The Kano campus of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Kano
State has been approval to operate as an Innovation Enterprise Institution,
reports ITRealms.
DBI, ITRealms recalls is a specialized institution committed
to the creation of a knowledge-based information society in Nigeria through
human capacity building in Telecommunication and Information &
Communication Technology established by the Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC) in 2004 with its main campus in Abuja, with additional five outreach
campuses across the nation.
Confirming this to ITRealms, Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Mr.
Tony Ojobo, noted that the approval was conveyed to DBI by the National Board
for Technical Education (NBTE) recently.
He also said that the letter conveying the approval and
signed by Executive Secretary, NBTE, Dr. M.A Kazaure on behalf of the Minister
of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu informed DBI Kano should operate as Innovation
Enterprise Institution with effect from May 3, 2016.
According to the letter, the Enterprise Institution should
run the following programmes:
National Innovation Diploma (NID) for Telecommunication
Technology, Multimedia Technology, Networking and system Security, Computer
Software Engineering and Computer Hardware Engineering among others.
“The approval, “according to NBTE”, is subject to the
institutions strict compliance with the Federal Government’s terms and
conditions governing the operations of Innovation Enterprise Institutions”.
Part of the terms contained in the letter is that “the
approval is subject to DBI admitting not more than one stream of 30 students
for each of the programmes”.
Admission of the students into the approved programmes
should commence from 2016/2017 session, it added.
The approval from the NBTE followed a visitation jointly
carried out by the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Board for
Technical Education.
A visible excited Director, of DBI, Dr. Ike Adinde said this
approval is in the right direction, pointing out that with this development DBI
now has regional centres in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, (Enugu State), Yola (Adamawa
State), Asaba, (Delta State).
The institution’s facilities include fully equipped training
rooms, multimedia teaching aids, video conference facilities among others.
Remmy Nweke/GEE
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