It is one organisation I count as a partner in the struggle for transforming the public service system in Nigeria.
In this regard, one must applaud the existing achievement and experiential framework of the preceding presidents, and especially the administrative and visionary efforts of Mr. Olusegun Mojeed, the immediate past president of CIPM, for a most remarkable tenure filled with spirited strides, innovations and commendable achievements and legacies.
This becomes auspicious because it immediately signals to the chairman the crosscutting dimension of the partnership and collaboration that are demanded of the community of service and community of practice — the Nigerian civil service leadership, the CIPM, and the larger public administration community — in institutionally reforming the Nigerian bureaucracy, and inserting its strategic and operational dynamics and processes into the current global trends in HR thinking.
In linking the President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda to the urgency of public service institutional renewal and reform, therefore, it becomes fundamental to conclude that the quality of democratic governance can only be directly proportional to the degree to which policy and managerial intelligence can be matched by dogged political will to commit to a radical transformation of the political service system through a rehabilitation of HR functions and processes in the workplace of the MDAs.
The Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State led by Tony Okocha has rejected the judgment of the Rivers State High Court, which was delivered, yesterday, by Justice Sika Aprioku, sacking the seven-man committee.