By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
In a bid to restrategize to ensure a successful 2025 pilgrimage exercise, the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) is holding a three-day staff retreat at CSS Global Integrated Farm in Gora, Nasarawa State, from June 3 to June 5, 2025.
In a press release signed by
the Deputy Director, and Media Head, NCPC, Celestine Toruka, made available to Daybreak on Wednesday, the aim of the retreat is to reassess the performance of the 2024 Main Pilgrimage exercise and strategize for the 2025 Main Pilgrimage exercise.
The theme of this year’s retreat is “Entrenching Service and Satisfaction in Pilgrimage for Effective Service Delivery.”
Bishop Stephen Adegbite, Executive Secretary of NCPC, said, “The retreat is meant to spiritually rejuvenate every member of staff of the Commission and give us more breakthroughs in all our pilgrimage activities.We can only be satisfied when we have delivered good service.”
” I urge the staff to ensure that their reason for coming to the retreat must be achieved, thus they must shun any distraction and pay full attention to what is happening.”
Earlier, the Chairman of NCPC, Prof. Msgr Cletus Gotan, stated that the retreat is a platform to take stock of what the staff is doing.
“I urge staff members to take what brought them to the retreat seriously and represent God in whatever they do. We should no longer be business as usual.”
“The retreat will help us to change our attitude to work and be more committed to it. I also urge them to ensure that they trust each other and maintain healthy friendships at the workplace.”
The Executive Secretary Bishop Stephen Adegbite commended the Chairman of CSS Global Integrated Farm, Prof. John Kennedy Opara, whose facility was used for the retreat for laying a good foundation for NCPC during his tenure as the pioneer Executive Secretary and for his innovative contributions to the agricultural sector in Nigeria, describing his stewardship as “an unblemished record.”
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