Dangote Cement Plc has launched a brand new Internship Scheme for college college students throughout the nation, providing a totally funded one-year internship program.
In line with the Dangote Cement Lagos Regional Gross sales Director, Mr. Tunde Mabogunje, throughout the induction of pioneer college students of Yaba Faculty of Know-how, Lagos, the scheme has been designed to supply sensible and hands-on-the-job expertise for glorious Engineering college students in increased establishments throughout Nigeria.
Mabogunje defined that the scheme was a part of Dangote Cement’s Company Social Duty (CSR) and it gives a singular alternative for engineering college students to use the data they’ve gained in lecture rooms and laboratories to real-world conditions. By combining their tutorial studying with sensible and on-field coaching, college students will emerge as well-rounded engineers.
“We’re kicking off this section of the scheme in Lagos and Kano States. A complete of 20 college students are concerned with 10 college students chosen from every of the 2 states. In choosing the interns, we wrote to the authorities of Yaba Faculty of Know-how and Kano Polytechnic requesting for the checklist of the perfect performing college students in Constructing Research.
“We’re to coach the chosen college students on the best utility of cement with particular reference to Dangote Cement in accordance with Normal Organisation of Nigeria (SON) prescriptions. The interns are to be deployed to varied constructing challenge websites whereas technical officers from Dangote Cement will probably be on the bottom to watch them,” Mobogunje stated.
The Dangote Cement boss identified that the challenge underscores the corporate’s perception that acquisition of vocational and technical abilities is important to the well-being of any sector specifically and the financial system as an entire.
“They’re very important prerequisite for progress. Nevertheless, dearth of vocational and technical abilities has had an antagonistic impact on the constructing sector. This internship programme is apt and a significant step in the best course in the direction of addressing the hole. As trainees acquire sensible subject expertise, they are going to be well-prepared to turn into well-rounded professionals and make vital contributions to the trade.
“At Dangote Group, we’re dedicated to offering vocational coaching to younger Nigerians to equip them with a variety of worthwhile abilities. To handle gaps in a few of our vegetation, we recruited graduates from engineering and technology-based programmes and skilled them in numerous features of business operations. These technicians have been subsequently deployed to our vegetation in Obajana, Ibese, Gboko, in addition to our sugar and salt refineries in Apapa and Ikeja. They’ve demonstrated that, with the best coaching and orientation, younger Nigerians excel in each project they undertake.
“For our oil refinery and fertiliser plant, we recruited a whole bunch of graduates of Engineering based mostly programs and despatched them overseas for coaching. This set of execs are actually operating the brand new vegetation and are coaching different units of engineers by ability switch.
“We offer vocational coaching programmes for our host communities. The youths are veritable property in any society and the standard of the youths determines the outlook of tomorrow’s society. Subsequently, an funding in growing vocational abilities amongst youths will yield the specified outcomes,” he acknowledged.
The Rector of Yaba Faculty of Know-how, Dr. (Engr.) Ibraheem Adedotun Abdul, in his comment, recommended Dangote Cement administration for the scheme, describing it as a landmark achievement in Company Social Duty.
He expressed happiness that Yaba Faculty of Know-how has been chosen as a pioneer establishment for the scheme and warranted that the taking part college students from the establishment would reside as much as expectations and the scheme will obtain its goal of bridging the hole between tutorial efficiency and sensible expertise.
The Rector identified that this system would expose the scholars to sensible features of their subject of research in order that once they completed college, they might have acquired the mandatory abilities that will make them take off as professionals with ease.
