As part of efforts to
promote best professional practices in management and enhance service delivery in the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), the Vice Chancellor of UNIPORT, Professor Joseph Ajienka has urged staff to take interest in membership of professional bodies to enhance productivity in the institution.
Professor Ajienka, who stated this when the National Executive Committee of Nigeria Institute of Management were in UNIPORT to inaugurate the school’s chapter of NIM, recently said “We need to build a proper bridge so that professionalism would be encouraged.
According to him, the university hope to collaborate with the NIM for improved manpower development and full capacity utilisation aimed at improved productivity.
My advice to our colleagues is for them to take interest in professional bodies. The benefits  of membership are enormous. We will like to benefit from the training programmes of the NIM,” he stated.
“We are desirous to be fully functional chapter of the Institute that would contribute its abundant intellectual capacity for the benefit  of NIM. It would avail  us the opportunity to train a lot of staff, and if staff are properly trained, the system would survive and grow better.
Professor Ajienka, who is a fellow of the NIM stressed the importance of training and re-training to human resources in any organisation, maintaining that the institute has played a major role in assisting the university achieve the objectives.
He noted that the inauguration of the UNIPORT Chapter of the NIM would yield more benefit to growth.
Earlier, in his address, the National President of the NIM, Dr. Nelson Gwaga, who commended the authorities of UNIPORT for being NIM-friendly, said that the institute has a lot of programmes which the university would benefit from, adding  that the institute would come up with a full package in the areas of collaboration that would benefit staff of the university.
Dr Gwaga, particularly commended the Vice Chancellor for his vision which has brought a lot of innovation in the university.
“The VC has not stopped looking for what can improve the university. In recent times, we have been talking about entrepreneurship and that is what the administration is doing here,” he added.