The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), has announced plans to launch Nigeria Outsourcing Value Acceleration (NOVA).
Director General of NOTAP, Obiageli Amadiobi disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the pre-event press conference on the forthcoming Nigerian Technology Innovation Summit (NTIS).
The Summit is scheduled to take place in Lagos from 6th to 7th November 2025, with the theme: “Harnessing Research and Development and Innovation, Potentials of Nigeria’s STI Ecosystem”.
She said with what they have achieved in the ICT sector some Nigerian companies now export banking applications and it will be replicated in other sectors.
According to her, “We have what we call the local content policy. We have done it in ICT. And the good news is that Nigerians are now exporting written applications.They now have their own applications, banking applications. So, we want the same for all other sectors”.
Speaking on the benefits of the summit, she said, “we will not only bring in the foreigners, we will make them understand their relationship with their organisations in Nigeria and what is expected of them technologically to do.
She also noted that they are in partnership with an audit firm to fish out companies with unregistered technologies in the country.
“We are partnering with an auditor who is engaged to fish out these technologies that these people have not registered. CBN is doing a wonderful job for us in that line because they are now mandating the banks to ensure, and rightly so, that everybody applying for remittance of money, transfer of money from this country on technologies must obtain NOTAP certificates.”
Amadiobi clarified that the foreign companies in Nigeria using local raw materials must have a laboratory here.
“If you have a technology imported into this country, and you are operating in this country, the raw materials are here, but you don’t have a laboratory in Nigeria.For such people, we make them to establish laboratories in Nigeria. I visited Cameroon with my staff and Ivory Coast, and we saw where they prepare seedlings for Nigerian markets. They export it to us, whereas the palm plantations are in Nigeria.
“In the next one week, we will be talking to the AGMs of such organisations to ask them to establish laboratories here in Nigeria that can do the same thing.”
“And if we succeed in that, it means we are saving the country the money that we should have paid or remitted as foreign exchange to those companies outside the country.”
