The Directorate of the Human Resources Development Centre, University of Lagos (HRDC-UNILAG) and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (CIPSMN) have renewed their partnerships in the provision of quality manpower training and capacity development for different individuals, groups and bodies in the public and private sectors of the economy.

This was when the Director/ Head of HRDC, Dr Lateef Odekunle led university team to engage the management of CIPSMN at the Lagos Office of the Institute.

He said: “In a bid to revitalise the long-lost partnership, we wrote to the institute, and we were invited to discuss the way forward. I’m happy that we were able to discuss the suspended collaborative arrangements. The likely issues that led to the fall or collapse of that collaboration were discussed, and then we agreed that henceforth, we should come back together to revitalise what appeared lost and create a kind of a robust strong strategy for future and thriving collaboration that will stand the intended purpose.”

He said such collaboration will expand the frontier of the manpower training provided by both organisations, stressing it will expand the share of the market in quality manpower training and capacity development for both organisations and the country in general.

Odekunle explained that the collaboration between the two organisations has become necessary to engage in the provision of requisite manpower professional training for the nation and her organisations.

“As you know, we are a capacity-building centre for the University of Lagos. The institute is also established by an Act of Parliament as a professional body to provide human capacity-building as well. The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria and the HRDC University of Lagos used to have collaboration, however, somewhere along the line; the collaboration broke down for reasons beyond our control.

“We saw in the record as we came on board that there was an existing collaboration,” he said.

On what the public should expect in the forms of training for professionals from diverse backgrounds, the HRDC-UNILAG Director said the manpower training that will be provided by both organisations is beyond procurement alone.