Metallurgical Training Institute is a Parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development.

The Institute was established in 1980 as a result of a bi-lateral agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Germany.
The establishment of the Institute followed the technical feasibility study carried out in 1979 by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), after a critical appraisal of the needs of the Steel and Allied Industries in Nigeria. The report of the feasibility studies, among others, includes: