The Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria has expressed the need for the country to ensure national development.

During its 2022 annual conference and general meeting with the theme, ‘Envisioning a new aspiration for Nigeria’ in Lagos, the President and Chairman-in-Council, Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria, Mr Alex Enebeli, said, “The essence of this gathering is to prepare Nigerians to be awakened to the reality of our present and the future.

“We have elections coming, it is important for us to envision a new Nigeria and a new Nigeria cannot come in effect if we do not put things right by taking hard decisions about leadership, situation, about our culture, security and the economy. So, our decision in this coming election will define a lot of things. We as an institute hold this annual conference and we use this as an opportunity x-ray the economy, leadership and everything about our environment and country.”

The Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of the ISMNG, and the Chairman of the organising committee of the 2022 annual conference, Mr Abidemi Onajobi, said, “The event is one of our key interventions as our contribution to the national development of our country and environment.

“The conference and AGM of this year is specially packaged especially at this critical time in our national evolution to contribute to our development and to engage stakeholders on the country to go and about the issue of leadership selection in country which is very critical to the development of the country.”

The Vice-Chancellor, Lead City University, Prof. Kabir Adeyemo, who was the chairman of the session, was represented by Prof. Godwin Oyedokun.

He said, “Whatever we have over there, in terms of our country, those charged with the governance and representative of all the citizens.”