The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) is seeking partnership with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on technology transfer to deepen economic growth and technological advancement in the country. Mohammed Sani Haruna, director general of NASENI, said the project would avail NASENI the opportunity to ride on the shoulders of a technologically advanced economy like that of Japan to transform Nigeria’s technology using local industrial tools produced and manufactured by the agency. Haruna disclosed this on Monday when the leader of JICA delegation to Nigeria, Yoshiyuki Choso, visited the agency in Abuja.
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Represented by the director of engineering infrastructure, Mohammed Dauda, in his presentation of NASENI achievements and interventions, Haruna noted that JICA had found a good partner in NASENI and therefore urged the organisation to use the agency as a platform for collaboration with Nigerian government in the area of technology transfer and development in the country. “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. Haruna also noted that NASENI’s big vision is the industrialisation of Nigeria’s economy, stating that the agency also has broad area of mandates, which covers all aspects of science, engineering disciplines and all sectors of the socio-economic life of the Nigerian society as all the institutes of the agency have different mandates to bring about technological advancement of the nation.
He added that with the consistent support of the Federal Government, the agency is being positioned strategically in the relationship between JICA and the National Automotive Council (NAC), NASENI serving locally as hub for automotive spare parts development.
