobilise friends of the agency for the furnishing of the Institute’s Resource and Exhibition Centre, currently under construction, as requested by the President. 
 
The TETFund’s boss also endowed a yearly prize at the Institute’s Architecture Annual Awards, sponsorship of the publication of its journal, among others. 

He revealed that the agency would soon commission iconic projects across the country, adding that four of these projects would be unveiled in Kano and Osun states before the end of the month. 
 
He said: “The biggest observation that was made when I came in here is the fact that we were dotting our campuses with all sorts of blocks, and we’re now transiting to iconic buildings.