Research
Seven centres of excellence and four institutes work on the problems this region actually has — energy and the environment of the Delta, public health through a teaching hospital that serves several states, and the food systems the country eats from.
Published progress
What the university has said publicly about how the work is going.
Food systems and agriculture
Where cassava is lost between the farm and the market
A season of weighing the same crop at four points on its way to a Benin City market, and the one stage that accounts for most of what never arrives.
31 Jul 2026
Public health and UBTHSecond quarter, 2026
Lassa fever surveillance across three states
What a shared case definition and a single reporting line did to the time between a patient presenting and a laboratory confirming.
18 Jul 2026
Energy and the DeltaFirst half, 2025/2026
Grid-scale solar on Delta soils: first-year findings
Twelve months of output data from the Ugbowo array, and what humidity and harmattan dust actually cost a panel in this part of the country.
26 Jun 2026
Where the work is
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Energy and the Delta
Petroleum engineering, environmental remediation, and the economics of what happens to a region after the oil.
Public health and UBTH
Clinical research through the teaching hospital, from tropical disease to surgical training that keeps specialists in the country.
Food systems and agriculture
Crop science, storage and the supply chains between a Nigerian farm and a Nigerian table.