Corporate Head Office

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Lagos Training Complex

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Lagos Training Complex, Shangisha

Basic MANDEV

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Basic Management Trainer's Development Workshop

Advanced Mandev

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Advanced Management Trainer's Development Workshop

What do we offer?

Automated Accreditation

The accreditation Division provides information and advisory services...

Automated Accreditation

The accreditation Division provides information and advisory services to trainers and training firms/institutions on accreditation and registration. Division handles the coordination of (among others):

Accurate Research and Consultancy

Providing guidance for and supervision of individual, group...

Accurate Research and Consultancy

Providing guidance for and supervision of individual, group or commissioned research.

ICT Driven Manpower Development

One of the core statutory functions of the CMD..

ICT Driven Manpower development

One of the core statutory functions of the Centre for Management Development (CMD) is developing and promoting high national standard of management education.

PGD/MBA Programmes

The Academic Programme Division (APD) was saddled with the responsibility...

PGD/MBA Programmes

The Academic Programme Division (APD) was saddled with the responsibility of coordinating these postgraduate programmes in collaboration with the University of Ibadan. Specifically, the main functions of the Division include:-

From The Director-General's Desk

The Centre for Management Development is the apex management development institute strategically positioned under the National Planning arm of the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.

The Centre has its legal backing as the operational arm of the Nigeria Council for Management Development NCMD ACT 2022 (as amended); with the Council as the regulator of the management training and consultancy sector in Nigeria.

The Centre’s mandates include the stimulation, promotion and coordination of management training, consultancy, research and education which it delivers effectively with the support of stakeholders including international technical partners. It was certified a Centre of Excellence by UNIDO in 1988. A status it relentlessly sustains.

Mr. Bitrus D. Chinoko

Director-General, CMD

CMD is Nigeria's apex Management Development Institute

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Our Departments

Office of the
Director-General

The responsibilities of the divisions that make up the Office of the Director-General are outlined below

Administration and Human Resources

The Administration and Personnel Management Division’s functions include the following:

Accreditation & Curriculum Dev.

The Accreditation and Curriculum Development Department is charged with carrying out the Centre’s role of...

Information Communication & Technology

Information Communication & Technology is structured into three divisions:

Entrepreneurship and Business Development

One of the core statutory functions of the Centre for Management Development (CMD)...

Economic Management

The Economic Management Department with four divisons viz: Macro, Sectoral, Economic Policy, and Financial Management Divisions

Finance & Accounts

In view of its strategic position and for the purposes of enhancing its operation, the Finance and Accounts Department is made up of two divisions...

Research & Consultancy

The department is tasked with carrying out research and consulting assignments for the Centre, MDAs at National and Sub-National Level, NGOs and SMEs

Learning & Development

The Centre through the Learning and Development Department currently runs over a hundred and twenty scheduled training programmes..