The president and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM), Olusegun Mojeed, has pledged to support the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) to reposition the civil service.
Mojeed gave the pledge during a visit to the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission Professor Tunji Olaopa in Abuja.
He said the CIPM will provide resources, expertise, and collaboration to facilitate the seamless implementation of the professional certification directive to empower civil servants.
He said: “The impacts of the CIPM on the Human Resource landscape in Nigeria have been profound and transformative. Through our rigorous certification processes, extensive education and training programmes, and unwavering commitment to professional development, we have cultivated a cadre of HR professionals who exemplify the highest standards of competence and integrity.
“Moreover, I am pleased to announce that the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management has a nationwide reach, operating in 28 States of the Federation, and two Branches in the United Kingdom and Canada. The CIPM Europa and the CIPM, United States are loading.
“Our Branches and Chapters strategically cover the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, facilitating accessibility and engagement with HR professionals across the nation. We currently boast of over 20,000 individual and corporate members and remain steadfast in our commitment to developing and maintaining high standards of professional competence.”
Chairman of Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Professor Tunji Olaopa, on Tuesday, disclosed the findings of an ongoing rapid assessment which aimed at reforming the country’s federal civil service.
Olaopa emphasized the need to raise the bar of human capital development (HCD) and human resource management (HRM) practices in the public sector which aligns with the objectives of CIPM.
He said: “Based on the charge of president Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu, I have initiated a rapid assessment that I like should inform a baseline set of reform ideas for purposes of rolling out the FCSC reform program which will in turn be harnessed to troubleshoot the ongoing reform of the federal bureaucracy.
“All with a view to reforming the past and ongoing reforms, and strengthening cum consolidating them in order for us to be in a position to ignite required systemic shifts to birth a generations of public managers imbued with intellectual substance, work culture, incentives, professionalism and a reinvented culture of accountability required to operate in the now volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) globalized policy space in which the renewed hope agenda of the FGN will have to catapult Nigeria until greatness.”
