The Director-General, Centre for Management Development (CMD), Dr Kabir Usman in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, says Nigeria lacks skilled manpower to develop the country’s infrastructure.
Highlights:
- There was a huge gap in the areas of power, agriculture, construction and the likes in the country that needed to be filled.
- The mandate of the centre was to ensure standard training programmes that would boost capacity, proffer solutions to manpower shortage and thus develop infrastructure in the country.
- The centre would organise regular events for the public and private sectors to discuss areas of common interest, trends and current capacity building programmes.
- The CMD acts as a secretariat and we provide all the relevant background information to make/formulate policies, review policies and design policies for the country in areas of management education.
- The centre also conducts research in all aspect of management education in order to understand the Nigeria situation; to see where skills needs to be addressed, where there is shortage in skilled manpower and we proffer solutions.
- We have produced research reports, we produced interim reports, we are now analysing the data to produce a final report and it is that report that we are going to send to all the state governors.
- On recession, Usman stated that the country got out of recession due to the effect of the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). However, the ERGP was only a medium term plan, the private and public sectors had a role to play to fully get the country out of recession.
- That role includes provision of infrastructure, diversification of the economy, getting the right micro economic framework and also ensuring that there is prudence, frugality, transparency and accountability in the economy.
- We cannot deliver this plan without skilled manpower, so capacity is very important and that is why we must understand where there is need to build capacity so that we can deliver the dividends of democracy in that respect.
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