About Us
In executing the above, the Centre engages in numerous often inter-related activities including capacity building workshops, symposia, field research and conferences on numerous subjects and themes relating with leadership; networking and collaborating with national and international corporate bodies, research centres and institutions; residential fellowships and the publication of journals and cutting edge books on leadership, social change and development.
The Centre is poised to provide innovative solutions to the challenge of positive leadership in accordance with the core mandate and commitment of the Federal University of Lafia to academic excellence. Against the backdrop of the collapse of values and the consequent dearth of effective leaders in our society, the Centre is also sets out to instrumentalise positive leadership development through building capacity and nurturing requisite leadership skill-sets, anchored on sound innovative knowledge impartation, training and deliberate networking with disciplinary specialisations in the humanities in Federal University of Lafia and other allied research institutes in Nigeria and across the globe.
Activities
2. Establish the flagship peer review journal of the Centre, the African Journal of Leadership and Social Change, to be published at least twice a year
3. Develop and mount certificate courses on leadership ethics
4. Develop academic curricula for some academic programs
5. Publish academic texts on leadership occasionally
6. Provide consultancy services to state, the Federal Government, Non-governmental and Civil Society Organisations on leadership and related subjects/themes
7. Partner and collaborate with other research institutes to expand and deepen the activities of the Centre
8. Establish a website for Centre's online visibility and outreach
9. Participate in radio programs on leadership and related subjects as part of its enlightenment and advocacy action plan.
10. Robustly engage with government agencies such as the National Orientation Agency, the National Youth Service Corps, the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police, Civil Defence Corps and Road Safety and Drug Law Enforcement Agency, etc on leadership issues.
Aims & objectives
ii. Prioritise capacity building as a response to the leadership gap and challenge in contemporary Africa
iii. Elevate the image and reputation of FULAFIA as a centre of innovative learning through research, capacity building and community service.
iv. Deepen and expand the Internally Generated Revenue capacity of FULAFIA
v. Promote research synergies and collaborations between FULAFIA scholars and other scholars in the global community
vi. Improve the international visibility of the University
vii. Improve and deepen the leadership knowledge, experience and skill-sets of all categories of staff in FULAFIA
viii. Promote a healthy dialogue between leaders and followers thereby fostering institutional integration
ix. Provide contents on positive leadership values and best practices to stakeholders
x. Provide career support services to all categories of students in the University.
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Welcome Address
Permit me to specially hail and salute you as you navigate our page. This is the Federal University of Lafia Centre for Leadership Studies where we prioritise leadership and followership as critical components of societal advancement and personal growth and development.
At the Centre, we recognise everyone as a leader, if not now then in the near future; bearing in mind the fact that, leadership is a dynamic and multi-layered phenomenon. In addition, our notion of leadership resonates with followership since the latter foregrounds the former in the change process.
Arising from this, the Centre commits to producing the next generation of leaders who are not only effective and well motivated, but adequately equipped with the requisite capacity to deliver on our development aspirations as a people and a nation in an ever-changing and complex world.
While acknowledging you as an important agent of change in this endeavour, we implore you to make the most of the opportunities the Centre would offer you to make that all-important and critical difference; and please, do remember to create and leave behind useful memories for posterity.