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and guidelines relating to public
procurement, development of
procurement law, strategy,
knowledge and elucidation of the
provisions of PPA 2012, through
dedicated procurement training to
staff of the Agency and related public
sector personnel.
The team also visited the Public
Service Staff Development Centre
(PSSDC), Magodo and commended
the efforts of the State Government in
having such facilities at the centre for
the training of its public servants.
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President General, Association of Market Men and Women of Nigeria, Chief (Mrs.)
Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, addressing leaders of market men and women at their weekly
meeting in Alausa, Ikeja recently
PROCUREMENT AGENCY TO
COLLABORATE WITH BANGOR
UNIVERSITY
he Lagos State Public
Procurement Agency is set to
collaborate with the Bangor
University (formerly University of
Northern Wales), United Kingdom, in
the training of its procurement
officers as part of efforts aimed at the
implementation of the Lagos State
Public Procurement Law 2011.
General Manager/Chief Executive
Officer of the Agency, Engr. Akin
Onimole, stated this during the
courtesy visit to the Agency by a
Bangor University team led Professor
Dermot Cahill, Dean, School of Law
and Director of the Institute of
Competition and Procurement
Studies.
He stated that the Institution is the
first University to initiate
collaboration efforts with the Agency
in the area of capacity building and
certification, which is essential to the
procurement cadre in the civil service.
Engr. Onimole noted that the
collaboration is expected to further
strengthen government's capacity
building for procurement officers
which the Agency had commenced
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since 2012 when it was established,
adding that about 250 officers had
been converted into the procurement
cadre in the state civil service.
Also speaking at the event, the
Director – General, Public Service
Staff Development Centre (PSSDC),
Magodo, Mrs. Olubunmi Fabanwo,
commended the collaboration
initiative, stressing that necessary
knowledge and skills would be
acquired by procurement officers, to
further assist them in the discharge of
their official duties and
responsibilities to the state.
Responding on behalf of his team,
Professor Dermot Cahill, stated that
the visit was to offer long and short
term assistance, as well as special
training for procurement officers in
the state public service, adding that
the university is ready to train
leaders in procurement, in order to
further assist government in
identifying procurement problems,
achieve implementable reports, offer
training on procurement
jurisprudence and equally support
the staff with needed materials in
procurement.
He explained that other areas of
collaboration will include
formulation and analysis of policies
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