First batch of Dangote drivers to complete training in January

The first batch of the 2,000 Dangote Graduate Drivers Training Scheme will conclude their training in January, 2013, says Director-General of the institute, Alhaji Aminu Yusuf. The scheme was launched in November at the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology.

He said 2,000 graduates of various disciplines were expected to be trained under the scheme to become professional truck drivers. 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.

“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. 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. Congratulations in advance to them.