NOTAP advocates more funding for R&D

The Director-General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) Dr Danazumi Ibrahim has said huge funding for Research and Development (R&D) is the only panacea for Nigeria to become technologically independent. Ibrahim was speaking when he received in audience the Director-General and officials of the Defence Research and Development Bureau (DRDB) who […]

The Director-General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) Dr Danazumi Ibrahim has said huge funding for Research and Development (R&D) is the only panacea for Nigeria to become technologically independent.

Ibrahim was speaking when he received in audience the Director-General and officials of the Defence Research and Development Bureau (DRDB) who were on a courtesy visit to NOTAP headquarters in Abuja.

Dr. Ibrahim said over 90 percent of the technologies that powers the Nigerian economy is imported and therefore the countty must be strategic in her approach to tackling this anomaly.

Earlier, Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Bureau (DRDB) Air Vice Marshall Onyemaechi Osahor said the bureau is charged with the responsibility of co-coordinating all the activities of defence related laboratories, initiating, conducting and coordinating research and development activities in defence and security related areas.