GOTNI Leadership Centre has urged the Nigerian government to create a special budgetary for leadership training in order to achieve good governance.
Linus Okorie, the Founder of the Centre gave the advice during a mentorship class of over 40 young leaders under the auspices of News Engineering Limited in Abuja.
Okorie maintained that no nation can achieve good governance anchored on integrity, competence and accountability without sterling leadership.
He said as part of his efforts, there would be a marathon leadership training for Nigerians in order to change the negative perspective of governance and rulership.
“The GOTNI Leadership Centre is proud to have the partnership of News Engineering Limited to celebrate their 40th year of existence.
“What that means is that New Engineering decided to select 40 young leaders from engineering and construction.
“What it also means is that these young leaders who literally have some high level of technical skills but will come to GOTNI and spend a couple of days studying the concept of leadership.
“The concept of building their leadership confidence in order for them to deliver their technical skills more effectively and efficiently.
“News Engineering has funded at least 40 young people out of the over 600 people that applied and we selected 15 extra just to say they were able to invest heavily in the lives of these young people.
“What we will do is that we will develop the construction and technology industries in such a way that we will have people who are competent to deliver this country from waste.
“So, in my thinking, this is one of the best things that is happening in this country where leaders are thinking of investing in the lives of young people who are the next generation of leaders, who are going to be building companies and corporations that would supply engineering and construction works with human capital really needed.
“For me, my thinking is that every country or nation that wants to make progress must create budget that will focus on leadership development of their citizens because once you have high-level leadership capital they do great things.
“Great things can be done when you have leaders impact their leadership skills. For us at GOTNI we will continue to provide opportunities for young leaders from all segments of the economy to deepen their leadership capital needed.
“These are leadership principles that can change nations and institutions that must be sustained.
“We have a government that will place premium on leadership capital, performance, emotional intelligence and executive intelligence.
“If you put all of these together, imagine a Nigeria every person understands leadership capital and they are visionary and they have integrity and honour to drive things, do you know that this country will be transformed?
“Our campaign is for leadership advocacy at all levels and government must begin to put the right investment.
We call on other companies to emulate News Engineering Limited”, he said.
The Chief Executive Officer of News Engineering Limited, Lady Josephine Nweze, said as part of the activities the celebrate the 40th anniversary of the firm, they sponsored 40 aspiring leaders.
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