The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Coscharis Motors Plc, Stallion Motors Nigeria Limited, Jet Systems Limited and Weststar Associates Ltd are among the leading stakeholders in the automotive industry supporting this year’s training/capacity building workshop for journalists to be held in Lagos.

This year’s event, scheduled for August 25, in Lagos, with the theme, Fuel subsidy removal: ‘Autogas/Electric vehicles as alternatives’ is being organised by the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA).

Expected at the workshop is Director-General, NADDC, Jelani Aliyu, who is the guest of honour.

In the past few years, Aliyu has been in the driver’s seat of the adoption of autogas and electric vehicles as an alternative to fossil fuel. Guest speaker, Chairman of the National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP), Mohammed Ibrahim, will speak on the workshop’s topic. Workshop facilitators include Yusuf Jimoh Aweda and Wisdom Elijah.

Aweda will speak on ‘Role of new media in automotive industry reportage’ while Elijah will provide insight on, ‘Autogas/electric vehicle as alternative amid fuel subsidy removal’.

The training is aimed at equipping motoring journalists with the necessary skills in Nigeria’s automotive industry and globally.

Chairman, NAJA, Mike Ochonma, said that the two very critical themes chosen for the workshop were predicated on their crucial importance to Nigeria’s automotive industry, adding that it is imperative for journalists covering the automotive sector to be in sync with the latest happenings, especially at this point, when many Nigerians need alternatives, following the removal of subsidy on petrol.