According to the association, waiving tuition fees will increase the number of professional engineers and provide much-needed resources for the sector.

Nelson Ogunshakin, ACE chief executive said:

"The industry is working to close the gap in the salaries between engineering and other comparable professions to make engineering careers more attractive.

Until this is achieved we need, as a country, to incentivise engineering as a career.

Waiving tuition fees for engineering courses will increase the demand for those courses and ultimately increase the number of professional engineers the nation so badly needs"