The National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) has just inaugurated a new Director General in the person of Brigadier-General Dogara Ahmed who as I write must
have listed out the core of his agenda following the handing over of the mantle of leadership by the Acting DG, Mrs Christiana Uba around 11am today.
One of the online newspapers in Abuja stated that the NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, confirmed to them on Sunday that Brigadier-General Ahmed will officially be assuming office as the new DG Monday today by 11am which has already happened as I write. The three months or so she took over from the ethically challenged hierarchy that was in place can be adjudged as heroic.
The letter noted that some of the petitions against the disgraced DG Brigadier-General Fadah queried his academic qualifications and age, adding that the board had earlier called and spoken to the DG concerning the allegations “but failed to fulfil his promise to change.” The new DG is lucky to have some of the finest senior Directors to work with who are patriotic, professional, efficient and effective in their own capacities. I got to admire the NYSC when a big contractor gave me a hint of how transparent the procurement system is in the NYSC especially under the past DG Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim who is now a Major General.
If you don’t have something to say, don’t set up a meeting just to make a contact. A contact who is really worth having will respond to your I just wanted to meet you’ by making sure you never meet again. The author wrote also that: “I had tried to call him from my Chicago hotel, but he was unavailable, and he once had asked where he could reach me. I had said that I would be either in the hotel or in the office of A. C. Spectorski, editor at that time of Playboy magazine.
But as a general rule you are far better off having meetings at your own office. This has very little to do with ‘power offices’ and everything to do with territorial imperative, Even if all you have is a ‘power cubicle’, it is still best to meet on your own turf. The last but obviously the most fundamental point on achieving success in leadership, the new DG must Mean What he Says. Trust is very important.
I say to him: “If you say you will return a call the next day and you don’t that’s enough to influence an entire relationship. There’s no business law that says you ever have to return any phone call, just don’t say you will.” This trust issue is critical given that some persons very influential in the society are already canvassing position detrimental to the continuous existence of the NYSC.
To conclude, I will recall just a few speeches made by very important people about the concrete milestones made by Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim as DG of NYSC. The Governor who paid glowing tribute to General Shu’aibu, admitted that the DG worked hard to deserve his elevation especially in the area of empowering corps members through Skills acquisition and entrepreneurship development, reinvigoration of NYSC ventures and ensuring provision of a comprehensive documentation of NYSC activities and interventions in national development agenda.
Minister of Youth and Sports Development , represented by his Permanent Secretary Alh Isma’ila Abubakar commended the Director General for providing the required leadership which motivated staff to support him in achieving the successess recorded. He urged him not to relent in his efforts to further elevate the NYSC Sheme to greater heights.
“All I have achieved in life was as a result of prayers of those I have come across in the course of my life”, he stated.
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