National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure
(NASENI), is to partner Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on
technology transfer.
Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Dr.
Mohammed Haruna, said the partnership would avail NASENI the opportunity
to ride on the shoulders of a technologically advanced economy like
Japan to transform Nigeria’s technology, using local industrial tools
produced and manufactured by the Agency.
Haruna stated this when the leader of JICA delegation to Nigeria,
Yoshiyuki Choso, paid a visit to the headquarters of NASENI in Abuja.
The Executive Vice Chairman represented by the Director of
Engineering Infrastructure, Dr. Mohammed Dauda, said JICA had found a
good partner in NASENI.
Therefore, he urged the JICA delegation to use the Agency as a
platform to collaborate with Nigerian Government in the area of
technology transfer.
“What we have been craving for is to have an organisation that will
help in utilising the dynamic, creative college of engineers that we
have in NASENI because we want to develop the expertise that exists
here,” he stated.
He added that the industrialisation of Nigeria’s economy remains the
cardinal mandate of NASENI, adding that the Agency has other broad area
of mandates which cover all aspects of science, engineering disciplines
and all sectors of the socio-economic life of the Nigerian society.
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