In effort to reduce unemployment rate in the state, Gov Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos-State, has reached agreement with Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria (BCAN), to employ 1000 graduates from different Universities as Bus Conductors.
Speaking with Vanguard, the National President of BCAN, Comrade Israel Ade Adeshola, also averred that the new policy of the state government under the current leadership of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is to give Bus Conducting profession a new look.
He said, “Presently Lagos state government through the Lagos State Drivers Institute, LASDRI is training and accrediting conductors in the state, adding that 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”.