Nigerian Institute of Management – NIM (Chartered), has charged its newly conferred 210 Fellow Cadre Members to dedicate their time, expertise, experience and other resources for the advancement of Nigeria’s economy.
The President & Chairman of Council of the Institute, Commodore Abimbola Ayuba (rtd) gave this charge in an address at the 2025 Fellows Awards and Spouses’ Day Luncheon held in Lagos yesterday.
NIM’s president affirmed that, for Fellows to avail the Institute of their professional competencies and service to the nation, they have been constituted into faculties and sectoral groups viz: Leadership and Governance; Technology and Communication; Education and Social Development; Finance, Accounts and Management Audit; Planning, Economics and Management, as well as Safety, Health and Environment Management.
“The faculties are expected to identify issues and challenges in areas related to their disciplines, propose studies of such issues with a view to making policy recommendations to government via the Institute’s public policy advocacy initiative.
“Fellowship upgrade is neither a destination nor an end in itself, I implore you not to be contented with just adding the appellation (FNIM) to your names, but to see it as a call to higher responsibility and service to the Institute, the management profession and the nation. Henceforth, each of you would require to devote more of your resources to the service of the Institute and nation at large.
“Most importantly, my administration in conjunction with Management is presently working on NIM Resource Centre. This will not only transform and give a facelift to the existing facility i.e the library of the Institute, but will upgrade it to a one-stop digital information hub of the Institute” he assured.
In a keynote address, Rear Admiral Babalola Egbedina (rtd), spoke on ‘Building Trust and Accountability: The Human Element of Decentralized Command within Divisional Structures’, called on corporate leaders to prioritize open and transparent leadership in their respective organizations, if they must earn the trust of the people.
“The pre-requisites for building trust and accountability in a decentralized management structure comprised: Communication, properly defining roles and responsibility, autonomy with due oversight, employing trust building mechanisms through feedback and performance metrics with monitoring”
The military strategist emphasized that no matter the allure that Artificial Intelligence (AI) possesses, it cannot replace the originality and uniqueness of the human element in the organization. “As for the managers, they should stay perpetually informed by reading quality publications like the Financial Times or The Economist, and other quality material resources you can lay your hands on” he charged.
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