PSSDC Collaborate With LASU

The Director-General, Lagos State Public Service Staff Development
Centre (PSSDC), Mrs. Olubunmi Fabamwo, has said that effective
collaboration and networking among state institutions plays critical
roles in government efforts to sustain capacity building across all
sectors of the economy.

The DG stated this during her official visit to the Vice-Chancellor of
the Lagos State University, LASU, Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun at the Ojo Campus of the University, adding that the only way Lagos can
maintain its status as an intellectual hub and capacity building institutions is to collaborate.

She explained that PSSDC was at the institution to further discussions
on a Diploma Programme in Local
Government Studies as well as explore other areas of critical engagement between the two institutions,stressing that the desire of the Center is to collaborate with LASU to disseminate the landmark Human Resource and Leadership reforms of the State to other Public Service establishments in Nigeria and beyond.

While applauding the State Government for its various reforms,
Fabamwo, commended the LASU
management for the institutional reforms currently being undertaken by the University.

Responding, the Vice-Chancellor of LASU,Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun thanked the Center for the visit and expressed readiness of LASU to collaborate with PSSDC to deepen capacity building, adding that the Diploma Programme in question has been approved by the institution’s senate and it is expected to take off soon.

According to him, “I hope both institutions will extend their
collaboration to several areas of
administrative and governance
reforms in the State with a view to
packaging excellent learning and
development interventions that would build human resource and
administrative capabilities across the world using the Lagos State
paradigm.”

Professor Fagbohun reiterated that since he assumed the leadership of
the institution, he has been preaching excellence in all
ramifications, disclosing that the University recently took its new
professors through a re-orientation
programme to inculcate the culture
of excellence in them so as to deepen it particularly in today’s
technology-driven and liberalized workplace.

As a mark of commitment to the
collaboration, both institutions constituted a six-man steering Committee to be led by LASU’s Dean of Management
Sciences, Professor Banji Fajonyomi, to midwife the relationship with
a view to harnessing the expertise of both institutions to deliver a
cocktail of marketable ideas to the mutual benefit of both organisations