The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
plans to establish a biotechnology lab in
Nigeria which will help improve the
countries biotechnology capacity for crop. improvement. This was revealed by Professor Ivan Ingelbrecht of Ghent
University, Belgium, who visited the country on behalf of the Gates.

Foundation met with the Nigerian
Minister of Science and Technology,
Professor Ita Okon Bassey Ewa.
“My mission in Nigeria as mandated by
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to
see the possibilities of empowering
Nigeria:. the National Systems,Programmes in Nigeria, to have the
capacity to use biotechnology laboratory
technologies for crop improvement,” he
said.

According to him, “the idea is to
empower national programmes in Africa,
and Nigeria specifically to train people
on how to use facilities, so that they can
produce these crops independently and
Nigerians can have the capacity to decide on how to use these technologies in consideration of National
regulatory system.”

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