NIGERIAN ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

The NEL concept is to help recognize as well as inspire gifted leaders, in businesses, who foster high ethical standards with regards to manufacturing entrepreneurship, and recognize the importance of building a spirit of partnership between government and businesses. The Nigerian Entrepreneurial Leadership’s mission is simple — To enhance the quality of professional leadership in manufacturing and increase the understanding the importance of manufacturing leadership in a nation’s economic growth.

NEL is part of a larger effort to rewire the minds of Nigeria’s future leaders. The goal is to create a new breed of managers — not just smart technocrats but true quality business executives and entrepreneurs versed in the logic of modern market and equipped with the skills to compete in a freewheeling global economy.

The principal activities of the Nigerian Entrepreneurial Leadership are educational in nature and include seminars, scholarship and a highly prestigious annual award. All of the NEL’s programs are conceived, implemented and reviewed by the Board of Governors and its Officers, who serve actively on one or more committees. Committees plan and execute the annual NEL Award Dinner and the Entrepreneurial Development Seminar Series, Solicit and select NEL scholars, and oversee the continuing governance of the organization. Governors of the organization’s 10-member board are appointed to serve three-year terms.

In its effort to accomplishing this goal, NEL will forge partnership with Nigeria’s business schools; involving prominent business persons to teach courses; and solicit cash and advice from multinational giants interested in the Nigerian market.

At NEL, we believe that Nigeria needs a different kind of leadership; a leadership that will provide welcoming manufacturing environment, that include constant supply of water and energy, and root out  factors contributory to the negative perception on Nigeria. These basic needs for manufacturing economy will definitely encourage and enhance the quality of manufacturing entrepreneurial leadership that the organization envisioned.

NEL also believes that Nigerian Leadership in Entrepreneurship should be seen as a public good which depends on private character. It is difficult to practice public good in an environment that lacks basic amenities such as energy and water. Lack of these basic needs in an environment, creates more spectators than citizens, hence the lack of Entrepreneurial Leadership in Manufacturing.

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