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Empowering the next generation of skilled technicians through comprehensive theory and hands-on technical training in Solar Energy, Electrical Installation, CCTV, Smart Home, Security Systems & more. ⚡🔧

Celebrating One of Our Own — Mr. Ezekiel Akpan 🎉❤️From the days of learning the trade and gaining practical experience t...
01/10/2026

Celebrating One of Our Own — Mr. Ezekiel Akpan 🎉❤️

From the days of learning the trade and gaining practical experience to building his own path, Mr. Ezekiel Akpan has come a long way.

Today, we are delighted to celebrate him as he begins another beautiful chapter of life with his dear wife.

Congratulations, Mr. Ezekiel Akpan, and congratulations to your wife! ❤️

As a former trainee of Cableway Engineering Academy, it gives us great joy to see our alumni growing, building their careers, becoming independent, and reaching important milestones in life.

This weekend, we join family and friends in celebrating your marriage and this beautiful new beginning.

May your home be filled with love, peace, understanding, friendship and many beautiful memories.

May you continue to grow together and build a home that brings you both joy and fulfilment.

Congratulations once again, Mr. Ezekiel Akpan and your dear wife. 🎉❤️

Wishing you both a happy and fulfilling married life.

Once a trainee, always part of the Cableway family. 🤝🏾

— Cableway Engineering Academy
Learn Skills. Build Confidence. Create Opportunities.

27/09/2026

DON'T COUNT THE YEARS. MAKE THE YEARS COUNT.

One thing every apprentice needs to understand:

The number of years you spend learning a trade does not automatically determine how much you will learn.

You can spend three years learning a trade and come out with three years of experience.

Or you can spend those same three years deliberately building yourself into a capable professional.

There is a difference.

Sometimes, an apprentice looks at the people ahead of him and thinks:

“They have been here longer than me. When they learn it, I will learn it too.”

Or:

“I still have plenty of time. I'll learn that later.”

Be careful with that mindset.

Your senior apprentice being ahead of you should not become a reason for you to remain behind.

If you have an opportunity to learn something today, learn it today.

If you don't understand something, ask.

If you haven't been given the opportunity to practise it, seek the opportunity.

If you make a mistake, learn from it.

If you see someone doing something you don't know how to do, don't just watch and move on.

Ask yourself:

“What can I learn from this?”

Your apprenticeship period is valuable.

Don't spend it simply waiting for the years to pass.

Use the time.

Challenge yourself.

Take responsibility.

Practise.

Ask questions.

Learn from people ahead of you.

And don't be afraid to learn something beyond what you think you are “supposed” to know at your current level.

Of course, experience takes time. You cannot replace years of exposure with enthusiasm alone.

But you can make every year of your training more valuable by being intentional about what you learn during that time.

So don't keep asking:

“How many years do I have left?”

Ask:

“How much can I become before my training is over?”

Because at the end of your apprenticeship, the calendar will tell us how long you stayed.

Your ability will tell us how well you used the time.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Learn Skills. Build Confidence. Create Opportunities.

🛠️ YOUR TOOLS ARE PART OF YOUR TRAININGIf you are learning a technical trade, there comes a point when you need to start...
18/09/2026

🛠️ YOUR TOOLS ARE PART OF YOUR TRAINING

If you are learning a technical trade, there comes a point when you need to start building your own toolkit.

Not because you are expected to buy everything at once.

But because you cannot depend on somebody else's tools forever.

As an apprentice, your tools are part of your learning.

When practical work starts, you should be able to reach for your own screwdriver, pliers, tester, measuring tape, multimeter, clamp meter and other basic tools required for the work you are learning.

It also changes the way you approach your training.

When you have your own tools, you are more prepared to practise.

You can repeat what you were taught.

You can try things under proper supervision.

You become familiar with your equipment.

And as you progress, you gradually build a professional toolkit that can serve you beyond your apprenticeship.

You don't have to buy everything in one day.

Start with the basic tools.

Then add to your collection as you progress and as your area of specialization becomes clearer.

If you are currently learning electrical, solar, CCTV, satellite or another technical skill and you don't have your basic tools yet, this is your reminder to start building your toolkit.

Don't wait until the day of practical training before you start looking for tools.

Prepare yourself before the opportunity comes.

Your training is not only about what your instructor provides.

You also have a responsibility to come prepared to learn.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Learn Skills. Build Confidence. Create Opportunities.

DON'T MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS BY THE PEOPLE AHEAD OF YOUOne mindset we sometimes see among trainees is this:“I still have ...
18/09/2026

DON'T MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS BY THE PEOPLE AHEAD OF YOU

One mindset we sometimes see among trainees is this:

“I still have time.”

“I just started.”

“Those people have been here longer than me.”

“I'll learn that when I get to their level.”

And sometimes, without realizing it, a trainee begins to measure his own progress by the progress of the people ahead of him.

If the senior apprentice doesn't understand something yet, he feels comfortable not understanding it either.

If the person ahead of him hasn't learned a particular skill, he doesn't feel the need to pursue it.

If he still has another year or two left in his training, he tells himself:

“There's still time.”

But there is a problem with this way of thinking.

Your training period is a time available to you. It is not a limit placed on how much you can learn.

Two people can spend three years learning the same trade and come out with completely different levels of knowledge and practical ability.

One person may spend those three years waiting for instructions, doing only what he is told and watching others work.

Another may use those same three years to ask questions, study, practise, take responsibility, learn from mistakes and deliberately seek to understand things beyond what he has already been shown.

They both spent three years.

But they did not use the three years in the same way.

So, as an apprentice, don't look at someone ahead of you and say:

“I'll learn that when I get there.”

If you have the opportunity to learn it now, learn it now.

If something is difficult, don't use the fact that you are still a junior as an excuse to avoid it.

Ask questions.

Study it.

Watch carefully.

Practise.

Try again.

And if someone ahead of you doesn't understand something yet, that doesn't mean you cannot try to understand it.

Your senior's limitation should not become your personal ceiling.

At the same time, don't compare yourself with others just to feel ahead or behind.

Measure yourself by your own growth.

Ask yourself:

What could I not do six months ago that I can do now?

What do I understand today that I didn't understand before?

What skill am I deliberately working to improve?

That's a much healthier way to look at your training.

Your apprenticeship may be two years.

It may be three years.

It may even be longer.

But don't spend those years simply waiting for your training period to pass.

Use the time you have.

Your commitment to learning can take you much further than simply counting the years.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Learn Skills. Build Confidence. Create Opportunities.

DON'T JUST LEARN HOW TO DO IT. LEARN WHY.One of the easiest ways to learn a trade is to watch someone who knows the job ...
15/09/2026

DON'T JUST LEARN HOW TO DO IT. LEARN WHY.

One of the easiest ways to learn a trade is to watch someone who knows the job and copy what they do.

You watch.

You repeat.

You eventually get used to the process.

And after some time, you may even become very fast at it.

But there is a problem.

What happens when the situation changes?

What happens when the equipment is different?

When the customer's building is different?

When the expected result doesn't happen?

When the method you have always copied doesn't work?

This is where the difference between following a procedure and understanding the work becomes very important.

A good apprentice should not be satisfied with knowing:

“This is how my master does it.”

The better question is:

“Why is it done this way?”

Why is this cable size being used?

Why is this protection device installed here?

Why is the panel positioned this way?

Why is this inverter setting selected?

Why did that reading change?

Why did the system behave differently from what we expected?

Those questions may seem small, but they are what move you from copying the work to understanding the work.

And that is a major part of becoming a good technician.

At Cableway Engineering Academy, we want our students to ask questions.

Don't be afraid to ask why.

Don't just memorise the steps.

Understand the reason behind the steps.

Because when you understand what you are doing, you are better prepared to handle situations you have never seen before.

And that is important in technical work.

Your goal should not be to become a good copy of the person training you.

Your goal should be to become a technician who understands the work well enough to think for himself.

Learn the procedure.

Understand the principle.

Practise the skill.

Then learn to apply it to different situations.

That's when practical training starts becoming real professional development.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Learn Skills. Build Confidence. Create Opportunities.

WHO SAID LEARNING A TRADE IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SMART?There is a mindset many of us grew up with.If a child is doing...
13/09/2026

WHO SAID LEARNING A TRADE IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SMART?

There is a mindset many of us grew up with.

If a child is doing well in school, the expectation is:

“Send him to school. He will become a professional.”

But if the child is struggling academically, people sometimes say:

“Let him go and learn handwork.”

As if learning a trade is the last option for someone who could not succeed in school.

At Cableway Engineering Academy, we don't see it that way.

Learning a trade is not a consolation prize.

It is learning a profession.

And many of the technical trades we have today require much more than the ability to use your hands.

Take solar installation, for example.

You need to understand voltage and current. You need to calculate system sizes. You need to select the right cables and protective devices. You need to read equipment specifications. You need to configure inverters and charge controllers. You need to prepare quotations. You need to communicate with clients.

And as technology continues to advance, the knowledge required from a good technician will continue to increase.

So the question should not be:

“Did you go to school or did you learn handwork?”

The better question is:

“What can you do? What do you understand? What problems can you solve?”

Someone can have a university education and still need practical skills.

Someone can be a very good technician and still need to improve their reading, writing, mathematics and business knowledge.

There is no shame in either.

The real danger is believing that once you start learning a trade, you no longer need to learn anything else.

That mindset will limit you.

If you are an apprentice today, don't see yourself as someone who couldn't make it in school.

See yourself as someone learning a profession.

Take it seriously.

Improve yourself.

Read.

Calculate.

Ask questions.

Understand the equipment you are working with.

Learn how to communicate.

Learn how to solve problems.

And keep educating yourself.

Because the goal of practical training is not simply to produce somebody who can use tools.

The goal is to help develop someone who can think, understand, create, install, troubleshoot and solve real problems.

That is a much bigger responsibility—and a much bigger opportunity.

This is the mindset we want to encourage in every student and apprentice who passes through Cableway Engineering Academy.

Learn Skills. Build Confidence. Create Opportunities.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Training Division of Cableway Engineering Company Ltd

11/09/2026

BEFORE YOU INSTALL A SOLAR PANEL, YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO MOUNT IT PROPERLY. ☀️🛠️

This was one of our students' first workshop practical sessions on solar panel installation.

We used two panels inside the training hall to demonstrate the mounting process.

They were shown how to measure the panels, position the aluminium rails correctly, and install the mid-clamps and end-clamps.

Since practical training is also about knowing what to do when everything you need is not readily available, we also looked at how to customise a simple end clamp from a short piece of aluminium rail.

The students didn't just watch the demonstration.

They were learning how to think through the installation and work with the materials available.

That's what practical training is about.

Learn the method. Understand the reason. Then do the work yourself.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Training Division of Cableway Engineering Company Ltd.

08/09/2026

DON’T JUST WATCH THE INSTRUCTOR. DO IT YOURSELF. 🛠️📡

In practical training, watching someone do the job is only the beginning.

You need to pick up the tools and do it yourself.

During this satellite TV practical session, I first demonstrated how to mount the dish mast, drill and fix the base, and install the reflector.

Then the students took over.

They had to do the work themselves.

Because the goal is not just to know how a satellite installation is done.

The goal is to develop the confidence and practical skill to actually do it.

That is the kind of learning we believe in at Cableway Engineering Academy.

Learn it. Practise it. Do it.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
Training division of Cableway Engineering Company Ltd.

05/09/2026

BEFORE THE WIRING STARTS, THE WORK HAS ALREADY STARTED. ⚡🛠️

When you're working on a commercial or industrial electrical installation, you don't just arrive and start connecting wires.

There is preparation to do.

Materials have to be identified, handled and moved to where they will be needed.

In this project, our apprentices were part of that process as we prepared materials for an electrical wiring job at a filling station.

It's a simple part of the work, but it teaches an important lesson:

Good installation starts with good preparation.

And that's part of what practical training is about—learning not only how to do the installation, but how to work properly from the moment you arrive at the site.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
The training division of Cableway Engineering Company Ltd.

Interested in practical electrical training?

📞 +234 903 658 7137
📍 5 Chubb Road, Ikot Ekpene

03/09/2026

BEFORE YOU DRILL THAT WALL, KNOW YOUR MACHINE. 🛠️

A drilling machine may look simple, but there are things a technician needs to understand before using one.

During our Satellite TV Installation class, we looked at both cordless and corded drilling machines.

We went through things like fitting the bit, forward and reverse, speed and torque settings, and when to use the different modes.

We also looked at different types of drill bits and what they are used for.

Then the students picked up the machines and practised what they had just learnt.

Because when you're doing installation work, the tools are part of the skill.

Don't just know the job.

Know your tools too.

🎓 Cableway Engineering Academy
The training division of Cableway Engineering Company Ltd.

Address

5 Chubb Road
Ikot Ekpene
530101

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 17:00
Thursday 08:00 - 17:00
Friday 08:00 - 17:00
Saturday 12:00 - 17:00

Telephone

08023243189

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