The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund is set to repeal the Act establishing the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE.
This was contained in a statement by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Muntari Dandutse. The Chairman made the disclosure when he led members of the Committee on an oversight visit to the NBTE’s office in Abuja on Thursday.
Dandutse noted that the importance of the Board to the technological development of Nigeria, notwithstanding, the Senate would look into amending the obsolete laws governing NBTE.
He said, “We will look at repealing the laws that will make them realize the objectives of innovation in a modern set up.
“We are going to look into the challenges and address them and we want to partner with you. We need to address young Nigerians to be self employed.
“It’s only through these polytechnics we can have technical students. Who can achieve a very robust innovation in making Nigeria great in terms of engineering.”
Responding, the Executive Secretary of NBTE, Prof Idris Bugaje, stated that the Board was established in 1977. He noted that the Board supervises, accredits and regulates over 700 institutions, 156 polytechnics and 145 monotechnics across the country.
According to Bugaje, “Sokoto is the only State in Nigeria without a Federal Polytechnic. We appreciate it so that Sokoto will also have a Federal Polytechnic.
“We are proposing that FCT has a Federal Polytechnic in Gwarinpa. A draft has already been given to the Minister. And it will soon go to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, and from there to the Senate,” he stated.
source: Daily Post
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