National mathematical centre seeks TETFund funding support

THE Chairman of Council of the National Mathematical Centre, Professor James Oguntuase, has called on the Federal Government to include NMC as one of the beneficiaries of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) intervention.

He stressed the need for adequate funding of the centre to make it a truly International Centre of excellence in the Mathematical sciences.

He spoke at the sidelines of the 2nd meeting of the 6th Council in Abuja, while also emphasising on the critical place of Mathematical Sciences in the nation’s development.

Oguntuase expressed the conviction that the centre’s academic programmes would be reinvigorated to take its pride of place as an inter-university centre befitting of its status.

He particularly called for the restoration of TETFund funding of the centre’s infrastructure as this will assist in no small way to improve facilities and activities at the centre.

Earlier, Director-General of the centre, Prof Promise Mebine, had stressed the need to declare a national emergency in mathematics as a result of the lack of teachers of the subject at all levels of the education system and its importance in the realisation of the national set goals.

Prof Mebine pointed out that the centre was poised to play a key role in the training and retaining of a critical mass of mathematics teachers to prepare them for the challenge of dealing with the phobia associated with the subject.

The NMC DG called for adequate funding of the centre to help it meet the dreams and aspirations of the founding fathers and as a step towards the development of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the country.

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