The National Automotive Council has said that it spent N100 million on the installation of training equipment on modern car electrical and electronics maintenance in six institutions across the country.
The Director, Policy and Planning at the council, Mr Lukman Mamudu, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja last week.
Mamudu said the equipment installed was to equip the students and specialists in the auto industry with the expertise to address problems associated with wiring and maintenance of modern cars.
The National Automotive Council has said that it spent N100 million on the installation of training equipment on modern car electrical and electronics maintenance in six institutions across the country.
The Director, Policy and Planning at the council, Mr Lukman Mamudu, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja last week.
Mamudu said the equipment installed was to equip the students and specialists in the auto industry with the expertise to address problems associated with wiring and maintenance of modern cars.
The director listed the institutions to include Kaduna Polytechnic, Federal Polytechnic Port Harcourt and Lagos State Polytechnic.
The others were National Metallurgical Institute, Enugu, Gombe State Polytechnic and Federal Technical College, Orozo, Abuja.
He said the council had signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with these institutions to train other artisans.
“An Italian-based company, Motor Scan Incorporation, made the supply and the installation of the equipment to the institutions”
“The company conducted the train-the-trainers’ workshop on how the equipment should be used,” he said.
Mamudu said 400 experts had so far been trained across the country.
In related development, the director said the equipment would also be installed at the three safety laboratories before the December 2014.
The council had established material testing laboratory at Zaria in Kaduna State; Component test laboratory in Enugu and Emission testing laboratory at Lagos.
“All this is to ensure that the components to be produced meet up with international standard,” he said.
Mamudu urged the stakeholders in the automobile industry to support the new National Automotive Industry Development Plan which aimed at providing employment, generating revenue and conservation of foreign reserve.
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