About 200 newly trained engineers and other professionals have been inducted into the work force of Dangote Cement Plc .
This follows the successful completion of its Graduate Trainee Programme, reaffirming the company’s commitment to job creation, skills development, and local capacity building in Nigeria.
Dangote Cement in a statement said :”the trainees, drawn from various engineering, finance, IT and other disciplines, were formally inducted over the weekend after completing an intensive 18 month training programme which entails both classroom and on-the-job learning was conducted at Dangote Academy and across the four plants locations in Nigeria and the head office.”
The graduate trainees programme is a structured development journey designed to groom high potential professionals for future leadership roles through cross functional exposure, classroom instruction, executive mentorship, and hands on project execution.
During the programme, the trainees were deployed across Dangote Cement’s plants and operational locations, where they acquired practical industry experience and benefited from the mentorship of seasoned professionals within the organisation.
The company noted that several of the trainees have since been integrated across its cement operations in Nigeria and other African countries. Dangote Cement stated that the induction of the engineers reflected its sustained commitment to providing meaningful employment opportunities and strengthening indigenous technical expertise across its operations.