NASENI Seeks NGF’s Support to Industrialise Nigeria 

Emma Okonji

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), has solicited the support of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) in funding the agency to realise its mandate of processing all the capital goods that will create job opportunities and guarantee Nigeria’s industrial development. 

The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Dr. Bashir Gwandu, stated this while receiving the Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, during a courtesy visit to the agency’s headquarters in Abuja recently.

According to Gwandu, NASENI as an Agency has a lot to offer to the country and that is why there is need for the Governors Forum to support the agency to achieve its mandate of ensuring that Nigeria manufactures industrial capital goods that will put an end the country’s import dependence.

The NASENI EVC expressed appreciation to the governor of Osun State for finding time to visit the agency while remarking that Governor Adeleke was the first state chief executive to visit him since he resumed office as EVC/CEO of NASENI in May, 2023.

Gwandu thanked the governor for the allocation of land and issuance of certificate of occupancy for NASENI Institute in Osun State free of charge.

He said as part of vision for NASENI he has since assumption of duty as chief executive, began a tour of the institutes under NASENI to see for himself what the agency has and to find out where there is need to change how things were done in the past. 

He said his vision for NASENI was to introduce new strategies of how the agency would work or to see its products in the market, not only competing in Nigeria but with technology products from other countries across the world. 

On his part, Governor Adeleke commended the EVC of NASENI for training youths in the on-going Skill Acquisition Training and Youth Empowerment Programme, embarked upon by NASENI, even as the governor requested the agency’s management to fast-track the take-off of the proposed Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Development Institute (AMEDI) approved to be sited in Osun State by the federal government.