As the race for the 2023 change in power intensifies, the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), llorin, has announced that it has prepared its maiden strategic plan for unveiling by President Muhammadu Buhari in the last quarter of 2022.
The Director-General of the institute, Mr Issa Aremu made this statement on Saturday in Ilorin during a news conference organised to kick-start programmes for the institute’s 40th anniversary.
According to him, the presidential unveiling will precede public presentation of the institute’s roadmap aimed at repositioning it for efficient and effective service delivery. He also noted that though the institute would clock 40 years in 2023, the management deemed it fit to earmark activities for the next one year to be able to showcase its success stories on industrial union matters.
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He said the institute’s anthem was also to be designed and unveiled in commemoration of the anniversary, adding that it is incredible that there was no such in the last four decades of its existence.
The director-general also disclosed that the MINILS would remodel the gallery of Imoudu and institute annual lecture in his honour to bring to fore the contributions of the labour leader to national development and in deepening democracy in Africa.
Besides, he said the institute would endow an Imoudu scholarship for unionists that would be studying industrial relations at the MINILS.
Aremu noted that the institute was conceived in accordance with the national development plan, but lamented the attitude of some citizens to the country’s development.
He, however, promised that his administration planned to have more projects, such as administrative blocks and hostels for trainees at the institute.
The MINILS chief executive officer thanked Buhari for appointing him as the fifth director-general of the institute, promising to improve its fortunes.
“Our institute was established in 1983 during the administration of President Shehu Shagari but took effect in September 1984 and was named after Pa Michael Imoudu in 1992 by the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
“As part of the 40th anniversary, MINILS will remodel the gallery of Imoudu and institute an annual lecture in his honour to bring to the front burner the contribution of the labour leader to national development and in deepening democracy in Africa.
“We intend to endow an Imoudu scholarship for unionists that study industrial relations in the institute. We are also using the medium to announce a one-year programme to celebrate the institute’s 40th anniversary,” he said.
