The Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Kano
has got approval to operate as an Innovation
Enterprise Institution. This was conveyed to DBI by the National Board for Technical
Education (NBTE) recently. The letter conveying the approval and signed by
Executive Secretary, of NBTE, Dr. M.A Kazaure on behalf of the Minister of
Education Mallam Adamu Adamu said DBI Kano should
operate as Innovation Enterprise
Institution with effect from May 3, 2016.
It also said 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.
DBI 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/learning centre in Abuja. 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.
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