A bill to establish the Nigeria Air force Institute of Technology, a training outfit of the Air Force on Thursday scaled third reading and subsequently passed into law.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Air Force, Duro Faseyi (Ekiti North) in a report to the Committee of the whole said; “The institute will serve as a nucleus centre of research and innovations”.
He also maintained that other African countries would benefit from the institute, hence, there was need to strenghten the institute through legal framework for its certificate be recognised across the world.
Faseyi noted that part of challenges facing the institute was under funding which has hampered their operations, saying if passed into law, the institute will begin to draw funds from Tertfund, direct federal allocation as well as other educationally dedicated funds for researches.
Senate President having considered clauses of the report by Committee of the whole, stressed that Nigeria will be among few countries in the world that will produce professionals in aerospace technology management and passed the bill into law.
The development has made the institute which has been existing as a vocational outfit become a tertiary institutions with mandate to run full National Diploma and Higher National Diploma in aerospace technology management and allied courses.
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