The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) said it has trained over 12,000 technicians on repairs and maintenance of tricycles and motorcycles across the country.
The agency said this is to ensure sustainable development of the automotive industry in Nigeria as well as the nation’s economic growth.
This was disclosed by the council’s Director General (DG) Mr Jelani Aliyu during the closing ceremony of the 6th NADDC/Stallion-Bajaj Auto-Keke group mechatronics training and empowerment on repairs and maintenance of tricycles and motorcycles held in Kano. According to him, ongoing modernization in the auto-repair industry in Nigeria with NADDC support is addressing decent work deficits in the auto-repair sector of our informal economy, and is making the trade more gender friendly than before.
The DG implored all the technicians to take full advantage of this unique opportunity to improve their efficiency and skill to deliver a good job.
Similarly, the Director Industrial and Infrastructural Department (IID) Dr Nua Omisanya said he past training programme conducted by the Council in collaboration with Stallion Bajaj Auto Keke Group has proved revolutionary in that it has boosted immensely the operational and technical efficiency, confidence level and professional capacity of participants at the trainings.
