Senate to repeal NBTE Act

The Senate Committee connected Tertiary Institutions and TETFund is considering repealing the enactment establishing the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE.

Chairman of the Committee, Senator Muntari Dandutse, said this erstwhile helium led members of the committee connected an oversight sojourn to the board’s bureau successful Abuja connected Thursday.

While noting the value of the committee to the technological improvement of Nigeria, Dandutse said that the Senate would look into amending the obsolete laws governing NBTE.

According to him: “We volition look astatine repealing the laws that volition marque them realise the objectives of innovation successful a modern acceptable up.

“We are going to look into the challenges and code them. We privation to spouse with you. We request to code young Nigerians to beryllium aforesaid employed.

“It’s lone done these polytechnics we tin person method students who tin execute a precise robust innovation successful making Nigeria large successful presumption of engineering.”

The Executive Secretary of NBTE, Prof Idris Bugaje, said that the committee was established successful 1977 adding that it supervises, accredits and regulates implicit 700 institutions, 156 polytechnics and 145 monotechnics.

“Sokoto is the lone authorities successful Nigeria without a national polytechnic. We admit it truthful that Sokoto volition besides person a national polytechnic.

“We are proposing that FCT has a national polytechnic successful Gwarinpa. A draught has already been fixed to the curate and it volition soon spell to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, and from determination to the Senate,” helium stated.