Lagos charges officers to drive innovation

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The Lagos State Government has urged Learning and Development Schedule Officers across the state public service to embrace a culture of continuous innovation and measurable impact.

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The Head of Service of the state, Bode Agoro, gave the charge while speaking at Bootcamp 3.0 organised for Learning and Development Schedule Officers in Lekki from Thursday to Saturday.

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According to a statement signed by the Head of Public Affairs Unit at the Ministry of Establishment and Training, Omisore Babatunde, the HoS said the officers play a critical role as custodians of institutional knowledge and change agents.

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Agoro said, “As Learning and Development Schedule Officers, you occupy a position of strategic importance. This Bootcamp 3.0 is a deliberate intervention to move beyond the traditional models of training and embrace a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and measurable impact.”

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He also urged participants to return to their respective Ministries, Departments, and Agencies equipped to measure true return on investment rather than mere workshop attendance.

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Also speaking at the event, the state Commissioner for Establishments and Training, Afolabi Ayantayo, said that human capital had remained the greatest asset under the leadership of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

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He added that building a future-ready, professional, and agile workforce required moving away from viewing training as a mere administrative routine.

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“We must now measure success by tangible performance improvements: resolving operational bottlenecks, enhancing inter-departmental collaboration, and directly translating into better, faster, and more courteous service delivery for the citizens of Lagos State,” Ayantayo noted.

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Highlighting the administrative milestones of the initiative, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Establishments and Training, Dr Olubusola Abidakun, said, “Over the next three days, our goal is to transition our L&D officers from administrative coordinators into strategic performance architects that exhibit noble impacts through learning agility, precise needs analysis, and robust post-training evaluation.”

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The state noted that the initiative, themed “From Learning to Impact: Strengthening Capacity for a High-Performing Public Service,” was a deliberate institutional shift from traditional, box-ticking compliance training towards a metrics-driven culture focused on tangible workplace transformation and data analytics.

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The state Ministry of Establishments and Training is known to regularly organise capacity-building and in-service training programmes for public workers across different cadres to enhance service delivery and productivity.

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