April 15,2024
Agency report
The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State will collaborate on enhancing Nigeria’s digital economy footprints, empowering and creating jobs for youths.
This is contained in a press statement issued by Olusegun Ayeoyenikan
NASENI’s Director of Information in Abuja on Monday.
He said Mr.Khalil Halilu, Executive Vice Chairman(EVC) of NASENI disclosed this whien the Senior Executive Course (SEC) 46 of NIPSS visited him during a study tour to the agency on Monday.
According to the statement, the NASENI’s EVC said that strengthening the capacity of key stakeholders in Nigeria to access, adopt and scale up technologies was an essential outcome of such collaboration undertaken by the agency.
He said it “must be supported by the relevant offline conditions, such as an enabling policy environment, access to finance, appropriate incentives and innovation capacities.”
The Director-General of NIPSS, Prof. Ayo Omotayo, who led the delegation, said Nigerian youths could be empowered through translation of NASENI innovations to finished products and to strengthen the collaboration between the two organizations.
According to him, various groups from the institute have been sent to different agencies to study how policies for national development could be developed, adding that the Group in NASENI would do a deep study in NASENI on how the agency would help in creating job opportunities for Nigerian youths using some of its technological innovations.
“Nigeria cannot have good manufacturing without infrastructures and NASENI is very important in all sectors in the country, especially in manufacturing industries.
“We need an agency like NASENI to live up to expectations, we can work together with you to find means of transferring your innovations to effective job creation and youth empowerment,” Omotayo said.
He noted that the Course 46 participants from NIPSS wanted to know the vision, mission and roles of NASENI and how they can be translated to job creation for youths in a digital economy.
