As part of efforts targeted at deepening the vocational and trade skills acquisition, especially among the jobless youths in the country, Dangote Nigeria Limited has perfected an economic plan with the Ogun State government on possible training and employment of jobless residents of the state.
The agreement, according to information gathered by BusinessDay, indicates that Dangote Nigeria Limited and Ogun State Technical and Vocational Education Board had conducted a recruitment exercise for 79 youths in the state for onward training in electrical installation, fabrication and welding, fitting and machining, instrument mechanics work and motor mechanics under Dangote Academy Scheme 2015 Junior Scheme.
Speaking in Abeokuta shortly after the memorandum of agreement signed between the state government and Dangote Academy, represented by Adesumbo Williams, Doyin Ogunbiyi, chairperson, Ogun State Technical and Vocational Education Board, had interviewed 79 students drawn from state-owned technical schools that would undergo training as pioneer students of Dangote Academy.
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Ogunbiyi said the trade and vocational skills acquisition training designed for the students was meant to impact the knowledge and rudiments of industry-based technology in the identified trades and vocations at no cost to the state government and the participants, explaining that the 18-month training would be completely financed by Dangote Nigeria.
The chairperson submitted that the 79 students were selected by the government based on a database of candidates that graduated from government technical colleges in the 2013/2014 session, adding that the students would undergo the 18-month training without the cost of training, accommodation, feeding allowances and would also be paid stipends during the training period.
She, however, disclosed that Dangote Nigeria had assured the state of possible employment for the brilliant ones among them at the end of the programme, saying “Dangote Group of companies would employ them after training in electrical installation, fabrication and welding, fitting and machining, instrument mechanics work and motor mechanics, among others.”
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