Professor Ferdinand effectively argues that psychological maturity is just as critical as technical expertise for effective national leadership. His focus on self-regulation provides a practical guide for maintaining stability and making sound decisions under extreme pressure.
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United Arab Emirates. Federan is a master practitioner in neurallinginguistic program NLP and emotional intelligence with a strong focus on helping individuals and organizations harness emotional awareness, self-regulation and relationship management as critical drivers of career growth, leadership acceleration and personal effectiveness.
His approach in integrate technical skills with emotional int engage more effectively build trust and influence outcomes in complex business environments. He's a certified negotiator and trainer, a fellow of Institute of Certified Sales Professional and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Training and Development.
Federinagard serves on the faculty of Teedia Institute, USA and has been invited on several occasions by Le Business School to facilitate executive level sessions.
He's the author of six best-selling books, including the critical pillars of using anger productively, the critical pillars of making quality contacts and connections, the critical pillars of achieving excellence in life business and career and the critical pillars of sales excellence.
His other works includes XY Z of business and social networking. The critical pillars of making high impact self presentation and the critical pillars of targeting target prospecting final coach and performance improvement expert. He has empowered thousands of professionals across diverse sectors to enhance their personal effectiveness, sales capability and leadership impact. His expertise is sought by financial institutions, insurance companies, telecommunication firms, energy companies and government agencies where he delivers tailored competency development and process engineering interventions.
is the president of Rice Selection Limited and the managing director CEO of selling skills support services limited with operational offices in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. He previously served as the managing director CEO of Ice Limited as a pioneer managing director of FM Marketing Network Limited. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I want to hand over the microphone to no other person than Mr. Federinzi to speak to us on emotional intelligence for today's professional accountant.
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>> Okay. Um my apologies. I don't know what happened. So, I'd like to thank you very much for um that introduction and particularly thank um Dr. Jones and um Pumola for providing me with this platform. Uh I'm sure you all know that emotional intelligence is a very very very broad topic. Um we can discuss emotional intelligence for 30 days, 8 hours of the day and we still can't scratch the surface of that very broad topic. And so I have 30 minutes and I have about 15 minutes to take your questions. So what I'll do therefore is to provide you with the right framework that would begin to interrogate help you to interrogate what your thoughts are already about emotional intelligence and how this very important um skill and attitude would impact your success in life both as a professional and more importantly as a human being. Okay. So even though the topic says emotional intelligence for for accountants um it's emotional intelligence is not a mindset is not an attitude it's not a skill that is um you know boxed into a profession.
So you don't have emotional intelligence for accountants and then you have emotional intelligence for sales people or for doctors. But once you acquire emotional intelligence, it's something you can apply across every aspect of your life. I'll be sharing the slides um with Fumola and I hope she will share them with you uh because we're just going to discuss frameworks and not the content that is required for you to understand this very important um topic.
So my name is Ferdinand Ferdinand.
Um I've written extensively and researched extensively in the area of emotional intelligence. But I want to start by asking you a question. That question is if you were to use one word to describe life in Nigeria today, just one word. What one word would you use to describe life in Nigeria today? Anybody?
you can type um go to the chat room and share your thoughts or you can raise your hand and share with me what one word would you use to describe living in Nigeria today. So I'm seeing stressful, I'm seeing tough, I'm seeing chaotic, I'm seeing challenging, I'm seeing exhaustive, I'm seeing pressure, I'm seeing uncertainty, I'm seeing frustration, I'm seeing uh pressure again. Now, those are very apt words that describe living in Nigeria today.
But I'm just going to pick one of the words that I've seen used repeatedly in the chat room and that is pressure.
Okay. So, when you say pressure, the next thing I would like to ask you is where do these pressures come from?
Where do these pressures come from? You can again type it out in. So family.
Yes, I'm seeing family. I'm seeing work.
I'm seeing bills.
Yeah. What else? Expectations.
Fantastic.
Okay. Fantastic. Okay. So the next question is what do these pressures produce?
What do they produce? So pressure from government, from bills, from government, from work, from family, what did they produce? So I'm seeing stress. I'm seeing fear of unknown. Yes. What else do they produce? I'm seeing anger, frustration, uncertainty. Okay. Awesome.
Now the next question is where does it hit you first? So you have pressure produced from work, from government, from family, from the environment. And now my question is so and it produces anger, frustration, despair and all of that. The next question is where does it hit you first?
Your mental health. I'm saying mental health. Yes. What else? Where does it hit you? Your emotion. I'm saying emotion. Okay. So, let's use that word emotion.
So if the first place that pressure hits you is your emotional, it therefore means that your IQ may not be sufficient for you to address the issues that speak to your emotion.
Now IQ is very important. I'm sure we know what IQ is. It's a measure of your intelligence, is a measure of your aptitude.
So when you wrote common entrance while you in primary school to gain admission to secondary school what was tested was your IQ.
When you wrote JAM and WK and Niko to gain admission to university what was tested was your IQ.
In trying to make a first class or second class in university what was primarily tested was your IQ.
What was tested when you wrote I can is IQ.
When you wrote your first aptitude test and you were shortlisted for that first job of yours, when you were invited for the interview, the primary thing 90% of the things that were being tested spoke to your intelligence, your IQ and your first second level promotions most times in the work environment are all measures of your competence, your knowledge and your skills. And those essentially speak to your IQ.
But now when you start work, when you begin to live in a country like Nigeria and perhaps across the world and presently in the UK and it's not very clear to Nigeria. Yesterday in the city where I am in the UK, somebody jumped from the bridge into and and died.
So the pressures that you leave are not things that can be addressed with your first class in university.
They're not things that can be addressed with your being the best accountant.
They're important, but after a while, most of the things that you'll encounter in life will speak to your emotion.
And therefore means that the intelligence that you require to address those issues will be beyond your intelligent quotient. It will be about your emotional quotient.
Let me share something with you.
You see the things that you mentioned anger, frustration, stress, suicide, hopelessness that you said speak to your emotion.
They don't start with your emotion.
They start what we call triggers.
Those triggers can either be in word or in action. Let me give you an example.
You submit a report that you think is an excellent report to your manager, to your boss, and he says to you, "Who wrote this report?" And you say, "Miss sir," and he sees you're an idiot.
You are just a recruitment error.
How did he bring you here?
Now, that's a trigger.
That's a trigger. Is an action.
it to cause you pain.
Now that pain is not what will determine what you will do.
The trigger can also be a physical action. So if I slap you, it will cause you pain. If a mway driver hits your brand new car from the back, it will cause you pain.
If you tell your wife, "You're coming back early and I'm very hungry. I'm coming with my friends. clicks cook for me and you get home and the food is not ready. It will cause you pain. But what you will do on account of that pain is not because of the trigger.
That pain would hit your emotion, hit your mind, hit your thoughts.
How you process that emotion, how you interpret the trigger and the pain are the things that would determine the actions that you take. Whether you react or you respond and reaction and response have consequences.
So what is emotion? Therefore, emotion is your interpretation of the triggers and pains that you experience in everyday life that will be responsible for how you either react or respond that would therefore impact on the quality of the life that you live. So, let me break that down for you. Let's go back to our example with your boss.
Your boss calls a report that you've taken so much time to research and produce terrible and calls you useless cause you a recruitment error. It causes you pain and emotional pain.
Now if you interpret that his word as a challenge for you to improve even in the midst of the pain caused by those words and you say this is a challenge for me to become the best report writer in this company. What would you do? you will despite his unprofessional feedback to you, go and evaluate that report to identify the things that made him use those words on you. And in subsequent reports, you would ensure that those mistakes are not repeated. And if you constantly do that, you become the best report writer that can impact your career, not just in that company, but for the rest of your life.
However, if in the midst of the pain caused by that trigger, that feedback, you begin to interpret it as this man is arrogant, doesn't know who I am, he doesn't like me here, he wants to frustrate me, frustrate me here. What would you do? You leave that place with your pride and ego influencing the action that you take.
And that's why some people would go and either send in their resignation letters even when they are not ready. You know why? Because their emotion has beed their judgment.
At that point in time, your first class in the university, your being the best charted accountant, your MBA, your PhD would have no impact in the choice that you make and the consequences there from. It will be your emotion and how you interpret the triggers and the things that speak to your emotion that will determine what you'll do. So there are two things therefore involved in living in the world but more especially living in Nigeria.
They are how you think which is what is aided by your IQ.
The other is how you think under pressure which is what your emotional intelligence would help you to do.
So pressure reveals what you do and what you do is a function of your EQ. So when two people face pressure and they they respond to those pressures differently, it's a measure of their EQ because most times the things the actions that we take are not rational actions. Even how we spend our money most times are driven by emotion not by rationality.
That's why every new phone that is sold, you buy.
There are no new functions in the new phone that you buy, but you still buy.
Why? Emotion.
Your friend calls you a monkey, you laugh.
Some somebody another person calls you a monkey, you get angry. Why? The same word, monkey. Why did you laugh when your friend called you a monkey?
Because your emotion told you it was a joke. It was humor. That's why you laughed.
And that person calls you a monkey. You think is an insult. What has happened?
Your emotion has set in.
So what's emotional intelligence?
Therefore, emotional intelligence is simply your ability to understand, regulate, and control your emotion.
whilst also being able to control the impact of other people's emotion on you.
So being that there are two dimensions to emotional intelligence. The first dimension is what we call your intrapersonal relationship with yourself which is your ability to understand your emotions regulate those emotions and control the actions that you take based on your emotions. That's one A. 1 B is your ability to also understand and control the impact of other people's emotions that you can't control on you.
How do I mean? So the first part is I'm not going to raise my voice today.
Whatever the mole driver does on the street, whatever my boss says to me today, I will control myself. Yeah, that's one aspect. The other aspect is I don't know the emotional state of that rider. So when he hits my car and it causes me emotional pain, my ability to control the impact of another person's emotion on me.
I don't know why my boss is calling my report a terrible report. I don't know what he has gone through. So, while I'm going to control how I respond to his negative feedback on my report, it's also important that I make sure that I don't allow his own emotional situation to impact the quality of my own life. And that's where most of us miss it.
The primary predicament is that we don't understand our emotion.
The other bigger predicament is that we want to allow other people's emotion to impact us.
So somebody is angry and calls you a monkey.
Your mind does not say to you, am I a monkey?
If I'm not a monkey, then the person calling me a monkey needs help. And you don't get angry to somebody who needs help.
But when you allow being called a monkey to your emotion, you will jump up and call that person a monkey also and you start fighting.
So emotional intelligence therefore has two dimensions like I've mentioned in passing. The first dimension is your intrapersonal relationship with yourself and that has two components. The first component is selfawwareness.
understanding yourself, but more importantly understanding your emotional self.
When you get home and you had pre-informed your wife to get your food ready and you get home and the food is not ready, selfawareness is why am I angry and what am I angry about? Am I angry that my food is not ready or am I angry that my wife is taking me for granted?
Now, understanding that why would impact how you either react or respond because you've severally gone to a restaurant and food was delayed by 30 minutes, 1 hour. What did you do? You ordered another bottle of beer and you waited for the food to be served and you still tipped that waitress.
You didn't raise your voice at her. You didn't slap her. So you get home and your wife delays your food by just seven minutes and you raise your voice and you refuse to eat the food and you don't spit out for the next 30 days.
But what happened when you went to the restaurant? So the question is why am I angry now and what am I angry about?
Now why is important in self-awareness.
Why am I broke?
An important question when you're passing through emotional crisis called by your financial caused by your financial state. But more important question is what has made me broke?
Because once you understand the what, you'll be amazed at how the things that upset us and things should be l we should be lacking about. Let me give you an another example. On your son's seventh birthday, you buy your son football to celebrate his seventh birthday. He calls you daddy. He jumps on. You're happy.
You don't instruct him that you should not play this football in the pal.
two days after Bayern and um PSG are playing UFI Champions quarterfinal semi-finals and you drive home and you get home you want to watch that football match and you open the door everybody's stolen everybody's withdrawn you're wondering why is the house like this and you look at your console your brand new TV had been broken broken and you what happened? What happened?
What happened? What happened? Your wife says to you, "Oh, Junior just broke the TV with the boy you bought for him."
And you get upset. You have a right to emotional intelligence is why am I angry?
Am I angry at the boy or am I angry at the broken TV?
And what is making me angry?
Is it the boy, the TV, or the football match?
If it's the football match, would spanking this boy, beating this boy, shouting at my wife for not controlling the boy make me watch this ball?
If this answer is no, what do I need to do to address the most important reason making me angry now?
go to my neighbor's house and watch this TV. Use my phone to watch this TV.
Now, what have you now done? You're looking at solution.
Am I saying don't spank that boy? No, I'm not saying that.
But I'm saying understanding the why and the what of your emotional response would regulate the actions that you take in that state.
Now it is that selfawwareness that will leave you to self-management.
Let me give one more example.
Some of us grew up in environment where our mother acquires to our fathers.
So everything the father said the mother did. We live in environment to where our fathers beat up our mothers.
And so we grow up with that history that it's okay to beat my wife. It's okay for my husband to beat me.
Now, if you're not careful, if you're the kind of woman that grew up in that kind of circumstance, if you don't if you don't understand the history behind the actions that you take, that's why you find some women accepting the fact that their husband should beat them.
At the other extreme is why some people would ask for a divorce for every misunderstanding that they have with their husband because in their mind they don't want to live the kind of life that their mothers lived. So the other extreme is they feel it's okay to live the kind of life that their mothers lived. But selfawareness is why am I tolerating this kind of abuse?
and what is the worst that would happen in this circumstance and what should I do to address that issue now those are the things that pass through your mind so you can understand why you're getting angry or why you're living with that situation the second aspect is on the basis of your understanding of the why and the what is how do I now manage myself so second component of emotional intelligence is now self management.
After understanding yourself, the next thing is based on my understanding of myself, how do I now manage my emotions?
While selfawareness addresses the issue of my the triggers of my anger, the triggers of my emotion and the impact of those triggers in the action that I will take. Self-management is my ability to now regulate the action that I will take, regulate my impulses, regulate the animalistic tendencies that is now found in many people around us in Nigeria. What are those animalistic tendencies?
Ana rider brushes your car. You come out and see the small dent on your car and you block the whole Todd Milan bridge.
At that point, you're not asking yourself what is making me angry? Why am I angry? And what is making me want to act the way I'm acting now? If I block Melan Bridge and stop every other person from passing through that road, has that addressed the issue of the scratch car.
So self-management is when you understand the why and the what, you now regulate the action that you take consciously.
That is when you now allow your IQ, your rationality to now begin to help you to decide on the actions that you take.
Otherwise, your emotion if it's not matured would help would cause you to take the wrong actions.
I'm going to come back to this. Now, the other aspect of emotional intelligence is now your interpersonal relationship with people. Now, remember how I defined emotional intelligence? It's your ability to understand yourself, control your emotions whilst also being able to understand and control the impact of other people's emotion on you. Now the interpersonal aspect of emotional intelligence speak to your relationship with other people. Interpersonal relationship and the first component of that domain is social awareness. Now, social awareness is your ability to understand the why and the what of other people's actions. And this is where it begins to get interesting.
I always say to people that the Okada rider has a right to behave like an Oka rider. You don't have a right to be like an Oka rider.
Your boss has a right to shout.
whether he's right or wrong is immaterial.
Social awareness is the understanding that there might be reasons beyond people that cause them to act the way they act. So when I say that the rider or the mole driver has a right to be rough on the road, has a right to take one way.
You don't have that right. Why the mule driver has taken he has taken shway. He has taken a bottle of hot drink before he started riding that day. You did not.
The mo driver the damn driver did not go to university. Your chartered accountant.
The danful driver has to do 10 trips to able to make enough money to return to the owner of the vehicle and have something to take home to the family.
They were driving home to go and sleep.
So if the mole driver, if the dful driver, the driver behaves like an Okada driver, why do you with your first class, with your icon, with your FCA, with everything that you have, behave like that rider.
Your sevenyear-old child has a right to break your TV with the ball you bought for him on his seventh birthday.
You don't have the right to bring yourself to the level where your reaction to that sevenyear boy's action is almost equal to his own action.
So I jokingly always say that your wife has a right to nag just as your dog has a right to back.
You don't have a right to be angry that your dog barks.
You don't have to be angry that your wife nags.
So social awareness is understanding that people act in the way they act because of their circumstance and their history.
And that you must factor their circumstance and their history into how you respond to them.
So if you if you manage of a company and you employ a a school start holder or you employ somebody fresh out of you service, do you expect that person fresh out of you service to be as competent as you are when it has taken you 30 years taken you icon taken you PhD taken you be managing director to be as competent as you are.
If you expect that level of competence from that new employee, then you're wicked.
So, social awareness is the realization of the fact that an entry level graduate has a right to make mistakes which you should not make because if you expect that person to behave at a level or to function at your own level, then the person should be earning what you're earning and enjoying the privileges that you enjoying as managing director. That's social awareness.
The absence of social awareness is why you find somebody driving a brand new car, their car, and remove their jacket and start fighting an AA rider.
Social awareness is when the rider hits your car, you come out and see the dented car, it causes you pain.
Emotional intelligence says to you, would you rather be the rider or be the owner of the brand new car that has scratched? Which would you prefer?
Do you think that rider is tied?
Your house help to behave like a house help. You don't have a right to give her the kind of feedback you're giving her, making her think that she ought to have owned or ought to have earned a PhD before being a househel. You brought her from the village. So why do you expect her to behave like a city girl, that social awareness?
So the combination of your understanding of yourself, your self-awareness, the asking of the why and the what questions and your regulation of your emotion.
An understanding of other people's circumstances that also causes their own emotional outburst and the actions that they take is what will culminate in effective relationship between you and yourself and you and other people. And that essentially is what emotional intelligence is all about. So let's break this down before I take your questions.
Emotional intelligence is how you think and act under pressure because pressure is inevitable.
Now pressure is caused by living.
The fact that you alive means that you face pressure. The pressure will be made manifest in so many ways.
Suicide is a function of pressure not properly handled.
Frustration is a result of pressure not well handled.
Most divorces, most resignations when you're not ready.
most broken relationships.
The crowd that you find in our churches without any equal religioity is a result of pressure not well handled.
So the absess of emotional intelligence is why we are transpiring our pressure to other things whether anger or alcohol or suicide or going to church or going to mosque.
It means therefore that the first key thing in emotional intelligence is selfawwareness.
Trying to understand ourselves. When somebody says to you, "Do you know who I am?"
That question is not really asking you, "Do you know who I am?" What they're asking you is, "Do you know what I am?
Do you know I can call the general to arrest you now?
Do you know I can seek you? Do you know I am your boss?"
But emotional intelligence says to you that who you are is not a function of what you are.
Who you are is what you become when what you have or what you are have been taken away from you.
Have you noticed that most bosses in a work environment who scream do you know who I am at you at work that once they leave that place when they come back to that office they are humblier than they were when they were asking you do you know what who I am because now what they are which triggered the question do you know who I am has been taken away from them.
So who are you? You are what you become when your title, your brand new car, your brand new house have been taken away from you.
So emotional intelligence starts from understanding who you are. Beyond the titles, beyond the title husband, beyond the title wife, beyond the title brand new car owner, beyond the title charted accountant, who are you?
The absence of that understanding is why pride and ego overwhelm us.
And those are the two worst emotions that you can manifest. Pride and ego. So when somebody calls you a monkey that you can laugh at, pride and ego say is an insult and you slap that person.
Self-regulation which is called self-management is the realization that I can behave better than I'm behaving now based on who I am and not what I am.
That I don't have to raise my voice to make a point. I don't have to make noise to make news.
I don't have to slap the other rider to show that I drive a brand new car.
I don't need to buy every brand new phone to show that I'm doing well.
I don't need to change the TV in my house just because my salary has been increased.
I don't have to go and start buying a brand new wig cuz I have to go to a party that I won't spend more than 3 hours in. Self management.
But it starts from understanding that who you are is beyond how you appear.
I don't have to shout at my colleagues in the office to prove I am the boss because who I am is not a function of the title I be in the office. That's self-management but it is further helped by trying to understand people's circumstances and the fact that I wrote an article not too long ago on a journal and it was an article on the place of chance luck and surprise The things that we pride ourselves about most times are circumstantial things.
If you were born in medukree, the things that you believe, you believe now, the way you dress, your thoughts would have been different.
But there was no place where you wrote an entrance exam and passed and then they moved you to a womb of a millionaire and the people that did not pass moved to the womb of papers.
So most of the things that we are proud about are circumstantial things.
So I keep using dful drivers and a riders because they're the people that we despise the most.
But do you think that somebody chose from the day he was when you going to be an rider? If that person had the privilege and opportunities that you have, you probably would have been much more better than you are today. I have social awareness.
The last thing I want to say is about resilience. Now we talk about pressure from family, pressure from the economy, pressure from work, pressure from mother in-laws and father outlaws.
Now all of those things would either we us down or add weight to emotional muscles that help us thrive. And that's where resilience is very important in emotional intelligence.
The key aspect of resilience as it speaks to living in Nigeria is adaptability.
Your ability to adapt to changing situations without allowing them weigh you down.
When you lose your job, it will cause you pain.
Adaptability is the realization that this job has been lost. What do I need to do under that circumstance?
You send in your audit report to a client.
He practically shreds it in your presence and say to you, "If you can't handle this job, let me know. I'll send you somewhere else.
Adaptability is this man is not happy with this report. What do I need to do?
That's resilience.
The absence of resilience is laziness.
And the easiest way to manifest laziness is alcohol, is suicide, is a religion without religiosity.
I'll end with two stories.
Two young men are seated inside the m bus.
The m bus is overcrowded.
People are carrying all manner of stuff inside that m bus. It's raining and the roof of the m bus is leaking and both of them are sitting beside each other. So water is dripping on them, heavy inconvenience, heavy discomfort.
The first young person asked himself, "What do I need to do to break out of this poverty?
Buy myself a car and even employ a driver and enjoy myself in this city."
And the answers begin to come to him. Go back to school, get a better job, save money, start a business, use your mother for rituals, go into kidnapping, go into arm robbery, and he chooses what he wants to do. The second young person under the same circumstance is also asking himself questions. But what's he asking?
Why am I poor now? Who they do me? Why is life so hard on me?
What answers would he get? Your mother is a winch. Is that house you're living in? Is because you dreamt it while you were swimming in your in your dream.
Now, which of these two young boys do you think is likely to do well in life?
The obvious answer is the first young person. Why? He asked, what do I need to do to break out of this poverty?
Second person asked, why am I poor?
It's called framing.
And framing is an emotional regulator.
When you ask, "What do I need to do?"
Responsibility is transferred to you, "What do I need to do to improve the relationship with my husband?
What do I need to do so my bosses can respect me more?
What do I need to do so I can give my family a better quality of life? What do I need to do now that this man has shouted at me? What do I need to do now that this guy has has hit my car?
The option, the other option is why am I broke?
What have you done? You've externalized it. Once you ask why am I broke, your head will go to his economy. Is because P2B is not the president. is because you're in Nigeria. It's because of where you come from. Why is my boss always shouting at me? It's because he doesn't like me.
But he's not shouting at you because he doesn't like you. He's shouting at you because your report is poorly written.
Even if he doesn't like you and your report is well written, he will shout at you.
When you hear that what you ask is what you get, it speaks to your emotional intelligence.
If you ask what do I need to do to be happier, the answers will come. If you ask why am why am I always unhappy? What you will get are the reasons for your unhappiness.
And so how you frame circumstances in the midst of my 7-year-old son breaking my TV, what am I happy about having a sevenyear-old son?
Would I rather have a TV that is not broken with no son or have a broken TV with a son?
Would I rather have a job with a bad boss or wake up every morning with nowhere to go?
Would I rather have a husband who snores or a wife who snores than live with loneliness?
Would I rather have a brand new car that is smashed by a rough daffo driver or not have a car?
Would I rather have a noisy neighbor or live in the streets with no house?
and some some of the questions as professionals that we must ask ourselves that would help us manage the inevitable pressure that speak to us living in Nigeria and put pressure on our emotions.
Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen.
>> Oh wow wow wowing ladies and gentlemen let us do some thumb up for Mr. Feder Basil for the what he has out to us in the last 45 minutes. So before we entertain uh questions, let me just do some recap of what we have had from the resource person. So he has told us that emotional intelligence is not a skill is not a mindset is not linked to any profession. It is acquired. So it's a personal trait.
Then he asked us a question that we should describe how living in Nigeria today is. A lot of us gave several responses. It's chaotic. is uncertain isating it's pressure is stressful then equally as us to provide what are the source of the pressure is from family is from several expectation and so on and so forth.
So he said the difference in response to pressure is a measure of our emotional intelligence.
He gave an example of somebody saying you are a monkey. If that person is a friend, you laugh. But if it comes from somebody else, you say it's an insult.
So is our response to pressure is a measure of our emotional intelligence.
Then during the lecture, he define emotional intelligence as the ability to understand, regulate and control our emotion while also controlling the impact of other people's emotion on us.
Then he gave an example of a food delay at home and in a restaurant.
So if our food is delayed at home contrary if the food is delayed in a restaurant we order for more drinks to wait for the food. So that's our response to that delay. So for us to manage the emotion he advise that we must do self awareness and also self management.
So towards the time of conclusion he gave two quotes and I'm going to read them out. He said frustration is the result of pressures that are not well handled. So we become frustrated if we do not handle our pressures well. He also said that absence of residence is laziness.
So dist gentlemen we now want to enterain questions for Mr. Fedard Ezim.
So let us put our questions on the Q&A section or we just do a chat. So let me check the Q&A section if there's any there.
Okay. So I have two questions sir. Are you I don't see there sir. Yes I'm here.
I'm here. I am here. There are two questions on a question and answer box. The first one is from Kingsley Oona.
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How do you manage a toxic boss who is an FCA? FCA means a failure of the Institute of Cha accountant but talks down talks you down on everything makes you feel unc unqualified for anything good. So let me repeat the question sir is from ano.
How do you manage a toxy boss who is a fellow of icon but talks you down and everything and makes you feel unqualified for anything good. So that's the only question we have for now. Maybe you need to respond to that sir.
Okay. The first thing you need to do is first of all change your labeling of your boss. You already label the person toxic. So what do you expect from somebody who is toxic?
It is your expectations that are being fulfilled.
You've labelled somebody toxic. What is toxicity? Poisonous.
So that's the only way the person can react to you because that is to your expectation.
That is your emotional attraction because you have a choice.
You can resign from that place.
But you can't have a boss, a platform that provides you with the resources with which you have make a living and you describe such person as being toxic.
Now, how do you possibly think that you have emotional stability and perform well in that kind of environment?
Because the worst part of what emotional intelligence tells you is that the worst thing to complain about is something you can change.
You either love what you do or you do what you love. Now the reality of of living in Nigeria is that we are compelled to love what we do because not everybody can pursue their passion and pay their bills pursuing their passion which is what doing what you love is. So the first thing you need to do is to ask yourself what does toxicity mean to me? Is it when I don't do a perfect job and it tells me my job is not perfect?
Is that a problem or is it how he tells me?
Very few people are as malicious as we think. I'm not I don't I don't know how many bosses that you deliver consistently very good work, deliver top-notch assignments to and they are still toxic towards you. So start with selfawareness.
Where do I need to improve in this relationship?
Why is this person appearing to be toxic towards me? What can I do that would change that kind of relationship? That's where it has to start from. And then you also apply a social awareness.
Are there circumstances around this person's training and up upbringing that is probably causing him to act that way?
Is it possible that he has not been trained well enough in terms of leadership even though he's an FCA?
Is it possible that he also grew up in an environment where the only place the only way to give feedback was to talk down on people? Now, if that is his history, are you going to blame him for his history? No.
It is your responsibility to make your boss like you. It is not your boss's responsibility to like you. That's emotional intelligence.
Thank you very much.
>> Thank you very much sir for your response. So the last question from in how do you handle the supervisors that feels inferior?
Now again that is labeling. You see these are two extreme questions. Now the first person says my boss is too bossy.
It makes me feel like I'm a nobody. Now you are now asking how do you handle survivor that feels inferior. Maybe because that person is pandering to you a lot. You now think that they are they have inferiority complex. Again that is labeling.
What are the things that this person you know does that has created that impression that you have of them?
Start from there. Why do I think they're inferior?
How does that affect my relationship with him?
So you think it's because you're dressing very well that why the person is inferior. You think because you have your charted account and personal chart account, that's why he's inferior.
That's your interpretation. Is it possible that you're wrong?
And again, it boils down to the fact that labeling people is the foundation for every relationship issues, whether it's at work or at home or on the streets. Take away the label. Focus on their actions.
What does he do that makes you think that this person is inferior? Is it the way the person dresses or the way the person talks or the way the person handles assignments? Start from there and again ask yourself what do I need to do to relate with this professor of mine despite this my labeling of them so that I can achieve my purpose in this organization.
But start from taking away that label.
Those are the kind of right words to use when you're describing people. Toxic, inferior, wicked. Those are not the kind of right words to use when you want to build relationship with other people. I hope that helps.
It does. It does. Thank you very much, sir, for your words of advice, for your lectures. can see a lot of thumb up from over 500 participants who are listening to you. So on behalf of the first president of our institute and the chairman of the young academy development committee, we thank you very much for being part of this webinar. So we shall all the best. Thank you very much for coming around. So distinguished and gentlemen we want to move to the second paper for today.
The resource person has been with us all along waiting to take our turn. So the second topic for this webinar is gender inequality in the Nigerian political system. need for increased training for the female accountant.
The resource person is a female accountant and also the current accountant general of cross river states. So before I hand over the microphone the bit to her, let me just read a brief profile of Mrs. Nor is a highly accomplished financial expert, humanitarian and public administrator.
He's currently serving as accountant general of crossover state with a career spanning decade in accounting, finance and public service. She has distinguished herself as a leader committed to fiscal responsibility, transparency and community development.
She was born into a humble background.
Her journey is a testament to pres perseverance, excellence and unwavering commitment to academic and professional growth. She pursued her education with determination earning a doctorate degree in accounting solidifying her expertise in financial management and governance.
She's also a charter accountant, a fellow of the history of charter accountant of Nigeria, a fellow of the association of national accountant of Nigeria, a fellow of Nigerian statistician association, registered member of the financial reporting council of Nigeria. A specialization in forensic accounting further underscores a proficiency in financial auditing, fraud detection and risk management.
Dr. Dr. Glory's career has been marked by a deep commitment to professionalism, accountability and excellence in public finance.
As the atant general of Cross River State, she plays a critical role in ensuring the prudent management of the state resources, overseeing financial planning, budget implementation and fiscal policies that drive economic stability and growth. Her expertise in forensic auditing has been instrumental in strengthening financial governance, promoting transparency and cing financial practices in public sector.
Her leadership extends beyond financial management. She is a mentor and role model to aspiring professionals particularly women in finance and governance. She has championed initiatives aimed at empowering women and youth through financial literacy, entrepreneurship programs and capacity building workshops.
Dr. Glory is a passionate humanitarian and development advocate.
Her compassion and commitment to social impact have earned her the title of humanitarian ambassador.
Reflecting her dedication to uplifting marginalized communities, she has supported various charitable causes including education sponsorships, healthcare initiatives, poverty elevation programs.
Outstanding contributions to both her profession and humanitarian work have been recognized globally.
Among her numerous accolades, she was recently honored as a polio ambassador by the Rotary Club of IT Calaba acknowledging her contributions to fight against polio and public health advocacy.
She was conferred with a distinction award by Nigeria organization for youth advancement celebrating her role in youth empowerment and national development.
She was the most outight outstanding civil servant of the year 2024 kingdom lover personality award by the go gold city gospel ministry international award of recognition by icon sansa district distinguish excellence award in public financial management and accountability by international organization for human right development and environment south south zone Certificate of integrity stewardship service ambassador by the center for peace and self values orientation. Dr. Glory is not only a leader in finance and material service but also a devoted family woman. She's happily married and blessed with a thriving family balancing her professional responsibility with her personal commitment. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I want to hand over the beat to Dr. Mrs. Glory Tony Fang thean general of crossover states papers on the topic gender inequality in the Nigerian political system the need for increased training for the female accountant over to you doctor you need to unmute now please unmute Sorry, I didn't notice I was still muted.
Good afternoon everyone. Good afternoon.
I can officials and organize this um webinar. I want to apologize because you're going to hear some intermittent noise around. I'm practically representing his excellency today in a function but I had to step out outside the premises to see how I can get this done. I hope um we'll have a good session. I appreciate um professor I called in professor professor Ferdinand for that um presentation earlier on this case the case for inclusion the inclusion of which gender the female gender gender inequality in Nigerian political um system the imperative for enhanced capacity building of female accountants as a fiscal governance strategy I say it's a file strategy because um let opportunity meet you already prepared.
Yeah, there's practically no time for anyone but you can create time for what is important to you.
I've over the years tried to do that for myself and I saw the result and I'm seeing it. I have listened to everyone.
And I want us to please give me a little attention, undivided attention so that we can discuss alongside a nation that silence half of its mind cannot think its way forward. That's the practical situation of Nigeria. We have about 49% of the Nigerian's population as female, a near equal demographic base.
But in the political arena, we have less than 6% less than 6%.
We have less than 6% female representation in elected offices at both federal and state levels.
Distinguished guests, extreme colleagues, fellow professionals, I'm not merely speaking as an accountant general, but as a witness to the paradox that has defined Nigerian governance for too long. A nation extraordinarily rich in professional female talent yet structurally engineer to s suppress that talent the moment it dares to become political.
What I present today is not a lament. It is a case technically grounded, evidence-driven, and politically urgent that gender exclusion in Nigeria's political system is not simply unjust.
At its core, it is fiscally catastrophic.
There's an event going on now at the International Conference Centering the Global African Women Sustainability Project.
We see women all over Africa, the African Union are here and impact her.
Women are impacting on the solar system creation on waste to wealth and yet very few are recognized even now.
The danger the gender ledger as I said earlier every accountant understands the ledger. Every discrepancy signals breakdown and chronic imbalance left unressed does not stabilize. It compounds the problem.
It compounds the decision that is supposed to be made that is supposed to be clear. Apply this particular professional lens to Nigeria's political architecture. And what eages is a ledger in chronic structural and widening deficits.
Like I mentioned to us earlier, we are we the female we are about 49% of Nigerian's population but in the elected um representation we have less than 6% of the female f in elected position across Nigeria.
The gender governance gap is costing Nigeria it most underutilized professional resource.
These figures are not statistics to recide and move past. They are fiscal distress signals. When governance system exclude qualified professionals on the basis of gender, the consequences are material and measurable across every stage of the budget cycle. Budget priorities are encoded with limited perspectives.
Social infrastructure s such as healthcare, nutrition, education is systematically underfunded.
Oversight mechanisms at trophy and fiscal linkages expand into the institutional vacuum created by weakened accountability um structures.
I want to encou encourage all of us the female accountants professionals those intending to be accountants to please encourage yourself. You may not have a position today but when you are prepared it will come beckoning on you. I had disappointments.
Not that I lobbyed for it, but I didn't know the world was watching at what I was doing. And recommendations were made from people I don't even know.
And here I am today. In public finance management terms, gender exclusion is not a diversity failure. It is a fiscal distortion that degrades every stage of our life, every stage of the budget cycle, every stage of the economy of Nigeria. It affects from formulation through execution to audit and compounds with each successful successful year of inaction.
We are feeling it. Families are feeling it. The scripture says that the woman is the helpmate. But you know that practically women are running things in the home. It is a woman. The best is expected of you in the office. You need to manage your temperament. You need to manage your relationship with people.
You need to manage your professional ethics alongside the pressure. I thank God that Federinan, Miss Professor Federinan had taken us through this earlier in the day. How do we balance this with so much pressure from our community, from the society, from your workplace, from those that feel entitled that whatever you are today is through their effort to you. The woman has so much and I want to tell you that women have to support themselves. Earlier on in life, people had said that it's not possible for women to work with women.
But over the years research has shown that we can work among herself. We can push the economy of cr of Nigeria and we are pushing the various economy of our families. We can do it. I can the icon in us can help us that we can we can do it through Christ that strengthens us.
Don't get discouraged that oh you are not recognized. Just keep being consistent and then a time will come that the people around you will say, "Oh, we recommend Unku to represent us in the house of rep. We recommend a kite to represent us as the chairman of the council. We recommend this person as a counselor, as a supervisory counselor, as a commissioner, as a special advisor at any level. You can do it. Don't be discouraged that oh it used to be the men's world but I want to tell you that inclusion we are not stopping at anything we are not stopping at whatever distracts there's no distraction in it in fact every distraction is a step further I'm encouraging everyone today I'm encouraging myself as well that we have not started yet let's encourage oursel the value proposition what female accountants bring to governance.
I want to be precise here. I am not making that.
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>> Please. Where did you get >> Yes, ma'am. Where did you get my information last?
I was encouraging everyone that we shouldn't be distracted. Every distraction, anything that seems like a distraction should be a stepping stone to greater heights, to greater collaboration, to greater understanding of what the political environment ecosystem is.
Anyone that has been comfortable exercising authority over time will not just handing over to you like that. Not to deter at all. Don't be distracted.
You are a strong woman. You are a strong being created in the image of God. As I was saying that Nigerian political economy suffers well doumented pathologies like institutionalized budget padding, procurement irregularities, training hundreds of billion annually.
This aspect of ours is not just restricted to our country. There's no country in the world that corruption is not founded.
science, science and research has shown that women are more conscious and more intentional of being the right thing because the woman will think of what will happen to her and the embarrassment that it will cause her.
The female accountants specifically brings three demonstrated governance advantages that international evidence consistently validates.
We bring greater risk averion in fiscal decision making. Research across regulatory environments demonstrates higher sensitivity to downside risks and preference for fiscal sustainability over short-term political visibility.
I guess we understand this that the woman it has shown that the woman takes greater risks aversion in fiscal decision making. We consider both sides of the coin before we take a decision.
Experimentally it has shown that the conviction of women over the years is lower than the rate that men have been convicted for corruption and others. We are careful most times and they will tell you that woman is quite difficult.
She's too meticulous. She wants everything very perfect. Yes, that is how God made us to be. And that's why after creation, God rested because he knew that his problem has been solved by creating that woman to handle those affairs.
It has been internationally proven that higher ethical compliance is noticed among women. The World Bank has confirmed that Transparency International, if you check their website, you'll see it. And African governance studies consistently find lower rates of procedural non-compliance and corruption involvement among women in fiscal authority.
This should make you brand yourself with a clean slate that you can stand any contest with any man anywhere. The intelligence that God has given to a woman cannot be underrated.
God has blessed us with great intuitive power that you can see an insight of a situation and diagnose before a man.
That's the gift that God gave to us and we are not relinquishing it to any um being.
It is also scientifically proven that long-term investment orientation is mostly managed by women.
Globally, long-term investment orientation is properly managed by women. Prioritizing human capital expenditure in healthcare, education and nutrition and generating the highest social return on public investment.
I say this because the world is watching and the Bible says that we are encamped around by great witnesses. People are waiting to see where you're going to make a mistake. And this woman is always prepared for it. That's the thing that God created us for. When female accountants enter governance, they bring the discipline of our accounting practice into the legislature into policy making into the decisions that will affect both the present and the future of any society of any environment. I say any environment because sometimes you are sent as an ambassador outside the country and you going to meet with people that you've never known. You need to learn a language. You need to learn their culture. You need to learn a lot. And it takes the grace of a woman to pay through those hurdles.
Um the political intelligence gap why competence alone is not sufficient.
Despite all that I've read, despite these clear evidence-based values, female accountants remain almost entirely absent from Nigeria's political leadership.
I want to encourage all of us in a various corner that we should encourage one another to be seen.
Anyone that you know has a leadership quality whose integrity you can defend, let's come out for leadership role.
Practically in Nigeria now people are vying for house of reps, senators and governorship and other opportunities.
Please don't lag behind.
We will support you. We'll support those that come out for political leadership.
It's a commitment by us. The instinctive response is to attribute this to discrimination.
This is real. But we must confront it.
There are more complete explanation for this. It is structural.
Let me precisely. It is not a prerequisite that you say okay because last time you were not allowed this time you not try it. Keep trying.
and you get it. There is a widening critical and systematically unadressed gap between professional competence and political effectiveness.
Technical expertise, however deep, does not automatically translate into political power.
That you are the best in accounting, you are the best in financial management doesn't make you a political power until you are voted in. until they cast a vote on you and I want to say that from the community that you come from I think people can vote for you less and less our social asset and social relationship and get things done.
The Nigerian political environment demands not only the ability to analyze systems but the capa capacity to change them to build coalitions to command constituencies navigate patronage networks and exercise influence within structures not designed with professional merit in mind. I named this the political intelligence gap and it is the principal structural obstacle between female accountants extraordinary competence and their legitimate place in governance. Get your seat. Nobody will hand over the seat to you. Present yourself and the seat will be vacant for you to sit on. The anatomy of the barrier.
The barriers are interlocking and mutually reinforcing the prohibitive financial cost of political pro participation for a state of assembly campaign frequently requires tens of millions of naira. You can get this through your social networks. When you come for IC meeting, don't just attend the meeting and walk away. We have people that are entrepreneurs. We have people that are businessmen. Interact with them. Build a relationship and these people can sponsor your election tomorrow.
Systematically exclude professionals whose pathway to public service runs through merit rather than inherited political capital.
We have a strange godfather.
We can do that. If you take the population of of um accountants in the country and people that we have impacted on from a various enterprise h enterprises from as various organizations. You build it together. You have a coalition that can speak for you. People that can vote for you. People that can comment on your social network. Some of us operate without even a social handle and it's not the best. You don't want to be seen because accounting profession says don't place a big billboard on your practice.
But your practice you're interfacing with humans every day. That humanitarian impact can propel you to a height that you least expect. And so encourage us.
Don't restrict yourself to just professional practice. Expand your horizon to relating even in church.
Speak out. Don't just see a thing and keep quiet. Say something when you see something.
If you don't say a word, nobody will look at your direction. No matter how much that you know, no matter how well you are connected, if you don't say a thing, no one will hear you. Please, let's learn to say a thing.
I will look at that it is not a failure on the female accountant. It is a failure of our ecosystem professional, institutional and political. We need to prepare, support and sponsor ourselves.
As it is a failure, we must both have the responsibility and capacity to correct these errors. The world is looking at us. The men have tried and people are complaining. Let the women arise.
Let us take up this mantle and let us tell people that we can do it. Where the men fell, we can do better. If your sister didn't do well yesterday, doesn't mean that you cannot do better than she did.
The strategic framework on closing this gap has to be a deliberate attempt. It has to be a deliberate investment. We have to invest our time. We have to invest our talent. We have to invest our god-given potentials. I propose a three-pillar capacity building framework. Each pillar addressing a distinct dimension of the political intelligence gap. Pillar one is microphysical and political architecture fluency.
Female accountants we must evolve from financial analysis within governance into fiscal polit policy architects who shape the priorities that budget reflects.
This demands literacy in how monetary policy transmission mechanism interacts with fiscal consolidation strategies and manifest in state level revenue allocation.
And we need to have the mastery of gender responsive budgeting.
The systematic method methodology that disagregates fiscal impact by gender and is increasingly mandated by international development partners and the capacity to trace a budget line item to a measurable human development outcome. In politics, numbers must do more than balance.
They must build.
Numbers must build. Everybody investors look at numbers and we are very good at numbers. We can use the few numbers and geometrically impact on our demographic exposures and get the results. Don't lag behind again.
Pillar two, political finance and regulatory mastery. The Electoral Act 2022 establishes campaign expenditure stealings. ING disclosure requirements mandate transparency in campaign financing.
Party structures create governance frameworks routinely circumvented female accountants. We possess a profound advantage here.
But if we deliberately equipped to deploy our ice trade in this content, a candidate who runs a fully transparent fully compliant campaign does not merely follow rules. She establishes a governance standard. Her campaign itself becomes a demonstration of the fiscal culture she brings to office.
And pillar three on this closing this gap closing the gap on deliberate investment of the female fold in strategic leadership and coalition architecture strategic leadership and and coalition architecture. Politics is ultimately not about knowledge. It is about converting knowledge into power.
Converting what you know into getting people to understand what you know and see the vision and see the light ahead where others have not seen. You can interpret figures. You can interpret the indices that impact on economy and you can use it to advise your electorate. It is converting this into this power into policy. Female accountants we have to be trained and retrained in interestbased negotiation at the level of legislative chambers and party structures in communicating fiscal expertise in the language of constituents who judge their representative by the life by the way they live the reality of service delivery and in building coalitions across ethnic religion.
regional and political device. This is where competence becomes impact.
Whatever you know how to do it, you know the best way to do it and no one can take it that knowledge from you.
Whatever you know, you know. Whatever you don't know, you can learn and improve on it and do better. I encourage every one of us. It's not a rhetoric um discourse without institutional action. It is an intentional thing that forms and can reduce a fiscal waste into a fiscal wealth. Let's collaborate together. Let's come together and share the knowledge that we have and share the statistics that we have and what will follow next are concrete actor specific mandate with the force of professional obligation and national urgency have stated here that I can anan and other affiliated professional bodies both accounting engineering, economics, I mean every professional professionally inclined woman must establish we have to establish structured political mentorship programs, formal sponsorship relationships, not networking events where senior fellows commit time capital and polit political networks to supporting female members entry into governance and integrate leadership and political finance into mandatory continuous programs framework.
I want to say this that over the years we've had discouragement from some of our colleagues. Sometimes you meet some of our colleagues that will tell you ah madame I will not be able to help you there. you know h this political something I cannot say that person knows that you have a capacity more than him don't sit and wait for his acceptance move and the force and the grace of God be behind you we get you through all barriers we've been celebrating international women for years we did breaking barriers inclusiveness and all of that and this year we thought about gift giving and the act of promotion. When you don't give yourself to a thing, you won't be rece you won't have that reception.
Let's give our heart, let's give our time, let's give our talent, a little of it to political activities and you will be recognized.
The National Assembly must translate the 35% affirmative action commitment in the national gender policy into binding electoral law with enforcable consequences. We cannot get this done when we are behind. We can get this done when we are involved, actively involved.
I commend the women that went for um this city boy convention in Benin last week. We saw the women. We came out.
Women went out there. Women supporting women. If you if they did not go out, they wouldn't have known that women can come out in such massive numbers.
Let's get ourselves involved because when we are there in the National Assembly, we will be able to coordinate and get a binding electoral law and get it enforcable with consequences.
We need to get party deregul uh deregistration provisions for systematic non-compliance.
any party that wouldn't comply to the 35% inclusiveness when we are there we'll be able to get this um properly embodied and embedded in our constitution. A dedicated political finance institute must be established at the intersection of accounting and governance providing structured programs in political leadership.
Legislative procedure, fiscal policy advocacy and constituency engagement.
The institutional pipeline that closes the political intelligence gap at a scale.
We cannot be reduced to nothing less when we are actively involved. State governors and the federal executive will have to enforce gender parity in appointments. I give it to my governor Senator Prince Basier Deutu. In his appointment, he has over 40% female appointees.
Check out the number of commissioners.
Check out the number of um permanent secretaries that are in appointments.
I wouldn't have been here if Senator Prince B2 did not bring me to the four.
I encourage state governors to do the same and the federal executive to accommodate more women in appointment to fiscal governance position. It will not just be a symbolic quarter filling but a deliberate deployment of the professional capacity these roles demand and the nation urgently needs us.
A Nigeria in which female accountants govern is a Nigeria in which the books are balanced, the resources are protected, the people are served and the future is secured not aspiration but a documented governance dividends of inclusive fiscal leadership.
Auditing the future, a call to transformational action.
As accountants, we have been trained and we trained and we continue to get trained. We need to read, we need to go online, read everything that comes across you. Read systems with discipline clarity to identify imbalances.
trace root causes and recommend corrections that restore the integrity of the whole.
That is what we stand for. I have applied that discipline to Nigerian's governance system. The imbalance is structural and chronic. The root cause is a systematic exclusion of a professional cohort whose expertise is directly responsive to the system's most critical failures.
The correction is available, evidence supported and actionable.
What remains is a wheel.
Swan, we have the wheel. Let's move out from our hideout. Let's come out. Let's bring out the will, the strength that the rel the resilence that God has given us and make it institutional and go political and get it personal.
The governance literature is unambiguous.
Systems that integrate women into fiscal leadership as girl are more transparent, more accountable, more efficient and more resilient under stress.
They build institutions that outlast the individuals who inhabit them because these institutions are designed around rules and standard rather than relationships and discretion. Nigeria's governance architecture has too long been defined by corrosive substitution of political loyalty for professional competence. Every year this persists the fiscal cost compounds in wasted resources in development deferred in credibility forfeited before our people and the world. I speak to female accountants across Nigeria directly and globally for expertise in political. The skills you deploy every day in managing your home, in managing your community, managing your family, in managing p public resources, enforcing compliance, ensuring transparency, driving accountability are precisely the skills Nigerian's governance architecture most desperately need. We need to present this to our people. We need to present that we can do it. Do not wait for an invitation.
The speech is the invitation. This moment is the mandate. Build political intelligence around yourself.
Be conscious about what is happening.
Your constituency. Step forward. Present yourself with the rigor of the profession and the conviction of those who know exactly what the cause of continued absence will be.
Please, let's balance the ledger, strengthen the system, build a better Nigeria.
From me, from you, from all of us, let's hold our hands together as female professionals in whatever area, wherever you find yourself. Build the network.
Don't just introduce yourself and run away.
Be resilient enough to withstand whatever I said. Every distraction is a step to greatness. Every distraction will propel you to a greater recognition.
Present yourself. It is a mandate. It's a God-given mandate. Let's do it. Nobody will give us on a platter of gold.
Nobody will present it to you. Present what you have, your ability. Be convinced that you can do it for the icon in us. Women of integrity, we can do it. The women and the men, the men, the young, the youth will support you when you present yourself where you don't present yourself for leadership.
You will just be wasting and languishing and lamenting. Whereas you should be heard, you should be seen. I encourage everyone listening to me. You have a sister somewhere that is doing well, encourage her. You have a sister, a mother somewhere, encourage. You have an aunt, a niece, encourage everyone. Let's come up together. Yeah, I'm not disputing the fact that men have been encouraging. Some men, a handful encourage the women. But I want the men to come on out and encourage us and pull us, give us a helping hand. And we are here to turn the world around positively. Thank you so very much for the opportunity given me to share this with us. This gap can be closed. A step forward will close the gap. A step backward will widen the gap. So let's move forward together and close this gap of inequality of gender exclusion and get include inclusively included. Thank you so very much.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. More for Dr. Mrs. Gloron FCA. This is a well thought out and well delivered paper.
I've looked at the question and answer session. Most of the things there I just commendation. So madam, you have done very well. You have done very well. But before we move on to the last paper, let me just do a recap on some of the things you have told us. You started by giving us some very worrisome statistics.
49% yes. The 49% of Nigerian's population is female. They are female. But as I date less than 6% are in elected position at all levels. So we have under utilization about 43% available resource for women that are not currently being utilized.
So we advising women to come out for political leaders.
>> Yeah.
role then in the area of so there's this saying that your network will determine your net worth so women adise to build their network so that they have a very good network they are giving advice to polit professional institute like I can that we should have a structured political mentorship program so I can and should have structured political mentorship program.
>> He also >> so he also advised that there should be implementation of the 35% affirmation for female gender then there should be gender equality in female appointments and you give example of your states where you have this being operated. So women are advised to be seen and be heard so that people will take them very seriously. So I think ladies and gentlemen let us give more thumb up for Dr. Mrs. Glory Tony FCA for a beautiful and wellought delivery. We thank you very much ma'am for coming around. So God bless you ma'am.
>> Our time is fast friends. Yes. We want to move on to the last paper for today.
H for me is Dr. Greg Arand. Okay, he's there. My good friend is there. So the sing and gentlemen we are moving on to the last paper for today. Our time is far spent. So the last paper for today is titled beyond the ledger how accountants can redefine public leadership.
So this paper will be taken by my brother and my friend a fellow of our institute chairman of anra state internal revenue service.
So Dr. Greg Uguku ao FCA FCTI SM PG.
Greg has a degree in industrial mathematics from University of Benin Bin City, a master's degree in systems engineering from University of Lagos. He also has a diploma in law from Los State University and a doctorate degree in business and technology management specializing in computer and information security from the North Central University Arizona in USA.
He has a number of other professional certifications in accounting, auditing and information technology. This include fellow of our great institute institute of chapter accountant of Nigeria.
CISA a certified information systems auditor, certified in risk and information system control, certified ethical hacker, certified in computer hacking and forensic investigation, certified security analyst ISO 27001, early certification, fellow of the charter institute of transition of Nigeria, certified IT practitioner of the computer council of Nigeria. Over the last 25 years, Dr. Elo has been practicing as an international consultant in financial services, corporate planning, computers and network security systems audit, forensic investigation, public finance management and audit is an if and I fis experts Dr. consulted for the institute of accounting of Nigeria, financial institution training center and a few multilateral institution including the World Bank, the European Union USAD and a British department for international development DFID on information technology governance public finance management and if SIFMIS is the founder and president CEO of ST signal House Consulting Limited as well as forensic and digital support system a forensic audits and investigation firm in Nigeria.
He's also the founder of a number of offshore companies including Triple G for a tourist company operating in Kgali Rwanda and Baju Daka the Gambia respectively.
Dr. O was a technical advisor to the public account committee of both the nights and the 10th house of representatives national assembly.
He was also a member of the transition committee of the Mr. Governor of Anra state professor Charles Chukum Soludo and now the meeting past chairman of the anra internal revenue service ara state. He currently lectures at the business school of in the Azo University as an lecturer. He was a recipient of the prestigious merit award of history of Canada of Nigeria under the members category conferred on him on May 6, 2023.
Recently he received an award of excellence in IG IGR practice by Nambia University and received an award of the most performing internal revenue service chairman in the southeast conferred on him by the officials Nigeria magazine.
Dr. Grego is happily married with children and plays tennis at Leor Times.
He was also recently honored with the ambassador of Nigeria students parliament. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, let me hand over the scene to Dr. Greg Zelo FCA FCTI SM PhD to take the topic beyond the ledger how accountants can redefine public leadership. So you are welcome on stir.
Thank you very much my brother and friend um uh Balogu.
It's been um it's been a long time and uh I want to say it's good to be back after close to 3 years of um out of circulation and also to welcome our I hope everybody can hear me. Am I am I being heard?
>> You're loud and clear sir. You're loud and clear.
>> Very good. Very good. So uh my dear professional colleagues who are young not only young at heart but young physically too to push from where we are about to give way.
So um I want to also give kudos to the last presenter before me that who has um sently canvased for all inclusion of women especially women accountants.
And um before I forget, I must recommend you to one of an organs that was founded by one of our own young accountants.
And uh being a woman too and a lady is also a young accountant. She found a foundation called OAF and OAF is catering for the interest of women not just particularly women accountants but women all over the world.
OF for for full meaning is uh OEL women empowerment foundation and some financial institutions has found kind hearts with this foundation.
So what I'm also asking you to do is to Google it and you'll find what they do and also see that leadership is purely beyond the ledger.
She is a woman accountant, ched accountant, ch taxation practitioner and now found herself in public service and she always brags and um confesses to me that within two years of knowing me that she has paid off in leadership more than 10 years ahead of what she was scanning for. So that's just by the way of an way of information for you. So with that I want to thank all the previous presenters and um and of course um ask you to just listen. My own will be more of sharing experiences that I've had uh two and a half years of being in public service from private sector.
And um um uh you see my slides?
Are you seeing my slides?
>> Very visible. We can see it.
>> Okay, >> it's visible, sir.
>> Okay, very good. So um just want to put this phone on um you know how these phones ring on side on um unreachable mode.
Okay, good. Now if you watch I says um I try to recount tweet this title accountants as catalyst for redefining public leadership.
Accountants as catalyst for redefining public leadership and uh um I try to have an agenda before we begin then from record keeping to strategic leadership that's where we are ending.
uh driving transparency and public trust. That's the main myth of the day.
Combating corruption, ethical foundations of leadership. then enabling datadriven leadership and um of course I'm always intoxicated by the fact that um I deal with numbers on a daily basis also given the background that um I studied numbers by way of mathematics and numerology has has done a lot of work in my life so having m having um accounting as embellishing factor is also a spike on it. So, and then we're also going to look at um we're also going to look at uh uh the future of um the young accountants. How do you how do you crystallize your future? We also will be looking at um uh seeing what conclusions and take away before we call it a day.
Okay. Happy to note that this is the last paper so nobody will be putting pressure except that those of you who are good enough to you also at your homes offices and all of that so no much pressure on this. Now before we begin something occurred to me this icon logo I don't know how many of you who have taken time to look at it and see what it speaks and it speaks accuracy and integrity accuracy and integrity.
And this clearly speaks to leadership.
If you haven't noted that, take note that these are the two hammers you must use when you find yourself in public space.
Accuracy and integrity. If you miss that then from day one you have missed it.
Now, um I want us to look at some I have some thoughts on leadership and then before we can get into the meats some people at the background talking I don't know um if you can handle that. So some thoughts on leadership.
Now from John Maxwell he says that leaders become great not because of their power but because of their ability to empower others.
You cannot you cannot say you are a leader except empowered empowered others. And then here I am sitting down telling you here behind the screen that I have a reference immediately.
>> Well done.
I have a reference from already who's continued to confess that two years down the line.
>> She has become a multiple leader leader of women and these women are likely to be leaders as well and she's taken them beyond bounds beyond boundaries. Imagine a foundation that is just barely one year old is attracting attention from banks, international donors and all of that.
That is the essence of making empowering others to become leaders.
Okay. And um that is not farfetched. If you go to the website then the most powerful leadership tool you have in your own is your own personal example.
I've given you one already down the line. That is the most powerful tool you can boast of about leadership just by by John Wooden. Then next one is say says that a leader is one who knows the way goes the way and shows the way. John C.
Maxwell take it home. If you don't know the where others will fail with you because you're not leading. The next one says that the task of leader of a of of the leader is to get people from where they are not to from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kessinger.
So you have a group of people sitting somewhere but you got to take them from where they are to where they have not been.
Again I will have examples to give you in this instance when we proceed.
Now leadership is relationship that creates change but it's a positive change not a negative one.
If your leadership has not created a positive change, forget it.
Again, I get back to my um my previous assignment cutsy and that the very benevalence of Mr. Governor Al CFR having been from the director to to chairman for the first ten.
The change I have created having been a positive one tells me that I led well and what was that change when I bought when I took the sados the fortunes of revenue of my state was below the head I made it at 2 billion by the time I I I was leaving it was now 5 billion a month And of course the last two months in the year was an average of 6 billion.
And I look back to what I did. I found that those who were with me have even become leaders before my exit. cuz when I had um a last minute a last day discussion with all my unit leaders and all of that, it was a kind of memory lane and some people were say are you truly living this this and that and some confessed that their position in life today has also changed.
Then from Peter Dera a well-known management thought leader you know says that effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked.
Leaders is defined by results and not attributes.
Again, I will um if you want to verify this, if you want to verify this from experiences and examples, I would like you to go and Google or not Google, go to chat GPT if you have it.
If you don't have it, download it. Chat GPT and ask chat GPT who is Dr. Greg Ezo and then take it to the meta analysis of it will give of it will give to you and then you can confirm whether leaders are actually defined by plenty talks or by results they attain.
Next, true leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders that I've given to you. Because even today, any day I land at Anra.
I got to see all of them.
Chairman, our leader, chairman, our leader, chairman, our leader. Which police are you? I hope you are still maybe you have to get ready to go to we are going to I said oh wait now wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait I'm not yet a politician okay so you don't just create followers but you create leaders okay then the dimensions of leadership is is captured in what I call or what is called LMX theory which makes the dic relationship between leaders and followers. The focal point of the leadership process.
So the image on the right describes two sort of followers and leader.
They are leaders. Their followers we call the inroup and those you call the art group. The art group are not ready to become leaders because in your organizations not just public sector their mind is fixated on that contract of 8 to5 they quit and go and then of course those who potent who are potential leaders the inroup leaders are those who look up to their leader to also become leaders.
I will do more expensation on this um in a book I'm about to launch later in the year and um I will want all of you to have a copy of that when the time comes.
Now, but can you really characterize yourself as a leader and charismatic one for that matter?
And I want to give you some of these features that if you can characterize yourself then you know that you are moving from record keeping to strategic leadership.
The first one is do you possess strong communication and storytelling skill?
That is to say, can you be vivid in talking to people your your your team?
Can you be imaginative?
Can you use narratives to share your values and the future of your goals?
If you can do this then you are a potential charis charismatic leader because it means you can see the future and you can tell the story that supposed to be told 5 to 10 years ago today and that's what will tell you give some examples from what I have done and this is area that is coming next confidence and conviction do You inspire trust and confidence on your teams.
Can your team look up to you and smile and say look no other way to go than this direction of our leader.
In that way they also learn how to lead with you visionary.
You have to make yourself an adept.
Now there's a tool I normally use here.
I call it daydreaming and some of you will know it daydreaming. Daydreaming effect. You sit down and begin to envision call it topic but it might not be because let me tell you that your mind is always your workshop.
Your mind is the workshop of creativity.
And let me tell you also that there's nothing you create in your mind that cannot materialize on this planet.
But there are two provisions.
Two provisions.
One is that you possess the necessary skill, knowledge and qualification to bring it to mality.
Two, you are not a selfish person.
You are rather a generous person. You are charitable because they said in the Bible that God gives a cheerful giver.
God give back to a cheerful giver. So if you're not a cheerful giver, God will not make it work. If you like pray 1 million times a day, if you like dream 10 million times a day, it will not work.
So these two necessary qualifications are important for you to become an adept as a visionary leader.
So bear that in mind and I can tell you just like Jesus said in the Bible too said that look if you have faith you can say that mountain to be removed and plug into the ocean and it will happen.
Jesus is just telling you was just telling you that you have the power to accomplish those that that people think is unaccomplishable.
You have the power and the only way you can design that to happen is in your mind.
That's only where it can happen. Not on your textbooks or whatever. No, no, no, no. It's in your mind. Once you design it, daydream it that is happening. Then you see that the omnipotic, omnipotent, omnipresent God will bring you to that opportunity that will make it happen. Quote me.
Then empathy and emotional connection.
My friends, you may be a good leader.
You may be charismatic in your leadership style, but you must embellish it with emotional intelligence.
You must know when those people you are leading are in difficulty.
You must know when they have a kind of peny that you need to resolve. You must know sense around them. When they are sick, he must know when they have family issues that that is going to impact on their productivity and then you are that that makes you a leader of all times.
Risk taking again I will emphasize you cannot make an accomplishment without taking the risk.
Think outside the box or even under the box.
So you're going to be someone who people say ah this is a no a noble area. He said no I must go eat. I must go eat.
And there people think you are joking and you are there. You are there. So you've taken all the risks and that is how to know who a leader is.
So if you are not ready to take any risk of such then of course you are just in your fight.
Now driving transparency and public trust improvement science is only where to plug this local the pole. Again please note it down.
Go and ask GPT or even orary Google what is improvement science or just say improvement science in revenue generation in Nigeria.
then you see what he would tell you there was another example I want to give you about what I have done as an experience and um with that you can drive transparency and public trust technology has it all and um it can also beat my chest that in the intervening period I worked um when I got in there the transport sector being one of the inform form a violent violent environment that people say don't dare they kill people this and that I say what what's what kind of killing is that they can can they kill technology and I designed a technology that even though it took us some fights meeting with meeting with meeting with bosses meeting with the super drivers to buy their to get their buy in in on you know bing on this technology today on the streets of anra states if you're walking on the street and you see a kk even if if it's parked somewhere just check for a QR code sticker on the screen take your phone and go and scan it and it will give you details of the owner of that ker and show you his balances on his IG contribution to the state because I tried to design an AI related system. when I had a lot of complaints of this and that and that I said no no no I need to have a system that if you have a a care or boss you come out in the morning you want to go out you put your key to start it it will ask you are you clear on your IGR bill and the answer is yes it's okay go ahead if he's not he said please clear your bill before you move on the street otherwise your vehicle been pounded and I got the system working and then Um it works on what a principle of pay as you work not pay as you are build but pay as you walk and then of course you no longer go to key at the bank or pos to make your payments we created wallets electronic wallets which must be funded so on the dot of time you are supposed to make your payments your account is automatically charged to the state IGR and 2 days before the the the due date it will send you an SMS please make your payment in the next two days or else you'll be you'll be you'll be impounded and that made life much easier as a leader so and um I'm getting another one again that I'm going to show you on this technology now ethical foundations of leadership and says that let the tone at the top speak.
If the tone at the top is not speaking, forget it. And I give another example here.
If you go to Anra today and mention the name or they will tell you more stories because let one clear case somebody a friend of mine was driving home early late evening I'm passing one local government and these boys accosted him and said he has he has he has flouted one traffic ruler you know they can raise all kind alibis and then he say how much did they say 5k he paid so he now sounded to them like ah this guy has money so they now raise additional issues with him now they should pay 25k to open whatever gate and then he remembered he remember so he called somebody he didn't have my number he called somebody to give him my number the person gave me a number he called me. I said, "Uh, brush, see what happened. What happened?" I said, "Where is the place?"
He told me. I said, "Okay, can you give the person your phone?" He said, "No, the person has gone inside the secretariat." I said, "Okay, can you go into the secretariat?" He said, "But no, just tell me I don't care paying. I don't know." I said, "You must care for whatever you paying for." No. Anything you told to pay for, you must care for it. Don't just say, "I don't care." If they say you pay 1 million I just pay the one because you have the money. No, you must care. He must be concerned. So I got very furious with him even so as I as I was about driving into somebody now came out of the office. I said please go go go. He said what he said no no don't want just go go go go go said go go go no problem.
So he now call me back. He say apparently they heard him asking someone to give give him my number and they say ah if this man get that problem so allow allow him to go and the person they asking to bring to health care was now allowed to go and a number of issues like that just merely hearing this that is on on this matter they will just vanish.
So um that is the tone at the top because even if he were my own leaders on the field they get instant dismissal and that's a signal that such misbehavior is not tolerated at the top and therefore it can be tolerated below.
Okay. So the story at the top speaks for itself.
Then enabling datadriven leadership and here I say that while accountants give meaning to data yes the job of an accountant is totally to assemble pick up data whatever it is and that's the essence of forensic accounting if you remember those of you who attended that course program of icon 2 which simply says that accounting is um using data to resolve allegations of fraud or infraction from beginning to the end.
using data to resolve allegations of fraud or in infractions from beginning to end.
And once the accountant have done this data now becomes meaningful to the leader. It now provides the leader direction and focus.
So while you are in offices, why you aspiring to become a leader, while you are dealing with issues of all kinds and there's no data, you can have a direction, you can have a focus. So you have to bear this in mind and I made use of it quite extensively, quite extensively.
Now um to conclude on this pathway um are you inspired by new horizons? Yes, you must be inspired.
And I'll give you another the last example of um taking to that path that everybody thinks is hard to go.
While I was on a saddle, an amra state had what you call an amra property and land use charge applock. 2011 was when PTO, the then governor enacted this law and the law enabled the state to harvest the revenues from property tax and word bank has it that you have over 500,000 three-story buildings at all time.
You can imagine where you say pay me 2020,000 or $1500,000.
But guess what? Between 2011 and 2025, this law could not be implemented because of the activities of the non-state actors.
They will take you to court. The local government will come in. This will come in. this will come in.
I laughed.
I studied the law.
I studied it. Had a firm grip on that law and I found a formula that was crafted into the law to enable it to work. But all the previous leaders could not interpret it.
So having done so I designed the applo harvest process harvesting process presented it before the council and I approved it and I remember I was president one one council member told me he said look um chairman I was a member of the committee that was trying to implement this law and it didn't work what are you going to do differently I said well number one I think it's because of your inability to interpret that law properly and number two you haven't done the needful but sit and watch and I deployed no other technology than Google maps Google maps I used it to map all the properties states and I got about 1.4 million properties.
Then shifted to urban the three main urban centers and got 553,000 which ties with World Bank projections.
And then we began to cluster cluster them in different zones and employed consultants and all of that.
And then as a leader you must envision your obstacles and resolve them.
I knew that local governments will be obstacles.
I brought them to a stakeholder meeting.
I made them to sign an MOU that when I go into this harvest, you should not come because after the harvest, you have a percentage of share to each other government according to the number of buildings found in your place.
And we signed, we agreed both sign, all of them signed it.
And then we went to the streets.
And guess what?
One local government uh one landlord got another local government to go to court. So they sent me a protection notice through their lawyer and I invited their lawyer to my office.
After going through, I now put pulled the file where I had that MOU and gave the lawyers to read.
When they finished reading it, they packed their bags and files and went away because the case died uh on arrival.
And I can tell you also that a day before I left office, Google in the US gave an amra state an award for using Google map to map an amra state properties. Out of 4,000 entries, we came number one.
The leader behind that is Dr. Greg Zillow.
So this is because I was inspired to explore new horizont.
So as we speak now the harvest from applo is getting to 1 billion in 18 in about 8 months of implementation after 13 or 14 years of enacting that law is now working.
I just pray that those are handed over will take it. And also let me tell you that even this this this system has been adopted by Nasawa state.
Nas state is adopted has adopted it is working there. They already have using applo but no longer applo but well you can call it netlock or whatever it is.
And uh last year when I made a presentation on how I captured the information sector, the body of the body of um um um chairman joint tax board then revenue board applauded and one of the high ranking members of the board said that is not a ranking member of the board but he's number one on informal sector.
and it was recorded.
So the next one I ask you, do you have the guts and tools to push beyond doubts?
When people doubt you or when you doubt yourself, must the courage and the gut to go beyond that.
The tools you must have, like I said before, no matter the day dreaming, no matter the prayer, no matter no matter the fasting, no this is not the days of manner from above. You must have the requisite qualifications and skills.
And I put it to you as they say in law courts.
You have ACA now. Fantastic.
But see that as the springboard.
So I can tell you the truth.
I have a BSC in mathematics, industrial mathematics.
I have a diploma in law.
But when I got icon, it became the platform for so many to follow.
what you have seen read in my profile.
He took me to CISA.
They cleared CISA. CISA then opened further doors in the area of it. Then I went the whole hog and another one is coming. And here I must tell you don't grow old.
So I don't see myself as growing old.
I'm still exploring the universe until navs and brain stops working.
No, there's no end to trying the new horizons.
But in a couple of years, you will hear back from me again.
Do you say no when the odds are even against you?
I must tell you I was bombarded left, right and center.
I was one man who had no friends but enemies all over the place.
And of course I said no against all odds.
I did and I succeeded.
moment will come say this man said does he have a plan in his head before we before we are getting here he's already there we say let's go there before getting there he's already there I don't know I don't know let's leave me alone then do you have the right balance of emotional intelligence to lead I've emphasized this before you must check yourself double check and see whether you have it you don't have cultivate I don't used to have this emotion because because of my aggression in pursuits but now I have developed it so I told you when you are creating leaders they may also be leading you in some aspects I told you how this lady that's um that um proud herself that over 10 years but the moment she met me and And I that the platform I gave was were leading and she has accomplished accomplished what she couldn't have done in in the last 10 years or even 10 years to come.
And that also reminds me the same our young accountant is going to launch a book.
the book he call she called it the weight work and I'm happy to be a review of the book and then also the commentaries and some of you who are accountants will make a good reading for you book is I think the launch launch launch opens up um May one and then the full launch will be on 30th of May somewhere at Colossus in Ka young accountant like you who saw no barriers in the horizon zone, who had the guts and tools to push beyond that and who said no when the odds are against her.
Can't you say why not me? Why not you?
And then finally, do you look beyond the limitations of all kinds to do the right thing?
My friends and colleagues, um, one of my bosses used to say that when he wakes up in the morning, he sees as if the entire universe is working against him and he must fight back.
I took it from him in this asking the right questions.
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is to communicate to the owner of this universe and ask for guidance and support, spiritual support and I see no other limitations before me and I move on.
So in moving from record keeping to strategic leadership and empowering yourself and others.
Answer these questions in affirmative and then work towards achieving what you propose to achieve.
And you can see that people will see you as a magician. Yes.
It take a long a long time though to come because I'm I'm happy that you are young accountants.
Even if you are an old accountant, it doesn't matter where when you start.
Like I told you now, the the the word old doesn't apply in my dictionary.
And like I said, two promise I'm going to make to you a young accountant to also inspire you.
The end of this year, I'm going to launch like about three books in one day.
And of course, two years down the line, you'll hear another another side of Dr. Greg Zo, which will be an inspiration for you. But that is not an open secret yet.
So I want to admonish and encourage you to take this in seriously and then see that leadership is not a science but an art and more so in public service using the hammers the two hammers of icon accuracy and integrity documents issued those circumstances before you as a leader.
The central point is the truth about it. The next point is data surrounding the issues or what data being analyzed by accountant and it gives you direction.
Don't go the other way.
Stay by the truth and live by the truth.
Be a virtuous person and always remain remember that there is a power behind everything you do in this universe.
And that's why Apostle Paul said nothing nothing stands in the way of a man whose heart is virtuous and sacred.
Thank you many thanks for your listening gentlemen. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Dr. So the lecture is highly thoughtprovoking and very very inspiring.
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, let me just do some recap of what Dr. Zel has told us.
He started by telling us that the M of the institute accuracy and integrity are the two armors that we need in the public space.
So equally told us that leaders become great not because of their power but because of the ability to empower others. According to John Maxwell in the same way John Maswell also says a leader must know the way he must he must go the way and must equally show the way.
So Dr. has told us that to be a good leader we need strong communication skills. We need to be very confident and must equally be a good uh risk taker. In conclusion, he said a leader must be inspired by new horizons.
A leader must have the gods and the tools to push beyond doubts.
A leader must say no when the oaths are against him or her. A leader must have the right emotional intelligence. A leader must look beyond limitations of all kinds to do the right thing. You think this gentlemen let us give more thumb up to my friend and brother Greg Iso for a beautiful delivery.
So I've checked the question and answer box.
I have not seen any question for Dr. Zo.
So we have given you a good pass that we have understood all has been saying to us in the last 45 minutes.
So ladies and gentlemen, let us check the chat box for the attendance link and let us make sure that we complete the attendance so that we can hand the two MCP credit units as members of the institute.
So with this said, we want to wrap up uh the program for today.
So I'll be wrapping up by giving a vote of thanks on behalf of the chairman of the young development committee our own governing council member Dr. Dickness FCA who was unavly absent at this webinar.
So ladies and gentlemen, we thank you all for coming around and wish everybody all the best. Let me call on technical leave us the icon and the national anthem to wrap up this webinar. Thank you all.
What times of treasure?
in tri standing stronger in harmony.
Build in a land together.
We are striving to attain all and values that we share through all ages.
He is on the mountain of Nigeria.
No, no, I can gracy with we your Nigeria wee our own dear native.
Oh tribe and tongue may differ in brotherhood we stand.
Nigerian home and proud to serve our sovereign mother.
>> Thank you all. Do have a nice day.
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