By BASHIR ADEFAKA
A leading aviation and logistics company, Caverton Helicopters, has presented certificates to graduands who are successful in a one-year Helicopter Landing Officers (HLOs) training programme it did in partnership with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).
From Left-Right: Graduand, Muhammed Usman, Training Manager, Caverton Helicopters, Mrs. Ronke Ajala, Director of Corporate Services, Caverton Helicopters, Dr. Ayodele Omueti, Supervisor Monitoring and Evaluation, NCDMB, Emmanuel Abakpa, Managing Director, Caverton Helicopters, Captain lbrahim Bello, and Manager, Service Utilization, NCDMB, Mohammed Ahmed, during presentation of Certificates to Graduands trained by Caverton in collaboration with NDCMB at Caverton MRO Office, lkeja…on Thursday February 15th, 2024.
At the Training Close Out event held at the Caverton Helicopters Training Centre, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport office on Thursday 15th February 2024, representatives of the NCDMB, Mr. Muhammed Ahmed in his opening remarks, appreciated the Caverton for the brilliant job done on the candidates, who he said “are now clearly professionals to compete anywhere in the world.”
According to him, “We know that Caverton takes full responsibility when it comes to training of people. The whole idea of training is to close gaps in the oil and gas and other sectors including the aviation industry.”
The NCDMB official lauded Caverton for its commitment to quality training, while promising to take report of what he witnessed especially the experiences shared by the successful graduands back to the Board.
Advising the graduands, Ahmed said he can say bodily to say that the Board is clearly impressed by what Caverton has done to the trainees. “And to the trainees, I want to say that Caverton is an international brand. You should be able to sell yourselves to industries internationally and the sky will be your limit,” the manager representing the NCDMB said.
To qualify for the training, Ahmed said “What you need to do is to register on the Board’s Logic JQS portal as a Nigerian. The portal address is www.ncdmb.gov.ng”.
He said, “Currently, we have over a hundred thousand Nigerian graduates and non-gradiates registered under the database of the NCDMB. It is from that database that we pull Nigerians from, to have a selection test. They go through rigorous test and the ones that make the cut-off point of the different trainings are chosen for trainings like this.”
In his remarks, Managing Director of Caverton Helicopters, Captain Ibrahim Bello, recalled the excitement that the creation of NCDMB by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan brought, the result of which, according to him, came to be witnessed with the graduands being presented with certificates at the Thursday’s Training Close Out event.
Caverton’s Director of Corporate Services, Mr. Ayodele Omueti, expressed delight that the trainees, during the one year that they had opportunity of working with them, proved themselves worthy.
Omueti said it was heartwarming that his own generation had hope of good replacements in the newly trained candidates of the NCDMB.
“You have opportunity to work anywhere especially in the oil and gas and aviation sectors. We have done our side, NCDMB has done its own side, it is now for you to do your own side. The sky will be the limit as I wish you best of luck ending your training with us,” he said.
Highlights of the event also saw the trainees sharing their experiences gathered during the one year programme and presentation of certificates to them.
The graduands are; Stephen Paul Abah, Itoro Solomon, Jeremiah Adesenla-Ojo Muhammad Nura Adam and Muhammad Usman.
Speaking to the press on behalf of other graduands, Muhammad Usman, who described the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) as a human capital development and capacity building agency of government, said he and his mates got to Caverton at the instance of the Board, for the training as Helicopter Landing Officers (HLOs).
On what he and his mates were trained about, Usman said, “We were trained as HLOs, that is Helicopter Landing Officers. We were trained on how to take care of helicopter after landing, to park, board passengers and all the safety on it.
“We were also trained on how to marshall aircraft with the signs, to communicate with the pilot and all of that. I have many things to say about the wonderful training but only few can be shared here.”
Caverton Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) is a state of the art facility providing world class Technical support maintenance, repair and overall services for aircraft.
As a full service Caverton MRO, provides the required support and services to fix wing and rotary wing plus visiting business jets. It also extends her technical services to Third party aviation companies for all aircraft maintenance related support activities covering a wide range of aircraft engine types.
