NASENI’s Feat On Innovation, Research Produces Laptops, Phones, Others

To support industrialization efforts in Nigeria, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, has rolled out four quality products in Nigeria that can compete favourably with other products.

The feat attained was in the Area of inventing its own branded products : NASENI Laptop, NASENI Android Smartphone, NASENI Lithium battery and NASENI 300watts LED Solar Street Lamp.

The Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, Mr Khalil Suleiman Halilu who gave the hint during its quarterly briefing in Abuja, said the efforts was in line with the Agency’s mandate to innovate, stimulate and showcase indigenous socio- economic advancement of Nigeria to the global communities, adding that two of these products have entered the market.

Halilu noted that NASENI was strategizing to get the products flooded in the market as a way of meeting part of its mandates, to have exportable products and create jobs.

According to him, the Agency is leveraging on its 3Cs principle of Creation, Collaboration and Commercialization with both public and private sectors strategic partners to ensure that any invented product gets to the market.

He explained that efforts were also ongoing to discover talented and inventful children and youths from the rural areas to help them develop their potential in sciences, technology, agriculture, Mathematics among others, just like the DELT-HER project established to nurture and support young Female Engineers in the country.

Responding to questions on the quality of the products, Mr Halilu said NASENI was not unaware of the competition in the market, hence he hinted that the Agency’s experts had put the best materials together to ensure durability, with plans to make them affordable to sustain the market toward promoting technology transfer domestication and commercialization.

On renewable energy, he said NASENI came up with 600 mega Watts solar panel as against the 500 mega Watts that is commonly seen in most markets, and working hard to set up the first Solar mounting rack factory in West Africa.

” We have a lot of engineers with expertise, so our quality is superb. If you don’t have the right mounting rack, there is no way the solar panel can get to the specified 25 years. So, we are working on setting up the right mounting rack in West Africa.” Halilu said.

On Agriculture, Mr Halilu who explained that NASENI has some Engineers currently training in producing fertilizer, identified lack of food traceability as one of the setbacks Nigeria was grappling with in exporting her food products.

“As we speak now, we have Engineers in Indonesia doing training on fertilizer and have two factories under construction for fertilizer.”

He, however, assured that the Agency was doing a lot to sustain its exportable products and to reduce Nigeria’s importation of capital goods.

According to him, land for crop cultivation are shrinking, so NASENI is exploring other avenues to ensure more production to enhance food security, as well as collaborating with development partners for sustainability.

Other listed achievements of NASENI are: development of NASENI Proposal Evaluation Portal, NASENI Growth Hacker, NASENI ERP, NASENI eProcurement, NASENI STEMBOX, NASENI Innovation Hub, PICTT e.g.: Delta2 and DeltHer, amongst others.

Lending his voice on the dynamic nature of the STEMBOX, the SA to the EVC on Science and Engineering Commercialization, NASENI, Anas Yazid,
described the STEMBOX as a container powered by solar energy, configured with some sort of apps that will be used to groom young people in science- engineering and mathematics particularly in rural areas.

NASENI had within the year unveiled Solar Irrigation System, Electric Keke, Electric Motorcycle and Solar-powered cargo Tricycle among others.

Remi Johnson, Edited By Grace Namiji