NIPSS Graduation Ceremony of Senior Executive Course 43 of 2021 in Jos

by Olayemi Esan 

The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN attended the NIPSS Graduation Ceremony in Kuru, Jos, Plateau State. 20th Nov, 2021

The Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo was on Saturday at the graduation ceremony of the Senior Executive Course 43 of 2021 in Jos, the Plateau State capital. 

Osinbajo said, "I bring you the warm felicitations of President Muhammadu Buhari, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"On his behalf, I congratulate you all participants of this Senior Executive Course for your excellent performance and your preferment today to the privilege of Member of the National Institute, MNI. 

"I also congratulate family and friends, and especially spouses of participants on this joyful occasion. It will be remiss if I fail to congratulate you all on your well researched and thought-provoking presentation to Mr. President Thursday on “Getting Things Done: Strategies for Policy and Programme Implementation in Nigeria.” Congratulations and well done! 

"You are graduating at probably the most consequential period in Nigeria’s history; a time of immense challenges but even more enormous opportunities. Permit me therefore in the next few minutes to broadly sweep through some of the challenges we have faced and how we have surmounted or are surmounting them. 

"The point of the exercise is to exercise your minds as members of Nigeria’s foremost think-tank, as we interrogate how optimally leadership or other actors responded and perhaps what more needs to be done", he said.

Professor Osinbajo mentioned 4 areas:

1. The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the future;

2. The response to the economic downturn in the aftermath of the pandemic, and the issue of continuous growth;

3. The Unicorns and the future of youth employment and;

4. The New National Development Plan.

Let me conclude by reminding our new MNI that every MNI belongs to an elite club of thought leaders of Nigeria. You are at the frontlines of our efforts to build a better future for our country; you must be the first promoters of Nigeria’s unity, the seminal policy work you produced here shows what can be done where the best Nigerian minds regardless of ethnicity or religion, work together for the good of our nation and its people.