Education
CIPMN unveils methodology to enhance professional best practices
The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN) has unveiled a methodology aimed at enhancing the professional best practices of its members.
The methodology called Delivery Unified Controlled Agile Projects (DUCAP) was unveiled in Abuja on Thursday at the induction ceremony of 120 new members of the institute.
Dr Victoria Okoronkwo, Chairman, Governing Council of the institute said that there were gaps in the application of projects within the country’s project environment and eco-system considering the peculiar socio-economic,, political and ethnoreligious realities.
Okoronkwo said that in order to bridge the gap, the idea of DUCAP as the country’s version of the project delivery framework was muted.
She said that the major objective of the methodology was to integrate all the existing foreign methodologies and overlap them with the learning and training curriculum.
” We know very well that our environment is different from foreign environment. We have our own peculiarities both social and cultural.
” So being different from the white, we have to do things according to our own culture and religious. DUCAP has come to differentiate us from the way the white people deliver projects.
” It has not been easy in this country concerning projects, a lot of projects become abandoned because a project manager has not been there.
” But when we look at it, maybe it is because of the foreign methodology, so we said let us do our own that will be good considering our environment,” She said
The president called for government support on the realization of DUCAP methodology while also urging the inductees to take the business of project management in the country seriously therefore desisting from using non-professionals in project delivery.
Also, Mr. Henry Mbadiwe, Registrar of the institute, said that the idea of DUCAP was to continually evolve as the country also evolves.
Mbadiwe explained that it was necessary to address gaps in the delivery of projects from every part of the country while also calling for strong institutions for project sustainability.
According to him, DUCAP is the methodology that can change Nigeria. We need the country to begin to do things right in project delivery.
“DUCAP methodology focuses on delivering the project in the Nigeria context. We have a project methodology that has been created by countries of the world.
” But with Nigeria, what we have done is work with a lot of individuals in the academics, professionals fields to look at Nigeria to create a new project management delivery framework for this country.
” A framework that takes into consideration a unique cultural ethnic, religious, and political diversities, it looks at Nigerian own local content.
” It is not just knowledge-based imported from overseas but it is one generated from Nigeria and for Nigerians. It is a very big milestone because we can begin training using this particular framework to the next level of project management.”
He, therefore, called on the government to take pride in human capacity saying that building, cars, assets should not be more important than people.
He added that it was necessary to develop knowledge-based projects that could be exported to other countries as this was the only viable tool for national development.
Education
Athena Centre Appointed to NGREN Board as Federal Government Deepens Data-Driven Governance
Joel Ajayi
The Athena Centre for Policy and Leadership has been appointed to the Governing Board of the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN)/Tertiary Education Research Applications and Services (TERAS). NgREN -Nigeria’s national research and education backbone – provides high-speed connectivity, shared digital services, and collaboration infrastructure for universities and research institutions, while TERAS powers the digital applications that support research, data exchange, and digital learning across the tertiary system.
In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by the center’s Media and Communications Officer Paul Liam.
The new NgREN/TERAS Board was inaugurated by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, and the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, at the Nigeria National EdTech Strategy Mid-Term Co-Creation Workshop, hosted with support from Mastercard Foundation and the World Bank Group.
The Board includes the Executive Secretaries of NUC, NBTE, NCCE, and TETFund; representatives of vice chancellors, rectors, and provosts; and major digital infrastructure stakeholders such as NCC, Galaxy Backbone, and USPF. The Athena Centre joins the Board as the civil society voice.
In his remarks, Dr. Alausa acknowledged the Centre’s role in shaping national transparency reforms, noting that the Ministry’s Federal Tertiary Institutions Governance Transparency Portal (FTIGTP) drew inspiration from Athena’s research and advocacy.
He expressed confidence that the reconstituted Board will deliver measurable improvements within two years to strengthen Nigeria’s research ecosystem and digital readiness.
Representing the Centre on the Board, its Chancellor, Chief Osita Chidoka, OFR, commended the Ministry’s commitment to transparency and evidence-based reform.Reaffirming the Ministry’s digital direction, Dr. Alausa stated: “For the first time, Nigeria is building a unified data architecture for basic, secondary, and tertiary institutions. You cannot reform what you cannot measure, and we are determined to measure what matters.”
Echoing the need for interoperability, Dr. Tijani emphasised the importance of shared digital infrastructure, noting:“Digital transformation fails when systems operate in silos. Our priority is a national architecture where platforms talk to each other and every school is connected.”
Chidoka welcomed the digital innovation underway but stressed the importance of deeper inclusion of state governments, who own and manage most Nigerian schools, in planning, implementation, and financing.
According to him:“For education to succeed, states must invest, lead, and commit. The Federal Government must coordinate and support, but it cannot carry the burden of school management alone.”
The Athena Centre reaffirmed its commitment to supporting federal and state governments in strengthening education data systems, digital governance, and transparent accountability.Media Contact:
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