Nigeria, June 3 -- Just recently, and in a demonstration of institutional support and a signal to institutional progress, the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries (CORFEPS) paid a courtesy visit to my office at the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC). The visit provided another opportunity to deliberate on mutual concerns around the well-being of the federal service, and especially the civil service system and public administration profession in Nigeria.

The visit particularly afforded me another opportunity, for the umpteenth time, to restate my call for the resuscitation and revitalization of the National Association for Public Administration and Management (NAPAM) as a key stakeholder that holds the community of practi...