Foremost Nigeria’s engineering construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has graduated a second batch of trainees from its Plant and Equipment Academy in Abuja.

The event was described as a celebration of another key mileage in the company’s consistency of purpose and proactive contribution to the country’s industrial and technological development and industrial advancement.

Speaking at the event held last Thursday, the representative of the Managing Director, the company’s Executive Director of Administration, Zubairu Ibrahim Bayi, described the event as a “proud and worthy event in the history of Julius Berger”.

Bayi said the idea as well as the well-focused and consistent implementation of the Julius Berger Plant and Equipment Academy remains a legacy contribution by the company to the transfer of critically needed technical know-how and skills to assist the country’s technological and industrial development needs.

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He stated that the Academy was also conceptualised to empower selected artisans with further productive technical skills for reliable industrial development and contribution to nation-building.

While the first set of graduands from the Academy were trained in Combustion Engines and Drive Trains, the second set of graduands were trained in Basic Electricity and Automotive Application.

From the six trainees who graduated from the Academy’s first set in 2022, the number of trainees who graduated from the Julius Berger Plant and Equipment Academy last Thursday increased to eight.

The ceremony which had the ‘Best graduating Student‘ being awarded a special prize for his brilliant results, also saw the graduands collectively presenting an electrical project made by their graduating class.

The Star