BREAKING: Diving Technology Bill Sponsored By Pondi Passes First Reading
If successfully passed the bill seeks to establish the following objects:
(a) to encourage the advancement of learning and research and to hold out all persons, the opportunity of acquiring a higher education in diving technology;
(b) to act as agent and catalyst, through training, research and innovation for the effective and economic utilization, and conservation of Nigeria’s natural and human resources;
(c) to develop and offer academic and professional programmes leading to the award of diplomas, higher national diplomas, and other deserving certificates in diving and related fields of study in diving;
(d) to identify the diving problems and needs of Nigeria and to find solutions to them within the context of overall national development;
(e) to offer academic programs in relation to the training of manpower in diving in seas, oceans, rivers etc in Nigeria;
(f) to organize research and studies relevant to training in diving with emphasis on ocean, sea, and river diving;
(g) to organize rescue services and out-reach programs for technology transfer;
(h) to establish institutions linkages in order to foster collaboration and integration of training, research and rescue activities; and
(i) to do such things as may be appropriate to achieving the objects of the Institute.
