This was disclosed when the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, paid a working visit to the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Sonny Echono at the Fund’s Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said with Nigeria’s huge potential if the same could be achieved, or even a 30% GDP addition to Nigeria coming from technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, it would hasten the country’s economic development. In a statement by the Fund’s Director of Public Affairs, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, Freeman also spoke about the Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers programme, an initiative borne out of the need to raise a generation of innovators, inventors and researchers in Nigeria; especially among the youths.