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Senate commends NASENI’s accelerated technology transfer

Senate Committee on NASENI

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The Senate Committee on National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has commended the agency for championing local content development of solar-powered smart irrigation with accelerated technology transfer.

Senate Committee on NASENI

The Chairman, Senate Committee on NASENI, Sen. Ezenwa Onyewuchi, gave the commendation when the committee paid an oversight function visit to the agency’s headquarters on Monday in Abuja.

Other useful products from the agency are tricycles and electric motorbikes.

TheNewsZenith reports that the CEO of NASENI, Mr Khalil Suleiman Halilu conducted the committee round some of the NASENI products and facilities.

Other products inspected include animal feed processing machines, NASENI transformers, electric motorcycles, tricycles and home and irrigation solar systems.

Onyewuchi said the committee was pleased with the agency’s level of progress. He assured NASENI of the support of the National Assembly for it to drive the vision of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“I want to also thank you for making Nigeria go green, moving from fuel to non-fossil products, it is quite commendable.

“We are quite pleased and we will encourage them to do more,” the chairman said.

NASENI boss, Halilu said some of the agency’s products would be ready in the second quarter of this year.

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He hinted that NASENI would establish a Technology Transfer Hub to bring eco-friendly technologies closer to people.

“We will also make it affordable both on short and long term basis.

“By the first quarter of this year, they will be seeing NASENI products. Today, you have witnessed three products.

“The solar irrigation system with completely solar and batteries and the second product is our electronic motorcycle and tricycle (Keke).

“And the last one is the solar home system where you can power your entire house off-grid.  

You will soon start seeing NASENI branded products in the country and, if you are doing commercially viable products, they have to be affordable to the common man.

“Very soon, you will start seeing them in the market,” Halilu said.

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