The Secretary to the Government of
the Federation, Engineer BabachirDavid Lawal has assured the Governing Council
of the Institute of Directors (IOD) that his office would avail itself of the
training programmes of the Institute in the drive to build the human resource
capacity of the Civil Service, especially at the senior management level,
reports ITRealms.
Lawal said this while addressing the
council during a courtesy call, enjoining them to design courses that
will develop participants while on the job and also in
retirement.
The SGF noted that the institute has
been involved in the training of members of the Armed Forces and advised that
they should also design programmes that will benefit top officials of
government in revenue generating agencies such as Customs and Excise
and the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
President and Chairman of
Council, Institute of Directors, Mr. Yemi Akeju, in his
remarks, said the purpose of the visit to include the desire of the
Institute to partner with the federal government to promote corporate
governance values that will reduce corruption and also assist government to
review policies through well researched views and opinions.
Mr. Akeju also
used the occasion of the visit to inform the SGF about the official
adoption of a new IOD’s Independent Director’s Scheme.
He said these Independent
Directors could play vital roles on boards of public and
private sector organisations and pledged to make the register of
Independent Directors available for the use of the federal government.
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