Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju
Wife’s of Nigeria Immigration Officers celebrating International Women’s Day by providing succour to members and general public.
One hundred and twenty women including have benefitted from the free Breast Cancer screening programme organised by the Immigration Officers’ Wives Association (IMMOWA).
This is just as cash donations have been handed out to families of some vulnerable members of the association, and tuition fee payment made for two children of deceased personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) as well as distribution of 40 grinding machines to some women as part of economic empowerment exercise.
All these were made known during a special national meeting of IMMOWA members at the Service Headquarters Abuja to roll out some economic empowerment programmes for members.
The event which was attended by representatives from all the Chapters of the association across the country was targeted at improving the welfare conditions of vulnerable members of the association as part of activities to commemorate the International Women’s Day.
Speaking at the occasion, the chairperson of the association and wife of the acting Comptroller General Mrs Maryam Isah Jere stated that the association’s Welfare Scheme is to complement the welfare agenda of her husband with special focus on widows and children whose husbands and loved ones passed on while in active Service.
In his remark at the event the acting Comptroller General Isah Jere Idris represented by the Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration in-charge of Passport, ACG Saddat Hassan noted that beyond making the home front peaceful, the association has shown capacity to make impact on the general welfare of the Immigration family.
He thanked the leadership of the association for identifying with the staff welfare programme of his administration while assuring of his renewed commitment to improved motivation and welfare packages for the entire workforce.
The leadership of the association has pledged commitment to sustaining more economic alleviating programmes for its members as part of its poverty reduction activities.
Other speakers at the conference were Deepti Jain, the Agile Transformation Strategist & Founder, Agile Virgin, who delivered a presentation on “You Get the Behaviour That You Measure”; Evan Leybourn, the CEO/ Founder Business Agility Institute, who spoke on “Evolving Impact of Tech on Agile Transformations”, Quincy D. Jordan, the Director – Innovate,
AgileThought, delivered a presentation on the topic “Leadership for The Modern Business”, and Martin Hinshelwood,
Scrumorg Professional Scrum Trainer & Microsoft MVP Development Tools, who delivered a presentation on “Is HR the Most Important Enabler of Agility?”
The rest are Myles Hopkins, the CEO/Founder, BeAgile, Molood Ceccarelli, the CEO/ Founder, Remote Forever, Timm Urschinger, Co-Founder & CEO LiveScience AG, Dr Fady Ismaeel, an Agile Evangelist from MCIT, Eliana Philip-Amulum, an Enterprise Agile People Advisor from TAAA, John Munro, a Disciplined Agile Enterprise Client Lead (PMI), Mun-Wai-Chung, a Business Agility Consultant, MunWai Consulting; Omo Osemwegie, the Project Delivery Lead, Access Bank, Pete Omotosho, Enterprise Agile Coach from Pete Lauren Consulting; Itopa Sule, the Business Agility Advisor, PST – Adaptiflo, Carol Ariyibi, Agile & Career Coach, PMO Director & Change Leader – Sterling Bank Plc, Wole Oyeneran, an Enterprise Technology & Performance Leader from Deloitte, Itohan Iyalla, the Head of Growth, eBanqo Inc., Jorge Luis Castro Toribio DevOps & QA Program Manager, Test Manager and Agile Coach – NTT DATA, Marco Eijsackers, the Global Head of Digital transformation, ING, Mohamed Amr Abdelkader Abdelfattah, the Co-Founder and Principal Consultant, Agile Academy (Dubai, UAE), John Okoro, the Director Auspicious Agile & Blockchain Pte Ltd, Ady Dike, the Enterprise Agile Coach, BP, Ceren Yildirim, the Agile Coach, Ericsson, Mary Laniyan, the Agile Coach, Ovilan Consulting Ltd, Princess Edo-Osagie, a Payment Expert, DevOPS Advocate, Strategy Execution on Agility, and Carl Starendal, the We Are Movement Founder & SAFE Fellow.
The speakers emphasised the roles of technology, people, and processes in meeting customers’ expectations in a changing business environment. For instance, Martin Hinshelwood explained that reliance on the traditional education model in nurturing the modern workforce could lead to a misalignment in the skillset demand in the present marketplace. Mun-Wai-Chung expatiated on how management can induce efficiency in key operational areas to derive outstanding results. Molood Ceccarelli spoke glowingly on how utilizing tech work tools in managing the distance work arrangement could boost productivity level; stimulate rewarding experiences and relationships in the Work-from-Home era.
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