The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday lauded an NGO, Core Fundamental Inventors (CFI), for organising free capacity training for 50 of its members of staff. Mr Moses Uzoagba, Deputy Director, Admin and Human Resources Department, of the agency, gave the commendation at the closing of the 3-day free training at NAN headquarters Abuja.
The traininy by CFI centered on business journalism, web design, corporate finance and evaluation, cyber security fundamentals, digital transformation, performance management evaluation, effective leadership capacity and team building, rules, regulations, processes and procedure in public service.
According to Uzoagba, the training which stated from June 30 to July 2, 2021 was designed for 50 staff, cutting across various department that made up the agency. “I want to thank CFI because the training was beneficial to us individually and collectively. “
We are grateful to CFI, apart from the knowledge they impacted, they also made the training quite interesting. “We approached them for this and we never knew it would turn out this way. “Management believes this is just the begining of our future business interaction, assistance and cooperation, in terms of partnership with CFI,” he said.
Also speaking, Dr Henry Ossamulu, the CFI Director of Training Programme, said the initiative would continue till 2026. He noted that the initiative was borne out of the organisation’s desire to contribute its quota to nation building processes through capacity building. “
We observed there had been decadence in management practices within the civil service and even, other private sectors of the nation’s economy. “So, we felt it was imperative to put up capacity building programmes, to add value to our nation’s work force. “
We believe Nigeria someday will become a much better place, where everybody across the world will want to be, and that can be achieved by capacity building. “This s what CFI intends to do in the nearest future, but we cannot do it alone, so we need partners, to achieve targets,” Ossamulu said.
NAN reports that a participant, Mrs Ese Williams, Assistant Editor in Chief in the Editorial Department, said that the training had helped her to improve the knowledge in key areas, such as cyber security in relation to Journalism. “
It has been very impactful, interesting and insightful: it is a good initiative by the management of NAN to retrain its staff, it shows we have crops of intelligent staff in the agency. “
All we just need is a little push and motivation for staff to bring out their best and I wish such training holds regularly, to abreast us with modern technologies in media profession.
“The training has shown that no one is too old or too big to learn, we can learn everyday as humans and the day you stop learning, you start failing,” Williams said. Another participant, Mr John Ojemiran, Principal Accountant in Account Department of NAN, said that the training programme initiative was apt, in terms of boosting staff morale in the agency.
Ojemiran said, “The training has been quite impactful, because it exposed us to newer innovation on areas that has to do with digital world. “
We were taught website design and that is something I believe most things learnt from the training can be applied in various units and departmental operations, to enhance Business Journalism and Corporate Account Finance.”
High point of the training programme was award of N8,000 cash prize to Mrs Ebonine Philomina, who took First position in the exam, N3000 to Mr Adeniyi George, who took second position, and N2000 to Mr Ugochukwu Nwogote, who took third. The participants were also presented with certificates of attendance. (NAN)
