More than 6,000 employees of the Nigerian Railway Corporation have begun various training programmes aimed at repositioning the organisation.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the nine-week training programme was going on simultaneously in six centres across the country.
Opening the training programme on Wednesday in Lagos, the Managing Director of the corporation, Adeseyi Sijuwade, said that the course would enhance the workers’ career, promotion and knowledge base. He said that the federal government was determined to entrust a truly-rehabilitated rail transport industry in the hands of adequately-trained and well-motivated workers.
According to him, the training programmes became imperative in view of the corporation’s transition from manual to mechanised operation and maintenance. He also said that the training is aimed at inculcating proactive business policy and strengthening the knowledge base and capacity of the workforce.
The federal government, in 2009, began total rehabilitation of the existing 3,505km cape gauge rail network and gradual development of standard gauge rail across the country.