From Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
Over the years as a university lecturer with vast experience of teaching and research at the prestigious Usmanu Danfodiyo University, the pursuit of uncommon didactic and transformative knowledge has always been at the forefront of my aspiration. Though I garnered prestigious grants in my field of research and was honoured with the esteemed Fulbright Research scholar award, which avails me the opportunity to delve into the realms of academia in the United States. Such knowledge, through untrammeled struggles and stride, have limited the frontier of morphing it to spawns socio-economic values that are fundamentally indispensable with efforts being injected.
Receiving a pristine transformative knowledge through the Research for Impact initiative has created a renewed hope and aspiration that all the efforts in teaching and practical engagements in my discipline have not disappeared into forlorn hope. This programme has depicted from the title, limited vicissitude of time done justice in transforming my mindset for an aesthetic stride in commanding the inherent commercial values inbuilt in me, towards promotion of individual and humanity’s socio-economic status. The immense effort of R4i has transformed and obliterated my untransformed knowledge to prolific endeavours of converting its economic values.
Albeit, the Research for Impact (R4i) initiative at Innov8 Hub, for two enlightening weeks, was a didactic training that created an idea that radically absolved my thought of overwhelming reliance on monthly stipends. It has positively accelerated my consciousness towards making a better living standard, as well as channeling the course for empowerment of youths as job creators by tapping the enviable advantages and opportunities.
R4i has distilled and redefined my thought and aspiration against the directionless purpose of reading voraciously without engagement; to convert it into an enviable provenance of money-making venture creation. At this juncture, with a high sense of humility and resolution of mind, I say with a high sigh of relief from knowledge acquired from this initiative, thank you all. However, it is splendid and worthy of associating with intelligentsia. I am therefore immensely grateful to the initiators (TETFund and Innov8 Hub, my colleagues and my esteem Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, for the convivial relations I enjoyed during the course of the training programme.