The DG’s Message
The Power Sector in Nigeria is currently undergoing massive restructuring by the Government of Nigeria. Needless to say, power development is the bedrock or engine upon which the development of the country is to be propelled for a sustainable economic growth.
Three key inputs into electricity production and supply are physical infrastructure, fuel and skilled personnel. Of these three, skilled personnel is the most important as without it the other two cannot be realized and effectively utilized.
Some of the best-run electric utilities in the world are constantly engaged in trying to find the optimum combination of technology and human intervention in order to provide reliable and affordable electricity service to the consumers.
In Nigeria, PHCN and its successor companies constitute about 90% of the entire Power Sector personnel. A large proportion of these workforces are either unskilled or at best semi-skilled.
The inability of the sector to meet the needs of the country has been attributed to several factors including:-
- Aging power assets
- Huge supply deficit (long period of generation capacity stagnation)
- High human capacity development deficiencies
This lack of adequate capacity building in the Power Sector has led to deficiencies in skilled personnel in generation, transmission and distribution and also in the areas of management of regulatory and policy framework.
With this realization, the Federal Government of Nigeria has established NAPTIN and strategically positioned it to provide the ever needed and lacking capacity building and skills development for the growing Nigeria Power Sector and beyond in the long term.
At NAPTIN we offer world-class Training a as we strive to maintain the highest standards within the dynamic and evolving Power Sector. The courses and training are designed and tailored to directly meet your to current technical, business, managerial and commercial operations capacity skills development with emphasis on "best practices" world-wide.
I welcome you to the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN), the ……..“power trainer with a difference
