Buhari’s Industrialisation Agenda, My Major Priority – NASENI Boss

The newly appointed acting executive vice chairman and CEO of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Mrs Nonyem Onyechi, has said that the stability of the agency to pursue the industrialisation agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration remains her priority.

Onyechi officially resumed office yesterday in her new capacity at the NASENI headquarters, Idu Industrial Area, Abuja, where she held a consultation meeting with the four principal officers in the Agency comprising the NASENI’s coordinating directors at the headquarters.

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday by the deputy director in charge of Information in the agency, Olusegun Ayeoyenikan. He noted that the meeting was frank and cordial, stressing that all the principal officers agreed to work together as a team to move the Agency to the next level of transformations currently taking place in the organisation.

“The stability of the Agency to pursue the industrialisation Agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration remains our priority, Mrs. Onyechi said.

The acting EVC/CE, who took over from the former EVC-Prof Mohammed Sani Haruna after the latter’s eventful ten years in the saddle pledged her total commitment to promote NASENI through its activities as one of the most visible legacies of President Buhari to be bequeathed to the next government in Nigeria in May,2023.

President Muhammadu Buhari, according to her, had demonstrated much benevolence to the Agency by approving large funding and investments to NASENI to manufacture and fabricate machines as well as facilitating the technical support needed by the Agency to facilitate Nigeria’s industrialisation.

Mrs. Onyechi further stated that the NASENI’s Management is poised to take the Agency to a desirable height with growing support by staff and stakeholders and to strengthen its capacity while maintaining its development institutes, productive outfits and skill acquisition centres across the country.

Mrs. Onyechi holds Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in the sciences with bias in Zoology from the University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka and University of Lagos respectively. Onyechi is a professional member of Nigerian Institute of Management and Materials Society of Nigeria.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Consultants (FCIMC) and a Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC). She has Civil Service working experience spanning over 3 decades beginning from the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and later she moved to NASENI following the establishment of the Agency in 1992. She is a thorough-bred public servant and until her elevation to the office of Acting Executive Vice Chairman, she was the Coordinating Director, Planning Business Development of the Agency.

According to the statement, the acting EVC is known to be abreast and well-grounded in the development of Science, Technology and Innovation policies and had demonstrated satisfactory skills and best practices in its formulations and implementations for NASENI mandate.