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FG Poised To Fund Inventions Within Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to take full inventory of all indigenous inventions and innovations for possible financial support.
Press Secretary to Ministry of Science and Technology, Maryam Zakari made the disclosure in a statement given on Thursday in Abuja.
Mr, Mohammed Abdullahi, Minister of State for Science and Technology, disclosed this while receiving a young Nigerian Inventor, Mr. Usman Dalhatu, in his office on Thursday in Abuja. the statement reads.
According to the statement, the president is also the Chairman of the Presidential Standing Committee on Inventions and Innovation (PSCII).
”President Buhari had also directed the Committee to identify credible research products with potentials to impact all areas of national life.
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“Usman Dalhatu came to display to the Minister his inventions-medical ventilators and sweeping machine,’’ the statement read.
The Minister assured the young innovator of the backing of the ministry and directed the agencies to arrange a partnership with the young inventor so as to make his products globally competitive for exportation.
Speaking earlier, Mr. Usman Dalatu, said his inventions were environmentally friendly, cost-effective, elastic and could be powered by solar energy.
“ The ventilators can also be used in ambulances, armoured tanks,’’ he said.
Dalatu had called on the Federal Government to show support for his products by patronizing and promoting them.
He said the products had gone through clinical trials for one week in Gombe.
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