NID, Welding & Fabrication Technology

National Innovation Diploma (NID) in Welding And Fabrication is a 2-year program under the Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEIs) supervised by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).

The programme is intended to produce Innovative Technicians in Welding and Fabrication for Innovation Enterprises, Self Employment, Private and Public Sectors of Nigerian Economy. A product of NID IN WELDING AND FABRICATION ENGINEERING should be able to: i. Carry out welding and fabrication operations. ii. Develop the ability to communicate their knowledge of techniques, processes and materials by developing their graphical skills including freehand sketching and measured drawing. iii. Develop practical bench based skills to manipulate a range of common metals directed to the realisation of ideas and the production of artefacts. iv. Provide experience in the use of some common machine tools. v. Establish a capacity to read and interpret formal working drawings and diagrammatic illustrations. vi. Acquire a body of knowledge to inform practical work and give a broad base of understanding of welding and metalworking. vii. Nurture a safe approach to practical work with materials using hand and machine tools. viii. Promote a capacity to solve specified technical design problems ix. Prepare appropriate engineering report. x. Apply management principles in organising supervisory groups and in the arrangement of sequence of activities. xi. Acquire and apply basic entrepreneur skills. xii. Apply adequate Information Technology (IT) skills.

Admission Requirement: Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates from those who sat for the last UTME examination of JAMB, especially those who are vocationally inclined. Our budding entrepreneurs should please avail themselves of this opportunity.

ENTRY REQUIREMENT: Five(5) Credits passess at SSCE/GCE/NECO in Science Subject in not more than two (2) Sittings and a minimum of 100 UTME score. Candidates who did not choose GIPI as their First Choice can equally apply.

METHOD OF APPLICATION: Candidates who did not choose Gateway Industrial & Petro-Gas Institute (GIPI), Oni, Ogun State has their first choice should follow these steps: - Visit any JAMB accredited CBT centre nearest to you and apply for Change of Institution - Choose Gateway Industrial & Petro-Gas Institute, Oni under IEI as your first choice of institution.