The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has urged Nigeria’s tertiary institutions to change their conventional methods of teaching and embrace technological skills required in the ICT industry.
The Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa, made the call when he received the Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Ahmad, in Abuja on Thursday.
According to him, “We need to change the conventional way of teaching and the way we do things.
“Polytechnics are strategic institutions that serve as engine room for technological development aimed at creating jobs and revenue generation flow across the country.
“There is the need to reengineer the skills and tools being used to suit the current trend of technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Block chain technology, cloud, edge computing and other related technologies.
“We need to create an economy for the ecosystem to develop the needs and wants of the society,’’ he said.
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He said that the agency has put on hold its National Information Technology Development Fund Scheme (NITDEF), which sponsors individuals abroad to study in various IT related fields, to enable NITDA to engage more meaningfully.
This, he further explained, would enable the agency invest more in human skills acquisition which will directly or indirectly create jobs across the country bringing about revenue flow.
He said NITDA had been doing a lot in the areas of IT intervention in institutions across the country in order to build the knowledge and capacities of individuals across the country.
He commended the institution for reaching out to NITDA, adding that the process would deepen IT among students of the institution and the country at large.
Earlier, Ahmad appealed for the agency’s support in human capacity building and IT infrastructural development.
He said, “Our desire as an institution is to become a reference point in terms of ICT infrastructure and standard training facilities that can adequately cater for the staff and students of the institution.”
According to him, the current management of Federal Polytechnic had deployed a lot of resources in the provision of computer laboratories, upgrading of some facilities and initiating new projects.
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