Lagos Set To Employ 1000 Graduates As Bus Conductors

The National President of the Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria, BCAN, Comrade Israel Ade Adeshola has disclosed that the association is set to employ 1000 graduates through the Lagos State ministry of transportation,Vanguard reports.

Adeshola who noted that the graduates would be from different Universities across the country added that the new policy of the Lagos state government is collaborating with the association to give bus conducting profession a new look.

In his words, he said: “presently Lagos state government through the Lagos State Drivers Institute, LASDRI is training and accrediting conductors in the state.

”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”, Adeshola noted.

He buttressed that this is part of the state government project to change the face of the transportation system to enhance security and also provide employment opportunity in the state.