NIM admonishes leaders on nation building, confers awards on CDS, 149 others

The Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) Chartered has charged leaders connected nation-building, calling connected the recipient of its awards to higher work and work to the assemblage and federation astatine large.

President and Chairman of Council, NIM, Dr Christiana Atako, said this during the institute’s 2024 Awards, Fellows and Spouses’ Day Luncheon, held successful Lagos.

At the ceremony, the institute conferred fellowship awards to the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), Gen Christopher Musa, and 149 different Nigerians.

According to Atako, “I complaint you not to beryllium satisfied with conscionable adding the appellation, FNIM, to your names. From today, each of you is required to give much of your time, talent, treasure and reasoning to the work of the institute, the assemblage and the nation.”

In her keynote address, the Business Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Hafsatu Abdu-Gusau, urged members to embed sustainability criteria successful decision-making processes.

She stressed that each levels of the organisation indispensable see sustainability impacts by incorporating its strategies to navigate aboriginal challenges and exploit caller marketplace opportunities.

Abdu-Gusau stated that integrating sustainability into organisational processes had benefits specified arsenic outgo reduction, capitalist attraction, enhanced marque reputation, hazard mitigation and regulatory compliance among others.

She urged that managers should make a broad acceptable of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that align with the organisation’s sustainability priorities and strategical goals.

“Collaboration plays a important relation successful sustainability, arsenic it enables organisations to leverage partnerships and alliances to entree complementary resources, capabilities, and markets.

“By moving together, businesses tin stock knowledge, trim costs, and heighten innovation, which is indispensable for implementing sustainable practices. These collaborative efforts tin pb to improved operational efficiencies and greater interaction successful addressing sustainability challenges,” she said.

In his remark, the caller chap and CDS Musa identified mismanagement arsenic the bane of the nation’s development.

While calling connected Nigerians to articulation the subject and authorities to escaped the federation of each forms of crimes and criminalities, helium said that the task of securing the federation was a corporate responsibility.

He urged the institute not to relent successful its resoluteness to foster bully absorption practices successful the workplace and the federation astatine large.