The chairman, Governing Board of the Nigerian Prize for Leadership (NPL), Prof. Anya O. Anya, said the award would be bestowed annually on role models that had distinguished themselves in service to humanity.
Anya stated this recently in Abuja when the technical team mandated to design criteria for the selection of winners of Nigerian Prize for Leadership (NPL) submitted its report to the governing board.
He said, “Good leadership opens a variety of great and powerful doors. But leaders do not just emerge automatically; leaders are raised through deliberate education, mentoring, training and discipline.
“This is why we are so passionate, determined and deliberate to put in place a credible platform to identify, recognise and honour persons that have excelled in leadership in Nigeria. This move will raise a successor generation of leaders of excellence with character, integrity, competence and courage.”
Presenting the report, chairman of the team, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, said the team conceived global best practice criteria for measuring entries and nominations and selecting winners of the annual prize.
He said NPL would focus on eight key component criteria and 45 indicators for measuring leadership excellence in the Nigerian ecosystem.
Ibidapo-Obe listed them as the ability to understand the impact of leadership on the society, sacrifice, character, role modelling/mentoring and creativity.
Also speaking, the executive secretary, NPL, Dr Ike Neliaku, said the annual prize was part of efforts to address the leadership challenge confronting the country.
According to him, this is a deliberate effort to generate new leadership culture in the country.
