The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has expressed its readiness to partner with the Nigeria Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) for effective training and capacity development of its personnel.
Hassan Bello, the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Council disclosed this in Lagos when he received the officials of NITT led by its Director General, Dr. Aminu Yusuff who paid him a courtesy call in Lagos.
Bello who said the capacity building was instrumental to the development of the nation’s maritime industry, called for signing of Memorandum of Understanding between both parties.
According to him, maritime were knowledge driven institution and hence the need for the maritime industry to be driven by personnel in specialized transport and other related fields.
He, however, commended the effort made so far by the institute noting that it had trained large number of professionals in the transport sector of the economy.
His words, “The two institutions are knowledge driven. What we need to do is to get the required knowledge because it is the knowledge that drives the industry and so many mistakes have been made due to lack of knowledge.
“But the choices we have for the industry are limited and we cannot afford to make such mistakes. Therefore, we have to patronize this fountain of knowledge called NITT’’.
The NSC as Economic Port Regulator, he said, was to make Nigeria a regional maritime hub in African sub region.
Earlier, the Director General of NITT, Dr. Aminu Yusuff called for more patronage and support by sponsoring its workforce on short and long term professional and continuous skill development programmes of the institute.
The NITT boss who, commended the NSC for its meaningful contributions to the nation’s maritime sector, said more development was still expected if both institutions agree to come together.
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