The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman has charged the Executive and Management teams of the Organization to work harder in order to make Nigerian Ports competitive, efficient, effective and up-to-date in global best practices technologically advanced and modern in every sense of the word.
Speaking at a Management retreat organized by Messrs Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from the United State of America (USA) on Wednesday, 26th April, 2017 at the Avenue Suites, Lagos, Usman added that on assumption of duty, she took it upon herself “the challenges of pursuing reform measures aimed at instituting best practices that would ensure ease of doing business in our operating and administrative processes”.
She maintained that she has strong confidence in the caliber of workforce in NPA which are highly educated, trained and exposed in a well-established organizational structure, maintaining that time has come for NPA to do things differently and in accordance with global accepted standard if we are serious about being globally competitive.
The one day strategy Management retreat had in attendance, all Executive Directors, General Managers and a cross section of high level Managers of the federal agency.