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Civil Servants to Benefit from Nationwide Project Management Training

housingtv — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:43:02 +0000

By Ameh Gabriel The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN) has partnered with the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs to roll out a nationwide training program aimed at equipping civil servants with modern project management skills. The initiative was unveiled during a courtesy visit by the Registrar General and Chief Executive Officer of CIPMN, Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe, who led a delegation to confer Fellowship Awards on the Minister, Hon. Zaphaniah Jisalo, and the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Onwusoro Maduka Ihemelandu, at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. Speaking on behalf of the Minister after the conferment, Dr. Ihemelandu described the partnership as a game-changer for Nigeria’s public service. He explained that the training will commence with Permanent Secretaries at the federal and state levels, before extending to Directors and subsequently civil servants across all 774 local government areas of the country. “We can begin from the Federal Capital Territory and scale nationwide. Upskilling civil servants in project management will strengthen delivery, improve costing efficiency, and enhance accountability,” the Permanent Secretary said. He stressed that poor project costing and weak quality assurance remain major obstacles to effective service delivery, citing Nigeria’s volatile economic environment as a key challenge. “Most of the problems we face in governance today come from weak project cost management. Prices fluctuate, quality assurance is often neglected, and many civil servants lack structured training in conceptualisation, monitoring, and evaluation. This initiative will help close those gaps,” he added. Dr. Ihemelandu further urged CIPMN to convene a stakeholders’ forum, bringing on board agencies such as the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management, and the Bureau of Public Procurement. Such collaboration, he said, would ensure harmonised standards and more effective project delivery. Earlier, CIPMN Registrar General, Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe, said the award presentation marked the beginning of a stronger collaboration between the Institute and the Ministry. “By accepting this fellowship, you take up a unique role in driving project management reforms in Nigeria. Together, we will ensure that project delivery remains at the forefront of governance, in line with the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Agenda,” Mbadiwe noted. He added that CIPMN remains committed to its mandate of promoting professionalism, enforcing standards, and ensuring that project management is properly regulated across all sectors of the Nigerian economy.

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FG approves Salary increase for civil servants

housingtv — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:36:04 +0000

The Federal Government has approved an increase of between 25% and 35% in salary Increase for Civil Servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures

The Salary Structure are Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS), Consolidated Research and Allied Institutions Salary Structure (CONRAISS), Consolidated Police Salary Structure (CONPOSS), Consolidated Para-military Salary Structure (CONPASS), Consolidated
Intelligence Community Salary Structure (CONICCS) and Consolidated Armed Forces Salary Structure (CONAFSS).

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It will be recalled that those in the Tertiary Education and Health Sectors had already received their increases which involved Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS) and Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure (CONTISS)
for Universities.

For Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, it involved the
Consolidated Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Salary Structure (CONPCASS) and Consolidated Tertiary Educational Institutions Salary Structure (CONTEDISS).

The Health Sector also benefitted through the Consolidated Medical
Salary Structure (CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Sector Salary Structure (CONHESS).

A statement signed by the Head of Press, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Emmanuel Njoku said the increases take effect from 1st January 2024.

The Federal Government has also approved increases In pension of between 20% and 28% for pensioners on the Defined Benefits Scheme in
respect of the above-mentioned six consolidated salary structures with effect from 1st January 2024

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How Civil Servants in FCDA are Conniving with Land Grabbers- Wike

housingtv — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:54:39 +0000

Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has said some officials were conspiring with land grabbers to work against the federal government on the issues of lands allocation in Abuja.

Wike said some of the people calling themselves investors bought hectares of land and start reselling to Abuja residents, with the connivance with legal and land secretariat.

The minister said this during a press briefing with select journalists in his office in Abuja, while reacting to the allegations by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the SNECOU Group Limited, Chief Nicholas Ukachukwu, that he wanted to deal with Igbo people.

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Ukachukwu had said FCT minister ordered the demolition of investment on 214 hectares of land in the Asokoro district of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The Anambra-born businessman accused Wike of ordering the demolition without any court order despite pending valid two court orders from separate courts restraining him and the FCT administration from tampering with the property.

In his media chat with journalists, Wike said such cases on his desk were numerous, and thriving because of the corrupt civil servants aiding and abetting the property investors he called “land grabbers”.

He said they were defrauding people and the government by buying land in large quantities and reselling to residents, after they might have told the government that the lands were for investments.

“They are conniving with the legal secretariat here. Do you know we can sack them? Sack the land administrator? Have you seen the court judgement? Go and read the court judgement and see whether the court says the land is their own?” Wike asked.

“They went to tell the court to say tell FCTA to return our documents they are holding. I met these matters here. They were over 1000 cases on lands. As the court says ‘FCTA release their documents’ , does that show that you’re entitled to the land? There is no way they would go in there. It is our property!”

Speaking about the conspiracy of how they get court judgement, Wike said, “Do you know after they filed a suit against us, they made a deal with the law secretariat. They brought an external lawyer, and the external lawyer will agree with them, and the judgment will be served. I’ve never seen how corrupt human beings can be.

“The point I’m making is that all sentiments that I’m revoking people’s lands (is) by law. Nobody has said you revoked the land because I’m a Yoruba man. Nobody has said you revoke the land because I’m a Hausa man. What has this gotten to do with Igbo? What kind of a crazy, childish sentiment is that? He said.

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