Peterside To Headline Ignatius Ajuru Varsity Int’l Management Conference

The former Director General/Chief Executive of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dakuku Peterside, will deliver the keynote address at the First International Management Conference of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE).

The conference is being organised by the Department of Business Administration, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt.

Themed “Business Re-engineering: A Catalyst for Economic Development”, the two-day conference will hold on Thursday, February 26, and Friday, February 27, 2026, at the IAUOE campus.

According to a press statement by Dr James Vinazor, Head of the Department of Business Administration at IAUOE, Peterside is expected to explore the connection between firm-level and national-level productivity and business process re-engineering.

He will draw on his extensive experience advising corporate and governmental entities on how to radically rethink productivity, as well as on recent research demonstrating the link between business re-engineering and economic growth.

The address will also examine lessons from both developed and developing economies, and highlight the role of universities as catalysts for technological and institutional leapfrogging.

The conference will also feature Professor Isaac Ayandele of the University of Calabar as lead paper presenter, and will bring together members of the business community, policymakers, faculty, students and other stakeholders to interrogate how business process re-engineering is shaping the economic fortunes of nations.

Vinazor said the keynote aims to provoke a deeper conversation on the need for business process re-engineering to become a deliberate national productivity strategy.

He described Dr Peterside as uniquely positioned to address the theme, given his long-standing engagement at the intersection of policy formulation, business advisory and operational management.

Dr Vinazor added that the international conference marks a new era of town-gown collaboration that will help society tackle its most pressing and complex challenges. The event is open to all stakeholders, but prior registration is compulsory.