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What is the nature of the youth strategy required to harness the youth in Nigeria? What is to be done is clear: We need youth development programmes and value proposition, as well as an execution framework, around which a paradigmatic value reorientation and platforms of engagement can be achieved

Tunji Olaopa: Taking youth development to the next level

Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Dr. Tunji Olaopa, has called for a change in the bureaucratic culture within the civil service to give a new logic of open government to the system.

Civil Service Must Move Beyond Bureaucracy Perm Sec

Point to Remember: Nigeria is one of Africa’s biggest economies and includes the traditional as well the modern

After lurching from one military coup to another, Nigeria now has an elected leadership. But the government faces the growing challenge of preventing Africa’s most populous country from breaking apart along ethnic and religious lines.

Facts about Nigeria

No where else is the challenge of transformation and modernization of the public sector more daunting than the sub-Saharan Africa where most of the countries are still grappling with the crisis of government and development. Largely colonial appendages who assured independence from the imperialis

Towards New Public Management In Nigeria: Implementing Privatization Policy

Technical education is a planned programme of courses and learning experiences that begins with exploration of career options, supports basic academic and life skills, and enables achievement of high academic standards, leadership, preparation for industry-defined work, and advanced and continuing education.



Vocation and technical education: Key to improving nigeria’s development

Ezekwesili canvasses competent civil service for FG’s reforms –    On 24th June, 2015, Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, yesterday, said the  vision to reform the country will require a civil service with character, capacity and competence where the operatives are not immune to changes

Ezekwesili canvasses competent civil service for FG’s reforms

In an industry that is troubled by global standards, and dying, by African standards, Ethiopian Airlines has remained successful in terms of safety and profitability for its almost seven decades of existence and counting. In 2011 alone, for instance, Ethiopian Airlines received four different awards. These include African Cargo Airline of the Year, Deal of the Year 2010 Award, Africa’s Most Profitable Airline of the Year (2011 was the third in a row) as well as African Airlines Association (AFRAA) Award for being consistently profitable over the years. (AFRAA is the trade organization open to membership of African Union states in the airline business). Ethiopian Airlines’ success story is no doubt a far cry from the underperformance and/or comatose state of the likes of South African Airlines, Kenyan airlines, Air Afrique, and Nigeria Airways, to name a few. It leaves many in wonderment what accounts for such achievement? Some close watchers of the airline are of the opinion that national pride is a contributing factor. 

Ethiopian Airlines: Can the success story be replicated in Nigeria?

Nigerians impatient for oil sector anti-graft reforms

Social analysts note that some dissenting voices greeted the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to remove part of the subsidy paid on petrol and pool the accruing funds to finance the country’s social and infrastructural development.

Enhancing education development via Graduate Internship Scheme

Governance and the Institutional Framework of Development Management in Africa: Reversing the Decline in Quality Delivery    –     The Institutional Framework of Development Management: As I stated in an earlier blog post, development management, in scholarly and practical perspectives, serves as a tool for executing institutional agendas within the measure of planning, implementation and monitoring of development oriented programmes. Governments and the public service generate policies, provide research based analysis of development situations, introduce and monitor corresponding projects in development at every level of decisions – international, regional, national or local.

Governance and the Institutional Framework of Development Management in Africa: Reversing the Decline in Quality Delivery

‘The world needs science and science needs women,’ says UN on new International Day –  More than ever today, the world needs science and science needs women, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today marking the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

The world needs science and science needs women

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Secure rule of law in next development agenda Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

Secure rule of law in next development agenda

The potential of our continent is huge. Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world’s last “New Frontier”, a kind of “it-continent”.

Mo Ibrahim: Now is the time for Afro-realism

When it comes to ramping up manufacturing in Africa, there are myriad impediments, but, given time and effort, they are surmountable, said participants on a panel titled, “Manufacturing: From Asian Tiger to African Lion?” at the recent Wharton Africa Business Forum in Philadelphia.

How to Build an ‘African Model’ for Success in Manufacturing

Each year, 10 to 12 million sub-Saharan African youth enter the labour market. They face fierce competition for jobs, in part because Africa has the largest population of young residents in the world. Competition is heightened because employers demand skills critical to the 21st century workplace that are too often lacking among new entrants to the labour market.

The golden year: Solutions for Africa’s youth unemployment

The outcome document of the UN’s Rio+20 Conference demonstrates many positive developments in the international community’s understanding of and approach to development. In recognising that “people are at the centre of sustainable development” (article 6) and that there is a need for “holistic and integrated approaches to sustainable development” (40), focus is put on human development.

The Future We Want: The Role of Culture in Sustainable Development

Globally, the subjects you will be reading on this blog vary in degrees – this is due to the all-encompassing and multidisciplinary nature of the subject – Managing for Development Results (MfDR).

What to Expect from My Blog

The Ado about Development Results  –  I had my first experience of international development as an undergraduate member of AIESEC, the world largest international exchange organization run by student and recent graduates which specialized in International economics and development. AIESEC runs like a mini United Nations, giving its members the opportunity to work on community issues with a global perspective. I joined AIESEC in 1993 and became a member of my University local Executive Committee in 1995. From then till the end of my active work with  the Organization in 2003, I held leadership and coordinating positions in three countries (Nigeria, Gabon and France) while I continue to do other development works alongside studies. In many of the assignments I undertook, one thing was common – a continuous attempt to introduce innovation in order to improve the impacts of the actions of a team.


The Ado about Development Results (Part 1)

11 things we learned about social enterprise in international development 

After some 115 years, Scotland has burned its last lump of coal for electricity.

After 115 Years, Scotland Is Coal-Free

Resources

This Annual Development Effectiveness Review (ADER) presents the contribution of the African Development Bank (AfDB, or the Bank) to Africa’s development. It outlines recent economic and social trends across the

2017 Annual Development Effectiveness Review

Missing Links in the Politics of Development: Learning from the PRSP Experiment by David Booth – In 2005, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are five years old. It is six years

Missing Links In The Politics Of Development: Learning From The PRSP Experiment By David Booth

The “Journées Jeunesse et Dèveloppement en Afrique: le numérique et les NTIC”, will be held 10-11 February 2015 at UNESCO Headquarters. In addition to UNESCO senior managers, experts who have

Journées Jeunesse Et Dévéloppement En Afrique: Mardi 10 Et Mecredi 11 Février 2015

Sustainable Development: On the Dilemma of a Definition by Aderemi Oladele

The Asia-Pacific Community of Practice (APCoP) on Managing for
Development Results launches this new publication on the Results-based
Public Sector Management (PSM) Framework.