The Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo has said his ministry would not approve any foreign training except the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) does not offer such a programme.
The Minister stated this in his remarks when he visited NITT headquarters in Zaria .
challenging NITT to redesign its programmes in line with global standards sambo said, the NITT should also upgrade its curricula following global best practices and affiliate with other schools towards increasing the knowledge base of lecturers.
Earlier, the Director General and CEO of NIIT, Dr Bayero Farah, called for the federal government’s interventions on the budgetary challenges.
He stressed that the Institute has some challenges, namely, budgetary constraints and the need to strengthen legal Instruments to keep pace with the current realities in the industry and play the leading role in driving research, training and technology innovation in the industry amongst other challenges. Vanguard