Nigeria image: Group trains NIS personnel for leadership and emotional intelligence

 Senior Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) officers have been trained on leadership and emotional intelligence skills for enhanced efficiency service delivery.

The Global Transport Policy (GTP) Training Academy organised the training on Friday in Lagos.

The Chief Consultant of GTP, Dr Segun Musa, said the gesture was part of his academy’s efforts to improve on the image of Nigeria to the outside world.

According to Musa, the Immigration Officer’s desk, being the first point of contact by visitors coming into the country, it is expected that it exudes the best possible leadership skills before visitors.

He said that the training was part of GTP’s free workshop interaction series for critical institutions in Nigeria with high level of interpersonal contact with the populace.

“The first impression matters most and it goes a long way to the international communities.

“If you don’t equip the personnel with necessary capacity to give us the needed image, definitely they won’t get it right.

“This will send wrong signals to the rest of the world. We want Nigeria to be the best in terms of reception at the point of entry into the country. This is the purpose of the workshop,” he said.

Musa further said that the training would afford the officers the knowledge and capacity to do well and be the best globally.

He said that the officers were expected to train others in their various departments, so as to spread the knowledge and capacity to all sections of the service.

Dr Mosunmola Onilede, the Assistant Comptroller-General/ Zonal Coordinator of Immigration, Zone A, said that training on leadership and emotional intelligence was very important for the service.

Onilede, represented by Deputy Comptroller of Immigration, Mrs Gabriella Owoh, said that workshop contents would make positive impact on the operations of the service.

She commended GTP for the training, urging the personnel to put to use all that they had gained from the workshop