The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria CIPMN has announced that unlicenced project managers caught overseeing projects in Nigeria would be sanctioned.
The Registrar of the Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria, Mr Henry Mbadiwe announced this during a media briefing in Abuja Nigeria’s capital.
He said law establishing CIPMN states that everyone within the public and private sectors who heads, leads, or teaches any aspect of project management in Nigeria must be licensed to practise the profession.
According to him, “CIPMN will move past administration changes and their limitations and begin to enforce our Establishment Act, we will take it up with all projects embarked on in Nigeria, where the law requires that those leading these projects be professional project managers licensed by CIPMN.”
“Our enforcement will start in earnest in the first quarter of 2025. Please get in touch with us via our website, www.cipmn.gov.ng and let’s work together to ensure we build a better Nigeria.
“For those who have international qualifications in Project management, whether PRINCE 2 or APM from the UK or PMP from PMI in the US, the law has made it clear that you have to regularise and get your practising license from CIPMN to practice.
“This is Nigeria, not America, China, or the United Kingdom. The law operating in Nigeria must be obeyed without compromise,” he emphasised.
Mr Mbadiwe revealed that project management sector is committed to upholding the law, ensuring that all project managers are licensed and accountable for their actions.
“We will pursue any member practising project management in Nigeria without the CIPMN license and every institution encouraging its members to ignore the law establishing CIPMN in Nigeria.
“We will pursue every organisation, whether local or international, operating in Nigeria that has individuals leading projects in Nigeria without the CIPMN license as required by law, and we will definitely hold ourselves to the highest possible standards in Nigeria and ensure that the regulation of this sector is done dispassionately without prejudice.”
He added that CIPMN is ready to collaborate with foreign project management bodies operating in Nigeria.
