The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says the authority would soon commence the recruitment of younger professionals into the service in view of its ageing workforce.
Speaking at a news conference to round off her ongoing tour of Calabar port, which ended on Friday, the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, on Friday, said the authority would soon commence the recruitment of younger professionals into the service in view of its ageing workforce.
According to her, “there is a lot of skills and knowledge that need to be transferred and we should be able to transfer knowledge and skills.”
She said the authority would embark on recruitment drive and look at the organisational structure to determine how the recruitment would be carried out, adding that the management was looking at succession planning and recruitment of people.
“We met an arrangement on ground concerning the decision to recruit as the present workforce is ageing. We want to recruit specialists, mariners, critical operational staff. These are those positions that we will be targeting.
“We encourage every member of the public to be on the look-out for the advertisement of vacancies and to apply," the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes Ms. Usman as saying.