Akwa-Ibom govt lauds NCAT training

By Daniel Eteghe
Akwa-Ibom State Government headed by Governor Godswill Akpabio has lauded the improve level of training that the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria was giving to its students at the college.

While expressing satisfaction about the current collaboration between the Ibom International Airport and the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria at the  weekend at the college in Kaduna State, a member of the Airport Implementation Committee, (AIC) , Dr. Chris Akpan who  led a delegation of the AIC to the graduation Ceremony of the school, affirmed that the team was impressed with  the calibre of personnel and facilities at the aviation college.

He said that with the level of training that was been given to the students in the college that he was sure that such training would add value to all the students which would further boost development in aviation manpower in the industry.

Akpan who represented the Chairman of AIC, Air Cdre Idongesit  O. Nkanga (rtd) at the event where eight Akwa Ibom State indigenes graduated from a 57- week course on Aeronautical Telecommunications Engineering (ATE) said” the standard of training at NCAT has being very high, a situation which enables our graduands from this school to easily blend professionally in the aviation industry on completion”.

According to the public affairs officer of the Ibom Airport Development Company, Mmek Abasi Akpabio , the strong vision of Governor Godswill Akpabio whose government had adopted aviation as a core area of niche for the state had informed the training of our youth in various manpower areas in the industry.

Meanwhile, the Rector of NCAT, Captain Adebayo Araba represented by the deputy rector,  Henry Toluhi, lauded the efforts of the Akwa Ibom State Government in sponsoring its indigenes to the intensive studies in the college adding that the college was working assiduously to improve and expand its facilities and training capacity respectively.