Bill Plan To Go To National Assembly, Seeks Recognition Of Management Day

A proposed bill to mark the celebration of Management Day is set to go to the National Assembly.

This was communicated to newsmen on Friday in Jos, the Plateau State Capital by the President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Institute of Management, Prof. Munzali Jibril.

Jibril said that the institute is proposing November 19 to be set aside every year to celebrate Management Day.

He posited that the day is being proposed because it is the birthday of Prof. Peter Drucker, a man considered to be the father of management.

His words, “since there are World Malaria Day, World Water Day and so on, there should be nothing wrong in setting aside a day to celebrate professional managers”.

The Management boss, who was in Jos on a value tour of North Central zone, said that the institute will continue to improve the skill of its members through the mandatory continuing professional examination programme (MCPEP) and other human capital development programmes, adding that the institute is also continuing with its subsisting memorandum of Understanding with the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, the National Defence College as well as the Nigerian Army School of Finance and Administration, Lagos in the area of professional management training.

He said that these programmes were being pursued alongside other regular programmes of the institute such as distinguished management lecture, women in management and leadership conference and Management Day.
He lauded Governor Simon Lalong for the peaceful atmosphere prevailing in Jos, which he said was contrary to the nation being held in other parts of the country, adding that the fact that he was being hosted in Jos attested to the peaceful nature of the state.

Responding, Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the tour, Chief Edinen Usoroh, said that the zone has been fortunate to host all the three immediate past presidents while they were in office, adding that this was made possible by the prevailing peace in Plateau state.

Usoroh said that NIM in Plateau state has come of age; from just a chapter of few members, drawn largely from the public sector, into a branch with three chapters inaugurated in 2011.

Also, Chairman of North central zone of NIM, Mrs. Farida Bello, said that the zone is one of the most blessed in the country with abundance of natural resources and agriculture, saying that the zone is the food basket of the nation.