Technology will off er better built, long lasting, cleaner, safer and smarter products for the home, communication, medicine, transport, agriculture industry
Niger state Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Hajiya Fatima Madugu, has called on the federal government to adopt Nanotechnology in the development of science and technology sector. Madugu, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, noted that Nanotechnology, if adopted, would impact positively on industries and all spheres of the society. She said that Nanotechnology was the application of extremely small things that could be applied across all fi elds of sciences such as chemistry, biology, physics, material science and engineering.
“Th e technology will off er better built, long lasting, cleaner, safer and smarter products for the home, communication, medicine, transport, agriculture industry as well as the power sector. “Imagine a technology that can be used to deploy a medical device that travels through the human body to seek out and destroy small clusters of cancerous cells before they can spread. Th is will be wonderful,’’ she said. According to her, understanding and utilising Nanotechnology would off er, not only better products, but vastly improved manufacturing process. “Nanotechnology is the next industrial revolution. It may be only a matter of time. “Th e real meaning of Nanotechnology will be clearly defi ned by the time building of products becomes cheap as the copying of fi les in a computer,’’ she said. Nanotechnology is the use of techniques and tools being developed today to make complete and hig gh performance products.
