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The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has developed and introduced over 40 products, including electric vehicles, solar systems, laptops, smartphones and rapid diagnostic kits.
The agency disclosed this in a statement released on Sunday to mark three years of institutional reforms and technology commercialisation.
The products span renewable energy, transportation, agriculture, healthcare, information technology, clean cooking and education. They include electric tricycles, CNG conversion solutions, solar irrigation pumps, solar home systems, batteries, smartphones, tablets, laptops, televisions, diagnostic kits and clean cookstoves.
The development aligns with the Federal Government’s efforts to boost local manufacturing, reduce import dependence and commercialise home-grown technologies under the Renewed Hope Agenda.
NASENI said its focus was to bridge the gap between research and industrial production by linking innovation with funding, manufacturing, skills and market access.
Its Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Khalil Halilu, said Nigeria had the technical talent needed to innovate but required stronger systems to turn ideas into marketable products.
“Nigeria has capable engineers, researchers and innovators. What has often been missing is a connected system that can identify promising ideas, develop them, finance them, manufacture them and take them to the market,” he said.
The agency said it had also digitised key processes, strengthened internal audit and reporting systems and introduced an Enterprise Resource Planning system.
It said its innovation-to-industry pipeline covers talent discovery, research funding, incubation, product development, commercialisation and market access.
In 2025, NASENI said it awarded N229m in research commercialisation grants to 14 researchers working on agriculture, clean energy, healthcare, mobility and digital security.
The agency is also developing a 40-hectare Solar Industrial Park in Gora, Nasarawa State, while an electric vehicle assembly facility is being developed at Abuja Technology Village.
It said CNG conversion and reverse-engineering centres had also been established in Abuja, while solar-powered irrigation technology was being deployed under the Irrigate Nigeria Project.
In healthcare, NASENI said the NASENI-Troment Rapid Diagnostics Factory in Abuja was being developed to support local production of medical diagnostic products.
The agency said it had established more than 50 local and international partnerships in renewable energy, automotive technology, agriculture, healthcare, defence, aerospace and research.
However, NASENI said the next phase would focus on scaling commercial production, increasing local content, improving standards and certification, boosting factory utilisation and expanding market adoption.
Halilu said the success of the agency would ultimately be measured by products manufactured and sold, jobs created, local suppliers engaged and investments mobilised.
“The real test is whether our products are adopted, our factories operate sustainably, our partnerships transfer useful capabilities, our trainees secure livelihoods and more value remains within the Nigerian economy,” he said.
The agency noted that while some factories and products were already operational, others remained at the development, testing or commercialisation stages.
