The National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC, has commissioned an world-class Automotive Training Centre in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Commissioning the Centre on Friday, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, said the facility was equipped with world class training equipment and modules from Germany to empower youth and upskill them into highly professional technicians in the automotive field.
He said: “This is necessary in a dynamically changing world where technological skills are essential for relevance, and the automotive world is increasingly embedding highly advanced systems that need matching competency for repairs, service and maintenance.”
The minister reiterated the new Centre’s importance in Technology Transfer, saying that the project is in line with the recently approved 2023 NAIDP, the National Automotive Industry Development Plan.
“It is a policy aimed at enabling an aggressive growth of the Nigerian Automotive Sector with the objective of creating 1 million jobs, attaining 40% local content, and 30% Electric Vehicles local production ratio,” the minister added.
Also speaking, the Director-General of the NADDC, Jelani Aliyu, stated that the Centre is one of the now 21 developed across the nation by the agency in its committment to train and empower youth in the automotive sector.
This, he believed, would strategically create a nationwide massive pool of highly professional, competent and inspired automotive technicians who can easily and effectively handle the much needed repairs, service and maintenance of both normal and new intelligent automobiles, especially as we head more and more into the era of Electric Vehicles.
