From Abdulfatah Babatunde
National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State have struck a deal to enhance Nigeria’s digital economy footprints, empowering and job creation.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NASENI, Mr Khalil Suleiman Halilu, announced the deal while welcoming participants of the Senior Executive Course (SEC) 46 of NIPSS, visited the agency on Monday in Abuja.
TheNewsZenith reports that the SEC 46 were on a strategic study tour of NASENI.
Halilu expressed happiness that NIPSS identified NASENI as one of the federal government’s agencies, capable of empowering Nigerian youths and create job opportunities.
NASENI, he added, is making the country self-reliant in manufacturing and digital economy.
NASENI boss noted that strengthening the capacity of key stakeholders in Nigeria to access and scale up technologies “is an essential outcome of such cooperations and collaborations that the agency is undertaken.
“This agency must be supported by the relevant offline conditions, such as an enabling policy environment, access to finance, appropriate incentives and innovation capacities.”
Earlier, The Director-General of NIPSS, Prof. Ayo Omotayo, who led the delegation, said the agency could empower Nigerian youths through translation of its innovations into finished products.
This, Omotayo said, would strengthen the collaboration between the two organisations.
According to him, NIPSS has sent various groups of its course participants to different agencies to study how to develop policies for national development.
He added that the Group in NASENI would do a deep study of NASENI on how it can help to create job opportunities for Nigerian youths.
”Nigeria cannot have good manufacturing without infrastructures and NASENI is very important in all the sectors in the country.
”This is so, especially in manufacturing industries.
”We need an agency like NASENI to live up to expectations. We can work together to transfer your innovations to effective job creation and youth empowerment,” NIPSS boss said.
He added that Course 46 participants from would like to know the vision, mission and roles of NASENI.
And how they can be translated to job creation for youths in a digital economy.
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