Mr Mohammed Jibrin, Director-General (DG), of National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI), has embarked on inspection of facilities at Lafia and Makurdi incubation centres.
Mr Reuben Shagu, Head of Media and Public Relations, NBTI, made this known in a statement on Monday.
Shagu said Jibrin had on Friday, paid a post commissioning visit to Lafia centre and a pre-commissioning inspection visit to Makurdi centre on Saturday.
According to him, the purpose of the Lafia visit was to inspect the facilities that were commissioned in September 2019, in order to ascertain the level of operations and areas of improvements.
The media aide said the visits accorded the DG the opportunity to familiarise with the “areas that needed more attention and areas he felt entrepreneurs needed to be guided.
“Most especially, Jibrin hinted on the need to begin to train the entrepreneurs on how to write their own business personal plans.’’
The DG said if entrepreneurs wrote their own business plans by themselves, it will enable them know best methods of implementation, rather than have their business plans written by someone else.
He tasked the centre manager in charge of the Lafia technology incubation centre, to ensure things worked out well so that entrepreneurs could be up and doing in their businesses.
According to Shagu, Jibrin also inspected the incubation unit facility which enables entrepreneurs start a business, and also helps them nurture the business to grow and become competitive.
He said the DG also inspected the mechanical workshop, the laboratory and the electrical workshops, which were all well equipped according to global best practices.
“These workshops assist the entrepreneurs who do not have the money to go outside the centres to do what needs to be done, like analysis on the products they are to carry out, among others.
“The mechanical workshop is there for entrepreneurs who are into fabrication, who do not have some certain equipment that they can make use of in their fabrication.
“These equipment are there in the centre and they are availed the opportunity to use this equipment free of charge by the Federal Government,’’ he said in the statement.
The NBTI DG also urged staff of the centres to make judicious use of Federal Government’s investments in their respective centres.
The high point of the visit on Friday was a courtesy visit to Gov. Addullahi Sule of Nassarawa State.
Sule expressed appreciation over the visit by Jibrin and his team of Directors.
The governor expressed his government’s willingness to give maximum support to the technology incubation centre in Lafia for the benefit of his people.
The directors on the DG’s entourage were Dr John Oni, Director, Post Incubation and Extension Services and Mrs Hussaina Bakari, Deputy Director in charge of Operations, Shagu disclosed in the statement.
