NAPTIN Emerge ANCEE Centre of Excellence [2017]

Recently updated on January 18th, 2021 at 08:41 pm

The National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) has been conferred as a Centre of Excellence (COE) in training for the power sector in Africa after the assessment of its application by the African Network of Centres of Excellence in Electricity (ANCEE).

Consequently, NAPTIN has been granted admission into the membership of the African Network of Centres of Excellence in Electricity (ANCEE), a pan African initiative led by Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA) and supported by the African Development Fund of the African Development Bank Group.

NAPTIN’s acting Director General, Mr. Ahmed Bolaji Nagode, during the signing of a pact for the admittance at its headquarter in Abuja, said the conferment made the Institute the only CoE in West Africa and one of the eight power training centres in Africa.

NAPTIN is the only representative of the African Network of Centres of Excellence in Electricity (ANCEE) in West Africa and one of the eight training centres of the network in Africa.

Mr. Nagode also said the Institute was collaborating with the West African Power Pool (WAPP) to train workforce in the power sector of Liberia while APUA is sponsoring the training of 42 power workers of Ghana utility, and facilitate another for workers in the utility of Mali.

According to Mr. Nagode:

“We have the opportunity to train staff of power utilities in Africa in our training centres. Through this programme, we are going to equally realise foreign exchange in terms of selling our products to power utilities in Africa and APUA will definitely pay for these.”

The Director General of APUA, Dr. Abel Didier Tella, at the event confirmed the standards at NAPTIN saying:

“During the assessment, what we saw in Nigeria is farther than what we can imagine.”

Dr. Tella also noted that NAPTIN is unique among the eight CoEs in Africa, “because all other centres like those in Egypt, Tunisia, Ivory Coast and South Africa are all part of a utility firm, but NAPTIN is a standalone institute.”

He said with the admission into APUA, NAPTIN is now enabled to train power sector workers in French apart from English language with the first being workers in Ghana and Mali.

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