New Board for NOTAP, NISLT to Address Intellectual Rights Issues

Federal government has constituted new governing boards for National Office of Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) and the Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT) to boost the issues of intellectual property rights in the country.

Inaugurating the boards, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, supervising minister of science and technology, urged them to provide policy guidelines for the operations of the agencies to enable them render technology related services to investors and innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers and industries.

The minister who also described members of the Governing Boards as people with proven integrity, unwavering patriotism and uncommon sense of duty, tasked the members to bring these worthy attributes to bear on their mandates as enshrined in the Acts establishing their agencies.

She requested the inaugurated boards to consolidate on their achievements by taking the agencies to the next level, which according to her, “would require total commitment and diligence of the highest order”.

Mrs. Rabi Jimeta, chairperson of the board of the National Office of Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) and permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology who spoke on behalf of the two inaugurated Governing Boards, pledged their readiness to render selfless service, and ensure that the transformation agenda of the present administration becomes a reality.