{"id":21398,"date":"2026-04-13T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=21398"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:55:06","slug":"ncdmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/ncdmb\/","title":{"rendered":"NCDMB: Institutional Reform Icon, Peterside, Shares Game-Changing Leadership Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will host Nigeria\u2019s foremost crisis leadership and turnaround expert, Dr Dakuku Peterside, for an exclusive leadership briefing on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>This event marks the fourth in NCDMB\u2019s acclaimed series spotlighting prominent Nigerian authors to promote literacy and critical thinking. For the first time, it features a leadership scholar: Dr Peterside and his award-winning book, <em>Leading in a Storm<\/em>. Named THISDAY\u2019s Leadership Book of the Year 2025 and one of six Independent Newspaper must-reads for 2025, the book delivers practical strategies for thriving amid crises.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Peterside will share game-changing insights on crisis leadership in Nigeria, the oil and gas industry, and broader development challenges. A reform-minded thinker and management turnaround specialist, he equips public-sector and business leaders to manage change, navigate crises, and drive large-scale transformations.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg Professor Loran Nordgren calls <em>Leading in a Storm<\/em> \u201ca must-read for any leader who wants to navigate the storms on the horizon successfully. Hugh O\u2019Doherty of Harvard Kennedy School describes it as \u201ca practical manual.\u201d At the same time, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission and Professor of Leadership, praises it as \u201ca defining contribution to leadership practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"sundi-1009643424\" class=\"sundi-content-2 sundi-entity-placement\">\n<div class=\"iframely-embed\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\">With over 24 years of high-level experience across public and private sectors, Dr Peterside has transformed complex institutions and programmes through systemic reform. He serves as an adjunct lecturer at top business schools, mentoring emerging leaders with real-world wisdom. Author of two other books and developing a fourth, he remains a pivotal voice in values-driven leadership development.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through its corporate communications and social responsibility initiatives, NCDMB champions scholarly works by Nigerian authors\u2014fiction and non-fiction alike\u2014to foster knowledge and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will host Nigeria\u2019s foremost crisis leadership and turnaround expert, Dr Dakuku Peterside,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21400,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398\/revisions\/21400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}