Echono receiving an Award of Excellence from the President of NAAT, Ibeji Nwokoma at the event

Speaking at the award ceremony, President of NAAT, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma, informed the guests that the award was in recognition of Echonos exemplary leadership in the education sector, quality assurance and service to humanity.

At the event, which held at NAAT Secretariat at the University of Abuja, the NAAT President applauded the TETFund boss for his interventions in the tertiary education sub-sector, especially as it relates to the association. This, he said, has seen the establishment of new laboratories, upgrade of existing ones and scholarships for NAAT members, among others.

Echono added that the National Association of Academic Technologists played a central role because they are the ones in charge of our laboratories and workshops across our various institutions.

We have embarked on a programme as they all acknowledged; we have teams going round all our institutions to assess the resource infrastructure, to assess the quality of equipment that we have in our workshops, to ensure that we have steady electricity to power some of these critical laboratories in our campuses.

Mr. President has approved a significant intervention for this and we intend to begin to intervene as soon as we receive the report and the prioritisation of these interventions, which would be sustained.

We are trying to promote a linkage between our institutions and the community. They will be organising skills acquisition programmes for their host communities. Each polytechnic, for example, is identifying core areas of competencies where they want to promote. And through holiday programmes, sandwich programmes, we are going to take people away from the streets and they will earn a living and feed themselves and their families.

TETFund will sponsor the production of professional journals and magazines as well as those by bodies such as your own. I want to assure you on behalf of our management that this publication will receive TETFunds funding because this is a collective will of all the practitioners and technologists in our academic environment.

So, a document that is edited by you, produced by you for your use and for your students cannot be faulted. TETFund will therefore support the sustenance of this journal in the same way we are supporting several professional journals, he stated.

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