… Tgnews MD, CEOs/ Directors of corporate and public organizations, Academics, individuals are set to be policy pacesetters
The prestigious National Institute of Policy and Strategy Studies (NIPSS), Kuru Jos was established in 1979 with the sole aim of serving as the Centre for Policy, Advocacy, Advice, and Training for Nigeria, West Africa, and Africa in the context of a dynamic and changing world is set to produce policy analysts, initiators, and managers.
NIPSS under its short course programs has drawn forty-three participants from all spheres of cadre, the discipline of both the public and private sectors to attend the forty-nine-course Policy Strategy and Leadership Course (PSLC)
The institution on Friday inducted the forty-three participants who were asked to be implementors, managers, pacesetters, and formulators of sound policies for the interest of all Nigerians.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of the General News (Tgnews), Tom Garba, a renowned online Media consulting firm in the North East, and other captains of industries and directors of corporate organizations were inducted to earn the PSLC certificates.
During the opening ceremony, the Director General of NIPSS, Prof Ayo Omotayo who was represented by the institution’s Director of Studies, Prof Funmi O J Paramalam told participants that the cardinal objective of the leadership course is to expand their horizons and understanding of policy matters.
According to her, the four-week course is also to stretch their understanding of leadership issues in governance and in the private sectors, improve their overall performance, and enhance their productivity in service delivery to the largest society.
While emphasizing the course is gender balanced with 63% of male participants and 47% female participants in attendance, Prof Paramalam opined that NIPSS amongst other things; Conducts courses for top-level policymakers and executors drawn from different sectors of the country, to expandstretchlook and perspectives and stretching their conceptual capacity and qualities of discernment and analysis, thereby helping to improve their overall performance in their different fields.
Paramalam reiterated that participants will get a wealth of experience on the issues of policy formation, analysis, and implementation with a cross-fertilization of ideas that will sharpen the country’s policy implementation and monitoring.
She however called on participants to take every part of the course seriously as there is going to be access to topical issues and the institution will also give much attention to the character and conduct of every participant.
The coordinator, directing staff of the institution, Air Vice Martial A. I Adamu, mni formally welcome the PSLC set of 49 and enjoined them to enjoy every experience and the serene environment of the institution.
The institution was well positioned to train very imminent Nigerians on the fast pace of change and national development in countries across the world, especially over the past three decades.
According to him, NIPSS has been driven by paradigm transitions towards “thinking globally and acting locally”. Successful national growth and development have therefore been accomplished under inherently deft, visionary, and people-oriented national policies and strategies.
He said the essence is to further explain that the Nigerian State had foreseen the need for qualitative input into the national policy-making process by 1979, hence The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS)) was established by Decree number 20 of 1979, now Cap N-51 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The Institute was conceived as a high-level institution with the primary objectives of serving as the nation’s foremost policy think-tank to develop a crop of top-class technocrats of high intellectual capacity, who will conceptualize and anchor the implementation of innovative and dynamic policy initiatives and strategies, critical for national development.
Over the years NIPSS has served as a high-level Centre for reflection, research, and dialogue where, academics of excellence, seasoned policy initiators and executors, and other citizens of mature experience and wisdom drawn from all walks of life, meet to reflect and exchange ideas on the great issues of society, particularly as they relate to Nigeria and Africa within the context of a constantly changing world.
Our Correspondent reports that the institute organizes and carries out on an interdisciplinary basis, indebt research into the social, economic, political, security, scientific, cultural, and other problems facing Nigeria, to contribute to the search for solutions.
“NIPSS Conducts seminars, workshops, and other action-oriented programs for leaders and potential leaders in the public service, the private sector, political organizations, professional bodies, and other groups, to promote promote promote definition for long-range national plans and objectives. And publishes books, journals, monographs, and other materials in the interest of the nation, as a contribution to knowledge and for a better national and international understanding.” He reported
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The vision of the institution to be an Apex Centre for policy, research, and reflection for a better Nigeria and human society was world-renowned scholars for week one of the program; Mr. Osime Samuel took course 49 on a briefing on report writing and presentation skills, writing policy papers and policy briefs modules.
While Public policy analysis, Policy Implementation, and resource imperativeness modules were well taken by Prof Amaya Adakai and Prof Fatai Aremu took participants on Policy Implementation strategies, and public policy: tracking monitoring and evaluation.
On Legal and institutional framework for policy formulation and implementation, erudite Lawyer and a Professor of high reputation, Prof C Dakas took the modules to the interest of all participants.
Dr Musa Umar,mni exposed the modules of fundamentals of public policy and policy process and public policy decision-making to the forty-three participants.
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