The Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Jelani Aliyu, has said private companies have invested N500billion into the automotive sector to set up assemble plants.
Aliyu made this known during the first NADDC quiz competition in Abuja, stating that the N500 billion would go a long way in setting up related factories for production and assembling of vehicles.
On the essence of the contest, Jelani explained that they partnered relevant authorities to get schools with the highest scores in the previous examination within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He said their role is to help develop the auto sector in terms of promotion of vehicles, transformation of Technology and skills upgrade.
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According to him,”The earlier we engage and support young Nigerians in primary and secondary schools to further understand automotive and technology world, the better we make the good decision to go into that field and study automotive engineering or design management.
“We believe that it important students start thinking and reading more on automotive, so they can choose a course in the automotive sector for national value addition’’.
The schools that participated in the contest are the Government Secondary School, Kuje, School of the Gifted, Gwagwalada, Pace Setters Academy and Faith Academy in Abuja.
Government Secondary School, Kuje took First position with 64 1/2 marks, School of the Gifted came second with 54 marks, Pace Setters Academy took the third with 53 marks while Faith Academy was fourth with 52 marks.