The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in partnership with Enactus Nigeria on Thursday launched the Nigerian Content Science and Technology Innovation Challenge, STIC in Lagos.
The Nigerian Content STIC is another dimension into NCDMB’s interventions with the science, technology and innovation initiatives. STIC, an enterprise development programme is designed to encourage Nigerian students to embrace the culture of research, innovation and entrepreneurship development.
In his keynote address, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr Simbi Wabote said that STIC is borne out of the need to position Nigerian Tertiary Institutions as front runners in stimulating ideas on indigenous and affordable technological advances, that are consistent with the aspirations of the Board’s 10-year strategic roadmap and the NOGICD Act of 2010.
“We need to prepare and position our young minds and talents for the 4th industrial revolution that is about to take place.
Wabote further stated that in view of the opportunities created by technology and innovation in trying times such as the COVID-19 era, “I call on our teeming youths to put on their thinking cap and innovate towards creating viable solutions that will solve business challenges in Nigeria and the world at large and earn the reward that comes with it.
“The competition is open to Nigerian undergraduates from any of the accredited universities and polytechnics in the country.
“With about 170 public and private universities in Nigeria producing more than half a million graduates every year, we see huge opportunities to extract brilliant ideas from our agile and very creative youths to solve our current and future societal problems. Our interest is to catalyse this for the Nigerian youths,” Wabote said.
Also speaking, the Country Director of Enactus Nigeria, Michael Ajayi, noted that STIC is a timely initiative that will positively engage the Nigerian youths and enable them create wealth, job opportunities and innovative solutions for everyday problems in different sector of the nation’s economy.
SOURCE: energyreview.com