The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation has reaffirmed its commitment to talent development and industry-academia collaboration through the Executive Industry Immersion Challenge (EIIC) programme organised in partnership with the Nile University of Nigeria Business School.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the four-day programme held at the Corporation’s headquarters in Abuja, the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the NDIC, Thompson Oludare Sunday, described the initiative as a strategic response to the widening gap between academia and the business community.
According to him, the rapidly evolving global workplace demands professionals who possess both theoretical knowledge and practical understanding of corporate realities.
“The Executive Industry Immersion Challenge has provided the NDIC with the opportunity of a practical platform to expose participants to real-world experience in policy formulation, institutional governance and public sector management,” he said.
Sunday reiterated the commitment of the NDIC as a key financial safety-net institution to promoting financial system stability and enhancing depositor confidence in the banking sector.
He urged participants, drawn from the university’s Executive MBA programme, to embrace the values of integrity, transparency, sound governance and ethical leadership.
He stressed that institutions can only sustain public confidence when their operations consistently reflect honesty, accountability and professionalism.
Also speaking, the Project Coordinator for the programme and Director of Research, Policy and International Relations at the NDIC, Ibrahim Aliyu, said the EIIC was deliberately designed as an experiential learning initiative aimed at bridging the gap between classroom theory and industry practice.
In his remarks, the Dean of the Nile Business School, Hauwa Lamido, who was represented by senior faculty member Festus Ekechi, said the institution selected the NDIC for the immersion programme because of its reputation for professionalism, sound corporate governance and integrity within Nigeria’s financial sector.
Ekechi added that the school would work towards incorporating lessons from the immersion exercise into its curriculum to ensure participants apply the knowledge gained in their respective workplaces.
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