- The Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan, NIRP (PDF File) of 2014 was initiated under the Goodluck Jonathan administration by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, MITI. It is a 100-page extensive script on a “5-year plan” to industrialize Nigeria – NewsRescue
It appears that both the federal and state governments are beginning to realise that the knowledge economy stands a better chance of lifting the Nigerian economy again rather than the oil windfall. This is considering the investments the federal government and some of its state counterparts are committing to intellectual property, IP and innovative knowledge hubs in recent times.
National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has made different investments ranging from training the youths on IT innovation, building capacity, to supporting tech start-ups on software or mobile application development. However, the federal government had come out to categorically state that it was going to build innovation centres, at least one in each geo-political zone.
Minister of Communications Technology, Mr. Adebayo Shittu recently reiterated government’s willingness to engender a pervasive ICT knowledge among the youths across the country, arguing that the best and easiest way to go about it was to scatter knowledge factories everywhere in the country.
“Our policies are geared towards using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) as a catalyst for innovation in every sector of the economy.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/fg-build-six-knowledge-factories-across-nigeria/