No fewer than 21 young graduates from selected tertiary institutions across Nigeria have successfully undergone an intensive training programme in electro-mechanical-automation engineering in Switzerland. Having completed their course, they have all been offered full employment by Nestle Nigeria Plc, a co-initiator of the training. The training was organised under a cross border technical partnership between the governments of Nigeria and Switzerland with technical assistance from Nestle Plc. At the unveiling of five new graduates of the scheme in Abuja, Nestlé’s Managing Director and Chief Executive, Dharnesh Gordhon, explained that the students, who had just returned from Switzerland, went through an intensive 18-months theoretical and practical engineering training. Among the fresh graduates are: Enwerem Victor, Omosanya Abolaji, Adebayo Lukmon, Oluwaseyi Odebiyi and Ndubuisi Obeleagn. Gordhon, who was represented at the ceremony by Nestle’s Head, Human Resources, Sola Akinyosoye, said the students were coached based on the London City and Guilds curriculum for mechanical and electrical engineering, saying that the students had the opportunity to follow a rigorous internship at the organisation’s Product Technology Centre in Orbe and at the Nespresso factory in Switzerland. Meanwhile, Switzerland Ambassador to Nigeria, Hans-Rudolf Hodel, described the exercise as an initiative that was meant to broaden benefits derived from cross border migration, adding that, Henri Nestle, who founded the company, was a German immigrant to Switzerland, but today had attained a global brand as the largest food producer in the world. It would be recalled that the partnership agreement on vocational training between the Swiss Embassy and Nestle Nigeria was signed on October 31st 2011 during the official commissioning of the ultramodern Nestle Technical Training Centre in Agbara, Lagos.
Adapted from Daily Independent
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