Lagos state goverment to employ 1000 graduate as bus conductor

Saturday, October 29
TILB Staff at 10/29/2016 01:01:00 pm
Lagos state govt to employ 1000
graduates as Bus Conductors
The National President of the Bus Conductors
Association of Nigeria, BCAN, Comrade Israel
Ade Adeshola through the Lagos State ministry
of transportation said it would employ 1000
graduates from different Universities as Bus
Conductors.
Comrade Adeshola in an interview with
Vanguard also disclosed that the new policy of
the Lagos state government under the
leadership of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is
collaborating with the association to give Bus
Conducting profession a new look..
According to him, “presently Lagos state
government through the Lagos State
Drivers Institute, LASDRI is training and
accrediting conductors in the state,
adding that after the training the
graduands would be employed as Bus
Conductors and would be on the payroll
of the government with a salary worth of
N50,000 per month.
“The objective is to make the job of bus
conducting attractive, respected and
dignified as obtainable globally”, he said.
Adeshola explained that there is a
project in the pipeline by the state
government to change the face of
transportation system to enhance
security and also provide employment
opportunity in the state.
Speaking on the vision of the association, he
said, since the establishment in 2008, it has
been working relentlessly with the federal
government through the national assembly as
well as some state governments to establish its
presence.by chibabynaija1