Making 21st Century Nigeria Thrive: What Matters Is Capacity To Deliver, Not Questionable Paper Qualifications
October 12, 2023 | News
-By Zik Gbemre
Making 21st Century Nigeria Thrive: What Matters Is Capacity To Deliver, Not Questionable Paper Qualifications
21st Century living in Nigeria has no place for spreading of fake rumours/stories. While some ignorant people are busy putting and dissipating all their energies into confirming the academic records of President Bola Tinubu, informed people are moving to what they can do to impact on society and manage resources positively.
Even in US/UK/France, they don't place emphasis on spoken English and paper qualifications, but here in Nigeria, the ignorant people believe that if a person is unable to speak the English Language with the British/American accent, that person is a nonentity and unfit to occupy any public or managerial office.
All of these thoughts are factors of inferiority complex and signs of a failed society. As advanced as US, its present Secretary of Health and Humanitarian Services, Mr Xavier Becerra is a lawyer. In UK its Secretary of Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay is UK solicitor and worked in Barclays Bank as Head of anti-money laundering in the bank.
In Nigeria, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) will go on strike if a medical doctor is not appointed minister of health. What is needed in this era are people with potentials, capability and capacity to manage projects and resources and not just one's paper qualifications.
Here in Nigeria if one is not a medical doctor he/she must not be appointed a minister or commissioner of health. The management of health schemes and projects require people who can manage them and not just paper qualifications.
One doesn't need to be an engineer to manage the oil and gas infrastructure and oil companies. The NNPC LTD has always been managed by engineers with a lot of failures. One doesn't need to be engineer to manage transportation infrastructure and oil sector.
The present Managing Director of Shell (SPDC) and Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, is not an engineer, a business administrator but he is doing a great job for his company because he has great potentials, capability and capacity to manage Shell's vast investments in Nigeria.
Capability and capacity are what are required. One doesn't need to study banking and finance to manage banks and financial institutions as well as Central Bank of Nigeria.
One doesn't need to be captain of airlines to manage the aviation sector.
Nigeria is still behind time and focused on unnecessary matters that have no bearing in management of resources and people. The viral video of a 9 year old boy showing his expertise in using household infrastructure without the assistance of his parents is a testimony to learn from.
Nigeria must look beyond paper qualifications in this 21st Century to meet up with world standard.
Zik Gbemre
October 11, 2023
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
-By Zik Gbemre
Making 21st Century Nigeria Thrive: What Matters Is Capacity To Deliver, Not Questionable Paper Qualifications
21st Century living in Nigeria has no place for spreading of fake rumours/stories. While some ignorant people are busy putting and dissipating all their energies into confirming the academic records of President Bola Tinubu, informed people are moving to what they can do to impact on society and manage resources positively.
Even in US/UK/France, they don't place emphasis on spoken English and paper qualifications, but here in Nigeria, the ignorant people believe that if a person is unable to speak the English Language with the British/American accent, that person is a nonentity and unfit to occupy any public or managerial office.
All of these thoughts are factors of inferiority complex and signs of a failed society. As advanced as US, its present Secretary of Health and Humanitarian Services, Mr Xavier Becerra is a lawyer. In UK its Secretary of Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay is UK solicitor and worked in Barclays Bank as Head of anti-money laundering in the bank.
In Nigeria, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) will go on strike if a medical doctor is not appointed minister of health. What is needed in this era are people with potentials, capability and capacity to manage projects and resources and not just one's paper qualifications.
Here in Nigeria if one is not a medical doctor he/she must not be appointed a minister or commissioner of health. The management of health schemes and projects require people who can manage them and not just paper qualifications.
One doesn't need to be an engineer to manage the oil and gas infrastructure and oil companies. The NNPC LTD has always been managed by engineers with a lot of failures. One doesn't need to be engineer to manage transportation infrastructure and oil sector.
The present Managing Director of Shell (SPDC) and Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, is not an engineer, a business administrator but he is doing a great job for his company because he has great potentials, capability and capacity to manage Shell's vast investments in Nigeria.
Capability and capacity are what are required. One doesn't need to study banking and finance to manage banks and financial institutions as well as Central Bank of Nigeria.
One doesn't need to be captain of airlines to manage the aviation sector.
Nigeria is still behind time and focused on unnecessary matters that have no bearing in management of resources and people. The viral video of a 9 year old boy showing his expertise in using household infrastructure without the assistance of his parents is a testimony to learn from.
Nigeria must look beyond paper qualifications in this 21st Century to meet up with world standard.
Zik Gbemre
October 11, 2023
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes