MINILS trains 250 civil servants in Akwa Ibom

The Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies has organized training workshop for some Akwa Ibom State civil servants on productivity and work ethics. The Director of the Institute, Dr. John Olanrewaju explained that the three-day workshop exposed the participants to the modern inner workings of government. He said: “We all know that the inner working of work arena is a dynamic and eye-changing arena, it is, therefore important that civil servants are exposed to these dynamic. Our overall aim is to also build their intellectual capacity for increase productivity. Civil servants need training and retraining just as it is done in the private sector”.

He added that the workshop was equally tailored towards changing the behavioral pattern of Akwa Ibom State civil servant and re-orientates them. The workshop was designed to crub negative effects of declining public sector productivity and achieve behavioral and attitudinal changes of the workforce, Olarenwaju said, was part of the intervention measures taken by the Akwa Ibom State Government for continuous relevance of the public service in governance of the state.

The three-day workshop attended by 250 participants drawn from the states ministries, departments and agencies exposed them to the meaning, nature and implications of productivity and related the increase in productivity to ethical moral and behavioral issues.

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The Director/Chief Executive of the Institute, Dr. John Niyi Olarenwaju at the opening session of the two-day workshop, government for its significant investment in capacity building of its workers. He said “there is no doubt that a well trained and sufficiently equipped Civil Service holds the key to accomplishing the lofty ideas and laudable programmes of state governments”.

In his address, the head of service, Kwara State, Alhaji Mohammed Dabarako informed the participants that the 2-day workshop was a vider to the Administration’s avowed commitment to training and retraining of civil servants for effective and efficient delivery. According to him, Human Resource Development as an Intergral part of Government, Ministry of Agency in the quest for high performance would not be realized without strengthening human and institutional capacity through adequate training and retraining of officers.

The head of service therefore called on organizations and professional bodies in the state to make the best use of the Institute, which he said, has all the facilities and was established by the Federal Government.

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The Director and Chief Executive of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) Ilorin, Dr. John Niyi Olanrewaju, have said that if the nation must develop, a conducive atmosphere must be created for the transformation of the country. He said this at the opening session of a two-day workshop for the officials of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) Workers held in the Institute, on 6th September, 2007.

According to him, all Nigerians should see themselves as stakeholders in the development of the country adding “A major subset of this broad experience is diffused in the entire union through the development of effective structure and the establishment of standard procedures”.