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  • CIPMN: FG urges stakeholders to support industrial growth 

    CIPMN: FG urges stakeholders to support industrial growth 

    …inaugurates governing council 

    The federal government has inaugurated the governing council of the Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN), calling on the institute and stakeholders to play a more active role in driving industrial growth across the country.

    Minister of State for Industry, Senator John Enoh, who performed the inauguration, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to strengthening local industries. He noted that the administration had previously outlined an industrial agenda prioritizing automobile manufacturing and in-country industrialization.

    Represented by his Senior Special Adviser on Policy, Dr. Adedeji Adeshile, the minister urged the newly inaugurated council to align its efforts with the government’s industrialization vision.

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    “This year, we released an agenda to support industrialization, and we expect the council to take a leading role in driving this vision. I also encourage stakeholders to collaborate in achieving national industrial goals,” he said.

    In his remarks, CIPMN Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Henry Mbadiwe, commended the minister for his support and highlighted the institute’s crucial role in regulating project management in Nigeria.

    “Project management extends beyond construction; it covers healthcare, pharmaceuticals, finance, and business transformation. Anyone leading project delivery in this country must be licensed by this institute,” he emphasized.

    Mbadiwe reiterated CIPMN’s position as the sole regulatory body overseeing project management activities across all sectors, stressing its importance in ensuring professional standards and efficiency in project execution.

  • CIPMN calls on MDAs to hand off govt projects

    CIPMN calls on MDAs to hand off govt projects

    The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN) has urged federal government directors and officials in ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to refrain from managing projects, citing their lack of qualifications in project management.

    During a media briefing in Abuja, the Institute’s Registrar and Chief Executive, Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe, emphasised that CIPMN is actively contributing to the human capital development aspect of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda by enhancing knowledge and skills.

    Mbadiwe noted that CIPMN is collaborating with organizations like the Bureau of Public Procurement to ensure that only licensed project managers oversee contracts in Nigeria.

    He added that the Institute aims to ensure all MDAs prioritise planning, risk management, and supply chain management in their activities.

    He said: “The Institute is also taking steps to work with various organisations like the Bureau of Public Procurement to ensure that contracts are only delivered in Nigeria by licensed project managers. The Renewed Hope Agenda is not something you can deliver in one year that is just the truth. Human capital development is one of the key drivers of this administration.

    “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made it very clear, that it is not just about subsidies or about handouts. He has made it very clear that this is a very difficult time. CIPMN’s role is simple, to take that human capital development element and push it to the end, other elements can be handed to other people.”

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    The CIPMN Act mandates that individuals must be licensed to manage any project, and the institute is set to enforce this regulation, with full implementation beginning next year.

    By 2025, CIPMN will begin holding organizations accountable, publicly naming agencies that fail to comply with the Act.

    Highlighting the institute’s achievements, Registrar Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe noted that CIPMN has established a Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standard (CCMAS) for project management in Nigerian universities.

    Additionally, the institute has launched a skills development program for artisans through the Industrial Training Fund’s (ITF) SUPA initiative.

  • ‘Abandoned projects now at N17tr’

    ‘Abandoned projects now at N17tr’

    Registrar General, Chartered Institute of Project Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Ifeanyi Mbadiwe said research has shown that abandoned projects in Nigeria now stand at N17 trillion.

    He lamented that Nigerians are uncomfortable with the situation.

    He tasked unlicensed project managers to ensure they are licensed if not they will face the full wrath of the law.

    Mbadiwe spoke during a press briefing in Abuja. He explained that the law establishing CIPMN has made it clear that anyone within the public and private sectors who heads, leads, or teaches any aspect of project management in Nigeria must be licensed to practise the profession.

    Mbadiwe noted that, “One of the challenges faced in Nigeria is not the absence of laws, but the blatant disregard for these laws, often with the perpetrator’s unwarranted confidence in impunity because in Nigeria, no one is surprised again when you mention abandoned projects.

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    “When abandoned projects are mentioned you see lack of interest, lack of proper project planning from the onset, including proper budgetary allocation for the project

    Corruption and compromises including Weak institutions. We cannot continue building, spending, and budgeting without proper planning and expect Nigeria to grow”.

    CIPMN by law is to licence all project managers in the country as required by law, ‘we will definitely hold ourselves to the highest possible standards in Nigeria and ensure that the regulation of this sector is done dispassionately without prejudice’. We cannot continue to press the reset button each time an administration changes.