FRSC boss, Caleb University VC, others set for NAJA workshop

The second edition of the Nigerian Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) training and capacity building workshop is billed to hold from June 8 to 9, 2017, in Ajah, Lagos.
At this year’s event, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, and the Vice Chancellor, Caleb University, Prof. Diji Aina, would be delivering papers on critical automotive industry issues.
Also expected at the event are Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Anofiu Olarewaju Elegushi, and other stakeholders.
While the FRSC boss would be taking a look at “Decade of Action on Road Safety: The Gains, The Pains’’, the Vice Chancellor would be speaking on “The Political Economy of Nigerian Automotive Industry Crises: Outsider Perspective.”
The annual event, with Ford Motor Corporation as lead sponsor, is aimed at updating Nigerian motoring journalists, drawn from the print, electronic and online media, with the basic knowledge, practical details and recent developments in the local and global automotive industry. Coscharis Motors is the sole franchisee of the Ford brand in Nigeria.
Commenting on the workshop, the vice chairman of NAJA and head of the organising committee, Mike Ochonma, said the event could not have come at a better time than now when the country’s automotive industry is at a cross-roads.
In his remarks, chairman of NAJA, Frank Kintum, described the annual workshop as a means of continuously updating the knowledge of journalists covering the automotive sector.