The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology (FMST) has disbursed a grant of N45 million to deserving inventors and innovators in Nigeria, an official, Mohammed Jubrin, has said.
Jubrin, the director general, National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI), made this known to the press Thursday in Abuja.
The director-general said the N45 million was disbursed by the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, to inventors and entrepreneurs in 2017.
He explained that this has assisted the development or the culture of entrepreneurship, which is technology based and after some time, we expect these companies to become key players in the economy.