Published On:Wednesday, 28 November 2012
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First batch of Dangote truck drivers to graduate in January 2013
The Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Aminu Yusuf, Monday disclosed that the first batch of the 2,000 Dangote graduate drivers trainees will conclude their training in January, 2013.Yusuf in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), stated the training would be done in batches of 100 participants on quarterly basis.
The programme which is spread over a period of four years would end in 2016.
The DG also disclosed that the institute was carrying out the training in conjunction with the Federal Vehicle Inspection Officers and the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).
“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.
“They have graduated from different universities but have never driven vehicles before.”
“After being certified as drivers at the end of the training, they will be licensed immediately.”
“These drivers will be different from other drivers because they are not illiterates and their training is sound,’’ he said.
He said the institute was determined to provide human capital development in the transport industry.
“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.
“We feel that we should extend our services to lower cadre especially our middle level and top management training institute.’’
The NITT boss further said: “But because of frequent demands from organisations for customised training programmes for drivers, we have now designed and customised such programmes.’’
Yusuf, a Transport expert, was recently conferred with the Dr Kwame Nkrumah African distinguished Public Service Order of merit Award 2012.
