The Federal Government has said discussions were going on to brand the Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHESTCO) to a desirable and admired technology hub in Nigeria, Africa and the world.
\nMinister of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), Dr. Adeleke Mamora,\u00a0 made the disclosure in a news\u00a0 forum in Abuja recently.
\nMamora said SHESTCO was critical to the achievement of the STI policy which highlighted driving development through establishing technological parks and hubs.
\n\u201cThe fundamental issue that is delaying SHESTCO is funding, but we already have a very serious international organisation that has come to inspect the complex.
\n\u201cWe have established that we have the land where we can build this tech hub and the organisation will provide the structure and its development.
\n\u201cWe are talking of a centre that will provide all the necessary components as a hub; for training, tourism, technology,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nThe Minister added that the hub would serve for technology and allied industry, for IT parks, incubation centre for technology start-ups and hands-on activities that can generate money for the system.
\n\u201dIt is a huge project that will generate revenue when set up and it is attractive to us because government does not have to pay, the system will be self-sustaining economically\u201d, he said.
\nHe continued that the ministry was already drawing up a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to the effect of the potential collaboration.
\nAccording to him, drawing up of MoU requires the input of the Attorney General of the Federation, because it is something that affects the country, adding that they were\u00a0 on it and that the organisation\u00a0 was serious about making it a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Federal Government has said discussions were going on to brand the Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHESTCO) to a desirable and admired technology hub in Nigeria, Africa and the world. Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), Dr. Adeleke Mamora,\u00a0 made the disclosure in a news\u00a0 forum in Abuja recently. Mamora said SHESTCO was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306039,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306014\/revisions\/306039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}