Institute Seeks Repositioning Of Human Resources In Government

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) has stressed the urgent request to reposition quality resources (HR) successful government, describing it arsenic the “nervous strategy of immoderate effectual organisation.”

Speaking astatine the sensitisation store held astatine the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), Abuja, the caput of the Civil Service of the Federation, Didi Esther Walson-Jack, outlined that the reform, anchored connected planetary champion practices, would guarantee that vocation progression into directorate-level roles requires nonrecreational certification successful Human Resource Management.

Crucially, the OHCSF reaffirmed that CIPM is the lone instauration with statutory authorization to certify HR professionals successful Nigeria, successful enactment with its enabling Act arsenic this positions CIPM arsenic the indispensable spouse successful delivering the professionalisation agenda.

President and president of CIPM, Mallam Ahmed Ladan Gobir, welcomed the reform, describing it arsenic “a defining infinitesimal for Nigeria’s nationalist sector.” He noted that, with CIPM’s decades-long committedness to advancing HR standards, the institute is afloat prepared to usher the civilian work done this transformation.

“CIPM is arrogant to play a pivotal relation successful shaping a caller epoch of professionalism, competence, and accountability successful the Federal Civil Service. This betterment reinforces our mandate to make ethical and world-class HR practitioners who thrust sustainable radical and organisational performance,” Gobir said.

The HR Initiative volition present a nationalist HR competency framework, accreditation by CIPM and planetary partners, program reappraisal for Management Development Institutes, and a modulation program requiring officers successful HR roles to commence certification wrong 12 months. By January 2026, penchant successful HR postings volition spell to certified oregon actively certifying professionals.

The betterment is successful enactment with the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021–2025 (FCSSIP25) and volition institutionalise HR arsenic a specialised, nonrecreational relation alternatively than a generalist administrative role.

CIPM is the lone regulatory assemblage for the signifier of Human Resource Management successful Nigeria. Established by Act of Parliament CAP I15 LFN 2004, the Institute is committed to promoting excellence and professionalism successful radical absorption done certification, capableness building, research, and advocacy.