Senate mulls repeal of Act establishing NBTE

The Senate is considering the repeal of the Act establishing the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Muntari Dandutse, stated this when he led members of the committee on an oversight visit to the Board’s office on Thursday in Abuja.

He said the Senate would look into amending the obsolete laws governing the NBTE.

The chairman said: “We will look at repealing the laws that will make them realise the objectives of innovation in a modern set up.

“We are going to look into the challenges and address them. We want to partner with you. We need to encourage young Nigerians to be self-employed.

“It’s only through these polytechnics we can have technical students who can achieve a very robust innovation in making Nigeria great in terms of engineering.”

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The Executive Secretary of NBTE, Prof Idris Bugaje, said the Board was established in 1977, adding that it supervises, accredits and regulates over 700 institutions, including 156 polytechnics and 145 mono-technics in the country.

He added that Sokoto State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were the only states yet to have federal polytechnics.

“Sokoto is only the state in Nigeria without a federal polytechnic. We appreciate it so that Sokoto will also have a federal polytechnic.

“We are proposing that FCT has a federal polytechnic in Gwarinpa. A draft has already been given to the minister and it will soon go to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and from there to the Senate,” the NBTE chief stated.

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