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Innovation, according to the United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Okoye (2012), is a general change that is deliberate and must never be regarded as simple adjustment. Continuing, UNESCO added that innovation refers to any persistent change in the patterns of behavior of members of an identifiable social system. It is a novel departure from a customary practice that can be sustained for some time which is situational and relevant to a group in time and place, and when widely adopted, it becomes a reform. Innovation is a technique, idea, a practice or an object that is perceived by an individual or another unit as new (Nwafor, 2007). Microsoft (2009) sees Innovation as the act or process of inventing or introducing something new. It is also a new invention or way of doing something. Furthermore, Innovation is a change in the thought process of doing things or the useful application of inventions and discoveries (McGeown 2011). From these definitions, it implies that when new inventions and discoveries are put in practice, or a successful introduction of a better thing/method, therefore, innovation could have taken place. Innovation is also a process that renews or improves something that exists. It is the act of introducing new ideas in order to improve or make an existing one more effective.