Nigeria’s Space Agency recommits to quality research and innovation
The National Space Research and Development Agency NASRDA in Nigeria have restated its commitment in ensuring consistency in research and development for a qualitative output.
The Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency NASRDA, Dr Halilu Shaba who said this during the Space Day at the ongoing Science, Technology and Innovation EXPO holding in Abuja Nigeria’s capital added that consistency remains a major factor in ensuring a qualitative research outcome that sees it through the market.
The DG noted that the agency has been building on its existing innovations such as the automated irrigation system, telescopes, thrusters for rockets amongst others to see that it meets international standards.
“If you look at what we brought last year, we have improved on so many of them, if you look at the automated system, we are trying to now nimitralize it, it is more efficient, and because we have asked a lot of people, does it conform with what you want? Which is like marketing concept, we want to know what you want to do with it.
“Irrigation is supposed to increase in the area of agricultural development, we don’t have to waste water, and then it gives you the right quantity, and once the right quantity is achieve it goes off. That alone is boosting agriculture in Nigeria,” he said.
Areas of disaster management, cleaning of oil spills, Cloud base amongst others are other areas Dr Shaba said the agency is building on in order to avoid capital flight in search of same.
“We have also increased the knowledge portal, that’s why we have the cloud base here, we don’t have to go out to somewhere to go and get it,” he added.
He reaffirms that the Science, Television and Innovation Television STI TV has come to stay as all commitments has been given to ensure that the Science, Technology and Innovation story is featured in-depth and unadulterated.
“So we want to use the right vocabulary to say this is what we are trying to achieve, so what NASRDA did was we provided the platform, we already have some facilities, we got the license, and now the STI Tv is domiciled in NASRDA, we have the right environment for that,” Dr Shaba said.
