Nigeria’s Engineering Agency joins Global League of Science…

National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has been admitted into the World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS), a global league of science innovators.

This is a feat given that she has become the first African government agency to be so admitted.

NASENI’s admission was confirmed at the Association’s 2025 annual plenary meeting, in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province.

The development marks the formal entry into the midst of over 60 national science institutions and research agencies shaping the future of youth-led innovation and cross-border scientific collaboration across the world.

By implication, the agency’s Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, Mr. Khalil Suleiman Halilu, who also became the first African to serve on the WAYS Board.

The World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS) is a non-governmental organisation that champions youth-driven solutions to global engineering and science-related challenges.

The list includes climate change, food security, and sustainable industrialisation.

Through its summits, exchange programmes, and the prestigious Young Scientist Sustainable Development Goals Award, WAYS serves as a convener and catalyst for cross-border collaboration, encouraging young researchers to develop practical solutions to shared challenges.

Analysts see NASENI’s inclusion, into the global League of Science Innovators as a reflection of a new era in which African institutions are taking their rightful place in shaping the global conversation on innovation, technology, and sustainability.

“Nigeria at the Heart of Global Sustainability,” was the topic of a keynote address Halilu at the Conference in China.

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“The bridge between government and private sector is becoming stronger, turning policy into practical outcomes”, he said, adding that This is what progress looks like: policy meets innovation, innovation meets people, and people meet opportunity”.

He explained that NASENI’s participation in WAYS underscores Nigeria’s commitment to sustainable industrialization characterised by clean technology, renewable energy, and green manufacturing.

“Young Nigerians, your ideas, your energy, and your innovation have a place at the global table. The world is watching what we build next. Let us move together,” he added.