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By Patricia Amogu

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark has commenced a capacity audit and training for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), and Human Resource (HR) Directorate.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the training is in collaboration with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

NAN also reports that the five days training workshop is in sync with the modernisation of Nigeria Immigration Service (MoNIS), project, which focuses on implementing the new Career Progression and Training Policy Framework (CPTF).

The Comptroller-General of the NIS, Kemi Nandap in her opening remarks at the training, said the initiative was apt and a significant effort to enhance the HR and training systems of the service.

Represented by Ada Umanah, an Assistant Comptroller -General in the NIS, Nandap said the MoNIS project aimed to instill a demand-driven training policy that directly correlated training with career progression, deployment opportunities, and personnel performance evaluations.

“At this point, it is time to measure the capacity of the Human Resource Management Directorate to implement the new Career Progression Training Policy Framework (CPTF).

“I urge all officers here to ensure that answers are given to the very best of your knowledge on the probing questions that will be asked of our processes and systems.

“This is to enable the very best solutions and tools to be developed for the benefit of the service,” she said.

Similarly, Mrs Mojisola Sodeinde, Regional Head, West Africa ICMPD, said that driving the Moni’s project would prepare the NIS workforce to have a clear scope leading to a clearer career path.

Sodeinde, represented by Mr Mathias Esene, Project Manager, West Africa Office, explained that the training was tailored to the NIS personnel work schedule.

“They are in charge of our borders and lots of training has been given to them before.

“However,  having this added knowledge will lead to having a better projection of technicalities required for their deliverables,” she said.

In the same vein, Anne Adesokan, an Assistant Comptroller- General, in charge of Appointment, Promotion, Discipline and Personnel,  said the training was one of the best  to happen to the NIS.

“Bringing this project will enable transparency and consistency because most of our processes will be digitalised and driven by data.

“If you are driven by data you will definitely appoint and recruit people that are needed for a particular project.”

NAN reports that a three-year initiative (August 2021 – July 2024) is designed to revolutionise the NIS through three primary objectives.

The objectives are the  establishment of a career progression and training policy framework, expansion of training accessibility via virtual learning, integration of gender mainstreaming in both administrative and operational capacities. (NAN)

Edited by Deborah Coker/Chioma Ugboma

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NAN Abuja.

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