The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), has advised state governors to appoint experts in the institute as transportation commissioners of
“If they don’t have experts, they won’t know how to convince the governor to make sure they have sufficient budget to do what needs to be done to upgrade our logistics performance index,” she advised.
According to her, the reduction in the cost of obtaining form will adversely affect the revenue of the institute but that the core of CILT is not profit making but the benefits to the target audience, “If you don’t empower the youth, then there is no point in us being here. What we are doing now is to create more opportunities for the youths. One of the things that we have done in this administration is that we have halved entry fees by 50 per cent for students because it is better for us to catch them when they are students, exposing them to the needs to understand logistics and transport in the economy of Nigeria.
“I will advise the incoming government that the governors should appreciate how crucial it is to invest in logistics and transport because they will come up with different projects but without logistics and transport, their projects cannot become realities
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