BY DAYO ADESULU

IN compliance with the agreement reached between the Dangote conglomerates and Lagos State to encourage youths in the industrial drive of the economy, Dangote is set to employ 200 graduates of Technical Colleges in Lagos.

The recruits, most of whom are in their final year in Government Technical Colleges across Lagos, wrote the National Business and Technical Examinations Board(NABTEB) exams last weekend at the Government Technical College, Ikorodu and Agidingbi centres.

Speaking with journalists at Ikeja, the Executive Secretary, Lagos State Technical and Vocational Examinations Board (LASTVEB), Engr Olawumi Gasper said:

“What we are doing today with the Lagos State Government and Dangote group is to recruit our students of technical colleges first in accordance with the agreement with Governor Raji Fashola to encourage the youths in the industrial drive of the economy. This is the first step.”

According to him, Lagos State Government went into an agreement with the Dangote conglomerates who requested for the young ones to take up responsibility in the technical, maintenance services.
His words:   “About 250 students are writing this exam and we are sure of 80 per cent of them being employed by the company. The result will be out this May after which they will be employed and that is the beginning of a career path for them.

”Once the students are considered for employment, they will be sponsored by the same company on 18 months training to Dangote Academy, Obajana in Kogi State and Osogbo in Osun State to brush them up.
‘They will be remunerated based on their areas of specialisation such as instrumentation and automation, this is a big opportunity for them.

“Dangote is just one out of so many industries that are demanding for the graduates of technical colleges because they believe in their skills, we are now being saddled with the responsibility of producing more of them to meet industrial demand.”