SGF Urges CEOs In Public Service To Uphold Professional Excellence

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume, has urged Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of national authorities agencies to uphold the highest standards of accountability, transparency, and integrity successful the show of their duties, stressing that enactment successful the nationalist work is simply a ineffable spot exercised connected behalf of the Nigerian people.

Akume made this known astatine the opening ceremonial of the 13th Cohort of the Mandatory Training Programme ( MTP) for main enforcement officers of national agencies, organised by the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) successful Badagry.

He stated that the CEOs were appointed based connected their way records and are expected to assistance thrust the president’s imaginativeness of rebuilding and repositioning Nigeria done effectual governance and organization reform.

“Leadership successful the nationalist work is fundamentally astir stewardship, accountability, and impact,” Akume stated. “Every nationalist serviceman holds bureau successful spot for the radical and indispensable truthful show integrity, transparency, and committedness to service.”

He reminded the participants that arsenic main executives, they are the points of interaction betwixt authorities and citizens, stressing that their agencies’ responsiveness, efficiency, and prime of work signifier nationalist cognition of authorities performance.

Declaring the ceremonial opened, Akume who was represented by a ineligible world astatine the University of Lagos, Prof. Simon Akaayar, emphasised the 8 statesmanlike priorities nether the Renewed Hope Agenda and the constitution of the Policy Coordination Office to guarantee alignment with measurable outcomes.

He said the CEOs’ show contracts and cardinal results areas are designed to construe authorities policies into tangible benefits for Nigerians.

The ngo of governance is successful your hands,” helium said. “Every reform, each initiative, and each committedness we marque arsenic a authorities volition lone beryllium delivered erstwhile you bring distant your strength, integrity, innovation, and discipline.”

The SGF described the grooming arsenic a deliberate argumentation inaugural to adjacent enactment and governance gaps successful the nationalist sector, noting that portion galore appointees are accomplished professionals, they often deficiency familiarity with the administrative, legal, and argumentation frameworks governing nationalist work operations.

According to him, the programme is designed to deepen participants’ knowing of fiscal responsibility, ethics, and accountability successful nationalist administration, portion equipping them with tools to navigate analyzable bureaucratic systems and align bureau show with nationalist improvement goals.

Earlier successful her remarks, the Director-General of the college, Mrs. Funke Femi Adepoju, stated that the programme was designed to equip heads of national parastatals and agencies with the enactment and governance competencies needed to construe nationalist priorities into organization results.

She noted that the training, which is being organised successful collaboration with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) and the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), reflects the national government’s committedness to gathering a competent and accountable nationalist service. Adepoju commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for placing quality capableness improvement astatine the centre of his Renewed Hope Agenda, stressing that his accent connected competence, results, and ethical enactment aligns with ASCON’s imaginativeness of fostering governance excellence.

“The president’s continuous accent connected competence, results, and ethical enactment gives renewed impetus to what we bash present astatine ASCON,” she said. “Through this programme, we are gathering a assemblage of leaders who volition champion reforms and present measurable outcomes for nationalist development.”

She urged participants to attack the programme with openness and a committedness to applying the lessons learned to thrust reforms wrong their respective organisations.

In her remarks, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, reiterated the national government’s committedness to gathering a competent, ethical, and digitally driven civilian work susceptible of gathering citizens’ expectations and driving organization reforms crossed each sectors.

She commended the instauration for sustaining a beardown contented of capableness gathering for nationalist assemblage leaders. According to her, the programme aligns with the national government’s broader imaginativeness of nurturing a nationalist work that is competent, accountable, technology-driven, and citizen-focused, successful enactment with the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021–2025 (FCSSIP25).

“The programme reflects our corporate committedness to gathering a nationalist ser...