The National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) says it has trained power sector officials in over 20 countries to boost the delivery of electricity in the West African nations and beyond.
The institute’s Director-General, Ahmed Nagode said this in Lagos on Sunday.
Nagode said that some of the benefited West African countries included Ghana, Liberia, Benin and among others.
He also said that the training was sponsored by West African Power Pool (WAPP) and Association of Power Utilities in Africa (APUA).
According to him, NAPTIN collaboration with NERC has been encouraging, effective and result oriented.
“We jointly reviewed and updated the curricular of Training in Meter Installation and Safety Programmes in line with approved safety codes and meter codes.
“With the official regulatory orders issued on the two. We are also working on updating curriculum in electrical system operation.
“We also patented in designing and developing a Manpower Audit and baseline for staffing in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI),” the DG added.
Nagode, however, commended the Federal Government’s support to NAPTIN with the Agence Française de Development (AFD) facility to build training infrastructure like workshop, simulators, hostel and rehabilitation of its Centres.
He said with such facility would be developing additional courses and institutional upgrade and change management or corporate governance.
Nagode also said that there was need for enabling laws and consolidated training fund.
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