The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund is considering repealing the laws creating the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE.
Chairman of the Committee, Senator Muntari Dandutse, disclosed this when he led members of the committee on an oversight visit to the board’s office in Abuja on Thursday.
Dandutse acknowledged the board’s significance to Nigeria’s technological advancement and stated that the Senate would investigate revising the antiquated legislation pertaining to NBTE.
As to his statement, “We will consider removing the laws that will enable them to achieve the goals of innovation in a contemporary setting.”
We’re going to investigate and resolve the issues. We’d like to work together. Young Nigerians to be self employed.
“We can only have technical students who can achieve a very robust innovation in making Nigeria great in terms of engineering through these polytechnics.”
According to Prof. Idris Bugaje, Executive Secretary of NBTE, the board was founded in 1977 and oversees, accredits, and regulates more than 700 institutions, including 156 polytechnics and 145 monotechnics.
The only Nigerian state without a federal polytechnic is Sokoto. We are grateful that a federal polytechnic would be established in Sokoto as well.
Our proposal is for FCT to establish a federal polytechnic in Gwarinpa. The minister has already received a draft, which will shortly be sent to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and then the Senate, he said.
