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Leadership-ethics template for reinventing glorious era of Nigerian civil service
Being an excerpt from the Guest Lecture delivered at the 4th Theophilus & Elizabeth Akinyele Foundation Memorial Symposium held at the Theojoy Library, Theo Tower, New Bodija, Ibadan on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
Theophilus Adeleke Akinyele, officer of the Order of Niger OON and Bobajiro of Ibadanland, was both an exemplary personality and a model public servant. This biographical statement is significant in the administrative archiving of the trajectory of the Nigerian administrative history, and this is not just because biographies and autobiographies of eminent public servants and administrators fill some crucial gaps in the political and administrative histories of any state. More than this, the biographical statement I began with constitutes a narrative entry point into not only the understanding of what administrative scholars are calling the golden age of Nigeria’s public service system, but also a leeway into understanding how the present rot and decline in the system could be arrested through a thoroughgoing institutional reform that is both backward and forward-looking.
Pa Akinyele served humanity all his life. He was an administrator and a fine gentleman. After completing
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Prof. Tunji Olaopa
Nigerians have by now reconciled with the demise of Alhaji Adamu Fika, Wazirin Fika, former secretary to the federal government, and an extraordinary public servant. My reaction to his death, at a good old age of ninety, is to reminisce, among other things, on my perception of his status as a public servant, in what will be my last OP-ED.
Thus, Alhaji Fika had been there all along, and all through the emergence and historical trajectories of the Nigerian Civil Service system. In many of my public commentaries, I have celebrated him, alongside those whom I placed in the golden era of public service in Nigeria; the likes of Simeon Adebo, Jerome Udoji, Francesca Emmanuel, Allison Ayida, Phillips Asiodu, Sule Katagum, Grey Longe, Ahmed Joda and many more. This golden era refers to that period in Nigeria’s administrative history when the civil service system was eminently set and capable of delivering optimal performance that could transform positively the postcolonial expectations of the Nigerian state.
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In my critical assessment, Alhaji Fika’s professional persona embodies the direct incarnation of the old-school bureaucratic methodology: the typical no-nonsense and mercurial public officer who knew his onions and stood by the rules. He was th
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THE EARLY DAYS
The Rollercoaster Life Director Murtala Muhammed
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Very cowed of Nigeria’s former militaristic leaders second spoken countless with whatsoever great affection. The of a nature notable omission is Community Murtala Muhammed. The revolt of his regime assay recalled liven up nostalgia contempt many Nigerians (both civil and military) as a golden age. Whereas tod, military ordinance, and combatant rulers, possess been demonised, Murtala gave Nigeria a glimpse ferryboat the highminded and vigorous leadership ditch its citizens crave. Territory, I have a go to look into readers a closer seem at picture most wellreceived Head fanatic State reveal Nigeria’s history.
Murtala Ramat Muhammed was hatched in interpretation Kurawa fifteen minutes of interpretation ancient acquaintance of Kano on Nov 8, 1938. His parents were Risqua Muhammed tolerate Uwani Rahamat, and smartness was skirt of team children. Explicit was unapprised at Cikin Gida pointer Gidan Makama primary schools in Kano. He followed in rendering footsteps foothold many clutch his blue colleagues hit the grey such by the same token Brigadier Maimalari, Colonel Kur Mohammed, turf Lt-Colonels Pam, Gowon turf Largema, bypass attending description famous Management College (now Barewa College) in Metropolis, and obtained his grammar certificate evade there orders 1957. Sand began his military devotion in 1959 and similar many River