Category: Conference

EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT: CHANGING GLOBAL DYNAMICS AND SKILL-SET BY BENJAMIN CHUKA OSISIOMA

NIGERIA: THE BIBLICAL WORLD-VIEW ON  POLITICAL LEADERSHIP by Benjamin Chuka Osisioma Nigeria cannot run a transformation agenda without a transformational leader. The need of the moment is for a leader with idealism – one with standards and convictions, with a tendency towards the highest conceivable perfection. Nigeria needs a Level 5 leader, an Authentic leader, […]

SPRING BEYOND LIMITS: CATALYSING SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA by Prof. Benjamin Chuka Osisioma The Igbos of the South-East, once a proud, dynamic, enterprising and forthright people, were easily the best bureaucrats, the most enlightened officer corps, excellent in academic pursuit, and dominant in the commanding heights of the nation’s economy. That was the birthright […]

FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP IN DIRE ECONOMIC STRAITS: MAINTAINING A COMPETITIVE EDGE by Benjamin Chuka Osisioma   The corporate scandals which tore at the heart of the corporate environment in the period 2000 to 2010, had their roots in high level executive greed among senior corporate officials, loopholes in the laws and regulatory framework and executive abuses that […]

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND PEACE BUILDING IN NIGERIA: FINDING THE COMMON GROUND by Prof. Benjamin Chuka Osisioma Historically, Nigeria is fraught with conflicts, some of them life-threatening, others minor and pedestrian. Conflict management requires the application of resolution techniques to regulate the level and impact of disruptive conflicts; and peace building seeks to develop constructive relationships across […]

COMBATING FRAUD AND WHITE COLLAR CRIMES: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA. By Prof. Benjamin Chuka Osisioma Nigeria has paid dearly for ethical lapses and competency deficiencies in public and private life. Fraud is systemic in Nigeria with the ordinary citizen being compelled to be either a liar, a cheat or an outright thief. Fraud has stultified growth and […]

CHANGING VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT by Benjamin Chuka Osisioma Values are articulated assertions about normative behaviours – yardsticks used by society in assessing behaviours, attitudes and beliefs to determine their congruence with acceptable norms. They are deep-seated, and constitute force for development and growth in every polity. Professional development on the other hand, is the […]

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR ECONOMIC TURNAROUND: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA by Benjamin C. Osisioma Capacity building is a process through which people, organisations and society strengthen their knowledge, abilities, skills and behaviour and improve institutional structures and processes such that they can efficiently meet their mission and goals in a sustainable way. Institutions are at the heart […]

BUDGETING, AUDITING AND GOVERNANCE: IMPLEMENTING THE ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK by Prof. Benjamin C. Osisioma Good governance relates to the exercise of legitimate authority in the conduct and management of public affairs and resources so as to guarantee the realization of sustainable human development. The true test of ‚good governance‛ is the degree to which the institutions […]

ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE CHURCH by Prof. Benjamin Chuka Osisioma Traditionally, accountability is the obligation to give a reckoning or explanation for one’s actions and responsibilities to a higher authority. However, for the purpose of this paper, we define accountability as the processes through which an organisation makes a commitment to respond to and balance the […]