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Buhari directs minister, FIRS to release funds to NASENI Buhari directs minister, FIRS to release funds to NASENI • As agency gets marching order to produce helicopter Share President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to commence the process of releasing statutory funds due to the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to enable it to fulfil its mandate. He gave the directive, on ...

Buhari gives marching order to NESENI to produce helicopter On By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has given a marching order to the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, to manufacture made in Nigeria helicopter. President Buhari also ordered the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed and the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to commence the process of releasing statutory funds due to the agency to enable it fulfill its mandate. The President, w...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), to collaborate with Dynali Company, a Belgian Helicopter Manufacturing Company, for the local production of helicopters. The President gave the directive at a meeting with the Board of NASENI at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday. x Buhari also approved the National Tractor Refurbishment and Recovery Programme, to cater for the repairs and repositi...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to release statutory funds due to the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to enable it to function optimally. Buhari, who gave the directive during a virtual meeting of the board of NASENI held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also ordered the agency to commence manufacturing of “made-in-Nigeria” he...

Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said the commission will collaborate with the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, for the supply of science equipment and solar power to basic education schools across the country.

Vanguard News UBEC to collaborate with NASENI on home grown science equipment On By Joseph Erunke, Abuja Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has said the commission will collaborate with the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, for the supply of science equipment and solar power to basic education schools across the country. Bobboyi, according to a statement, Sunday, by David Apeh, Head, Public Relations and Pr...

“We have already manufactured the jet engine, what is delaying the completion now is security clearance from the office of National Security Adviser, and fund to be able to source for the other components. By December of this year, we should launch the helicopter”, Haruna said. He said the Ministry of Environment would soon send its technical team to assess the environmental impact the production of the aircraft could have. He also disclosed that the Ministry of Finance would be approached ...

Haruna explained that President Buhari had given NASENI and the rest of the agencies associated with the Nigeria helicopter project including the Federal Ministry of Aviation to expedite actions on the processes. He reiterated the commitment of the Buhari administration to launch the first Made in Nigeria non-commercial helicopter currently being manufactured at NASENI. He said the president plans to launch the NASENI manufactured helicopter in the last quarter of the year 2021. Haruna said the...

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has unveiled a car built by Mr Auwal Hassan, a 30-year-old Nigerian inventor. Speaking in his office in Abuja on Monday, the minister called on youths to be innovative in producing goods and services that are usually imported, saying that would improve the Gross Domestic Product […]

ABUJA – The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, says his ministry is determined to accelerate the pace of industrialisation of Nigeria, to create wealth for citizens. Onu, who made this known on Tuesday, in Abuja, when a delegation of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) paid him a courtesy visit, disclosed that his ministry had developed six policies that were critical for the industrialisation and transformation of Nigeria to a knowledge-based economy. He cited Executiv...