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MANPOWER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NIGERIAN. PUBLIC SERVICE. Olu Okotoni1 and John Erero2. The importance of TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT is more obvious given the growing complexity of the work environment, the rapid change in organizations and ad- vancement in technology, among other things. TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT helps to ensure that organisational members possess the knowledge and skills they need to perform their jobs effectively, take on new responsibilities, and adapt to changing conditions. Despite the recognition of the importance of TRAINING by management experts and government as expressed in white papers on various reforms in Nigeria, the experience of MANPOWER TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT in the Nigeria public service has been more of ruse a

2 AJPAM Vol XVI, No. 1 • January 2005 importance of human resources develop-ment (HRD), the International Labour Of-fice (2000) affirmed that development and training improves their trainees’ “prospects

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