Nigeria: CIPMN, Ministry to Train Civil Servants On Project Management

By Philip Shimnom Clement

The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs have commenced plans to train civil servants across the country on project management.

This was disclosed when the Institute's Registrar General and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Mbadiwe led his team to confer on the Minister, Zaphaniah Jisalo and the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Onwusoro Ihemelandu, fellow awards of the Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria at the Ministry headquarters in Abuja yesterday

Speaking shortly after the conferment, the Permanent Secretary, who spoke in the absence of the Minister, said the training will equip civil servants well and place them in good standing by enhancing their capacity in project management and delivery and reduce abandoned projects across the country.

"We can do project management upscaling across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria but starting from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

"The Permanent Secretaries at the Federal and state levels will be the first beneficiaries of the CIPMN training, followed by Directors, then every civil servant across the 774 local governments of Nigeria.

"For us in the Ministry, we are inter-governmental, so, in our engagement with our sub-nationals, which are states and local governments, we will try to carry the Institute along in our conferences and stakeholders' engagements.

The Permanent Secretary further urged the council to convene a stakeholders' forum to bring MDAs on board, noting that some of the major challenges facing the system include inadequate expertise in project costing and the volatility of the naira.

Earlier, the CIPMN Registrar General and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Mbadiwe, said the institute is out to ensure that its mandates are carried in all nooks and cranies of the country .

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