The first batch of the 2,000 Dangote Graduate Drivers Training Scheme will conclude their training in January, 2013, an official has said.<\/p>\n
The scheme was launched in November at the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT).<\/p>\n
The Director-General of the Institute, Alhaji Aminu Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n
He said 2,000 graduates of various disciplines were expected to be trained under the scheme to become professional truck drivers.<\/p>\n
Yusuf explained that the training would be done in batches of 100 participants on quarterly basis over a period of four years which would end in 2016.<\/p>\n
He said the institute was carrying out the training in conjunction with the Federal Vehicle Inspection Officers and the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).<\/p>\n
“These graduates, which include women from the Dangote Group, will undergo a three -month training because they have no knowledge of driving before being certified as drivers.<\/p>\n
“They have graduated from different universities but have never driven vehicles before.
\n“After being certified as drivers at the end of the training, they will be licensed immediately.<\/p>\n
“These drivers will be different from other drivers because they are not illiterates and their training is sound,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the Dangote Group drivers will be taught theoretical and practical training which includes orientation, simulation and test track driving before being exposed to highway driving.<\/p>\n
He said the institute was focused on achieving its mandate to provide human capital development in the transport industry.<\/p>\n
“It is our inherent duty to provide human capacity for the entire transport industry through training and retraining, orientation skills and development and professional training.<\/p>\n
“We feel that we should extend our services to lower cadre especially our middle level and top management training institute.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Yusuf added: “But because of frequent demands from organisations for customised training programmes for drivers, we have now designed and customised such programmes.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He recalled that the institute, before the Dangote Group project, used to train an average of 300 drivers yearly.<\/p>\n
Yusuf said the institute was being funded by the government to develop its staff abroad in rare fields of knowledge which was not available in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
NAN recalls that Yusuf was recently conferred with the Dr Kwame Nkrumah African distinguished Public Service Order of merit Award 2012.<\/p>\n
The award was instituted after the former Ghanaian President and foremost Pan-Africanist, whose life time was synonymous with unparalleled virtues, achievements and service. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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