Reps advance bill to boost Nigeria’s drone industry

By Gift Chapi Odekina, Abuja
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to establish a legal framework for the development, promotion and industrialisation of Nigeria’s drone industry.
The bill, sponsored by Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, and 12 other lawmakers, seeks to reduce the country’s dependence on imported drone technology by promoting local research, design, manufacturing and commercialisation.
Leading the debate on the general principles of the bill at plenary on Wednesday, one of its co-sponsors, Hon. Satomi Ahmad, said the proposed legislation would establish the legal and institutional framework needed to develop Nigeria’s indigen...