Nigeria’s Head of Service Partners with Foundation On Leadership Programme

The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, in partnership with the AIG-Imoukhuede Foundation, has organised a two-day Senior Leaders’ Programme for all Federal Permanent Secretaries and Permanent Secretaries-Designate.

The training is part of the relentless efforts of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan to provide the requisite leadership skills for the Service.

The Director Press, Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Ahmed Mohammed in a statement said the training is also expected to provide the needed force to propel and reposition the Federal Civil Service as an initiator and a major driver of policies, projects and programmes of the Federal Government.

According to him, the training Programme is being facilitated by Resource Persons from the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, London, the United Kingdom in collaboration with faithful partnerships with the World Bank, the United Kingdom for International Development under its Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn, PERL, Programme and the European Union via its Support for Federal Government Reforms Programme, amongst others.

It is expected that at the end of the 2-day Training Sessions, transformative coaching that combines deep expertise with analytical thinking and practical skills will be delivered to the Chief Administrative and Accounting Heads of the various MDAs to address real-life policy challenges toward ensuring service delivery and good governance for the teaming Nigerian population.