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By Guardian Nigeria
24 August 2024 | 2:05 am
The President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr. Ike Neliaku, has tasked youths to focus on serving the country, as against personal gains, as a way of leaving legacy for the next generation.
President NIPR, Ike NeliakuThe President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr. Ike Neliaku, has tasked youths to focus on serving the country, as against personal gains, as a way of leaving legacy for the next generation.
Speaking on the topic, “Effective Public Sector Leadership: Tools, Styles and Public Relations Techniques,” at the third edition of Legislative Mentorship Initiative (LMI) in Abuja on Thursday, Neliaku said the “country’s development has been largely stunted on the account of personal gains above national interest.”
“Our nation is the way it is today because only a few persons serve from the interest of nation. No nation moves forward where those in leadership positions only think of what benefits them, their religious organisations and their ethnic communities.
We must place Nigeria first as those who want to be successful leaders in the nearest future,” he noted.
The NIPR boss, while highlighting factors that have hampered the growth of leadership in Nigeria, also challenged influential traditional and religious leaders to encourage their subjects in leadership positions to do the right things, rather than arm-twisting them to take decisions that do not serve the general interest of the country.
While encouraging the participants at the event to do away with selfishness, ethnicity and religious considerations, Neliaku further challenged them to imbibe resilience, knowledge, effective communication and emotional intelligence as leadership tools.
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The President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr. Ike Neliaku, has tasked youths to focus on serving the country, as against personal gains, as a way of leaving legacy for the next generation.
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