THE Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, has said that the agency has to do things differently if it hopes to meet up with Global Best Practise.
According to a statement signed on Wednesday by the agency’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Nduonofit Effiong, the NPA MD disclosed this during a Management retreat organised by Messrs Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from the United State of America (USA) on Wednesday in Lagos.
In the words of the NPA boss, “the executive and management teams of the organisation has to work harder in order to make our ports competitive, efficient, effective and up-to-date in global best practices, technologically advanced and modern in every sense of the word.”
Usman added that on assumption of duty, she took it upon herself “the challenges of pursuing reform measures aimed at instituting best practices that would ensure ease of doing business in our operating and administrative processes.”
Usman also said that she has implicit confidence in the calibre of workforce in NPA, which are highly educated, trained and exposed in a well-established organisational structure.
In conclusion, the MD said the time has come for NPA to do things differently and in accordance with global accepted standard if the agency is serious about being globally competitive.
The one day strategy management retreat had in attendance, all executive directors, general managers and a cross section of high level managers of the organisation.