NIM to deepen entrepreneurial, innovative skills

By Michael Eboh

Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM, has announced plans to promote entrepreneurial and innovative skills among youths in the country, with its proposed industrial park.
Speaking at a press briefing to announce its forthcoming Annual Management Conference, Mr. Nelson Uwaga, President and Chairman of Council, NIM, said the park will be fashioned after the University of Cambridge model and will lead to the empowerment of large number of youths.

He explained that government at all levels would be required to send youths from all parts of the country to the park to imbibe skills that will make them contribute meaningfully to job creation and national development.

He said, “The Institute decided to lead the way in getting the nation out of the quagmire it has found itself because it believes that the task of getting the country up and running should not be left to government alone; it is a collective responsibility that can only be achieved with commitment, attitudinal change and redefinition of our national ethos and values.

“All hands must, therefore, be on deck if Nigeria must rise and shine again. I therefore, want to seize this opportunity  to call on other well meaning corporate organisation and individuals to take a cue from the initiative of the institute and join the battle to salvage the country.

“It is by synergizing with government in our individual and several capacities that we can all help to forge the Nigeria of our dreams.
He further stated that the institute will not relent in its quest to bequeath a well-trained and productive workforce on the nation.

“We will not be tired until mismanagement, maladministration, corruption and other social vices which have hampered Nigeria’s development are completely exterminated from our body polity,” he explained.

Uwaga said the conference, scheduled to hold between the September 21 and 23, 2014, in Warri, Delta State, has as its theme: ‘Strengthening the institutions of nationhood: The challenges of management.’

Culled from: http://www.vanguardngr.com