T he Nigerian Science Leadership Program (NSLP) is reinventing the concept of leadership through its philosophies and ideologies which harp on ‘doing research in systematic ways.’ NSLP exists to establish the nexus between science and leadership, and it has so far done massive exploit in this wise. As a way of driving its core aims and objectives, the NSLP organizes trainings and workshops for mid-career and senior academic stakeholders during which they are exposed to systematic guidelines on how to be effective leaders in their chosen fields of endeavour and in their daily affairs.
During the training of its second cohort in Abuja which happened between the 17th and 19th of August, 2024, twenty seven fellows, comprising of professors, doctors and senior academic eggheads, were assembled at the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) secretariat to be imparted with the tool sets and skill sets needed to do exploits in their academic endeavours and in their general undertakings. The fellows were selected through a highly competitive screening process which saw the selection of twenty seven out of the over 200 applicants who indicated interest in the training. Prior to the training, many of the fellows only had basic or peripheral knowledge of the concepts of science, research and leadership.
But after they had been exposed to other dimensions of the subject matter and how science, leadership and research are interwoven in the academic sphere, their perspectives on the.