About The Chartered Institute of Directors Nigeria
Founded on 17 May 1983, CIoD Nigeria has been at the forefront of promoting good governance practices in Nigerian companies and the Public Sector. Through its various activities, CIoD Nigeria had helped develop professional standard of directorship, and provided best practice guidelines for company directors to perform their duties effectively.
It is CIoD Nigeria’s belief that effective Directors will lead to successful and well managed organisations resulting in enhanced shareholders value and sustainable growth of the Nigerian economy.
The Institute promotes professionalism through:
Continuous Education
Ongoing training and development to keep directors effective and relevant.
Information Sharing
Timely insights, research, and best-practice guidance for informed decision-making.
Network Opportunities
Meaningful connections with leaders across industries and sectors.
Promoting competence
Upholding high standards of leadership, ethics, and governance.
Celebrating Excellence
Recognising outstanding leadership and organisational performance.
The Institute at a Glance
Who We Are
The Chartered Institute of Directors Nigeria (CIoD Nigeria) is the apex professional body representing directors in their individual capacities across all sectors of the Nigerian economy. The Institute works closely with government, corporate organisations, bilateral chambers, and diplomatic missions to raise standards of corporate governance and leadership in both the public and private sectors, attracting high-calibre members in the process.
What We Stand For
CIoD Nigeria is committed to strengthening the professional capacity of directors, business leaders, technocrats, and senior public servants through internationally recognised Director Development Programmes. These efforts are focused on building ethical, competent, and effective leadership across all sectors of the economy.
Advocacy, Influence, and Impact
The Institute actively promotes corporate governance and best practices across the public and private sectors, engaging policymakers and stakeholders while representing members’ interests locally, continentally, and globally through the Africa Corporate Governance Network (ACGN).
Membership and Recognition
CIoD Nigeria is a not-for-profit, membership-based organisation recognised locally and internationally for its leadership in corporate governance practice and advocacy. Its success is measured by the impact of its members—experienced leaders drawn from across the public and private sectors. Membership spans five categories and is accessed through clearly defined criteria and a rigorous evaluation process.
Vision
To be a leading world-class professional institute consistently promoting best Corporate Governance practices, director development and advocacy.
Mission
To build capacity of directors by competent and committed professionals through well-developed programmes, mentoring schemes, sound ethical practices and enrich public policy through advocacy.
IMPACT
Our Objective
To establish and conduct an Institute to safeguard and promote the interest in Nigeria of Directors of companies, business executives and professional people by carrying on of activities which are intended to:
(i) Improve the professional competence of its members as company directors and business leaders in Nigeria.
(ii) Provide an active forum and effective voice for its members in public affairs.
(iii) Charter its members as Directors and formulate and monitor the ethics of Directors as professionals.
(iv) Enlighten and educate its members regarding their legal, moral, and general rights and responsibilities in respect of their companies and organizations and in respect of the society as a whole.
(v) Advance the competence and knowledge of its members by arranging and sponsoring seminars, course of study, conferences, and visits within and outside Nigeria.
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- vi) Encourage, promote and co-ordinate research into relevant subjects and to compile, publish or sponsor the publication of journals in Nigeria and to print and publish any newspapers, periodicals, bulletins books or leaflets that the institute may think fit for the promotion of its objects.
vii) Take a continuing and effective interest in legislation to ensure as far as possible that basic commercial freedoms and rights are preserved and that a climate conducive to strong economic growth is maintained in the country.
viii) Uphold, maintain, and improve the economic climate for the promotion of the concepts of corporate entity/personality, free enterprise, the welfare of the state and stable government in respect thereof.
(ix) Maintain and strengthen the bonds of reciprocity existing between the Institute of Directors all over the world.
(x) Assemble, maintain, and extend such collection of books and publications including microfilm, reading and copying as it considers appropriate to an educational research library of the highest standing for the use of such persons as it thinks fit and upon such terms and conditions as it considers necessary.
(xi) Provide facilities and services of all kinds, including rooms, libraries, travel arrangements, meeting places, recreational facilities, and offices for the use of members of the Institute.
(xii) Create, administer, and support bursaries, chairs, exhibitions, fellowship, lectures, prizes and scholarships for the advancement or encouragement of learning and study tenable at any school, technical institution, university or other places of learning and study.
(xiii) Undertake, administer, and support or assist in undertaking, administering, and supporting organizations, projects, research schemes and campaigns which may assist in the attainment or advancement of any of the objects of the Institute.
(xiv) Engage in consultancy and advisory services generally on a non-commercial basis.
(xv) To establish such number of Branches of the Institute of Directors Nigeria and in such locations as it deems fit to enable it carry out any of its objects mentioned above.
CIoD Nigeria aims to achieve these objects through:
Promoting corporate governance practices and standards through continuing development of policy notes, position papers and guidelines
Enabling and developing directors’ skills through director development programmes, creating a platform of peer interaction and the exchange of learning and ideas through networking events as well as advisory services and the facilitation of board appraisals
Safeguarding the integrity and status of directorship as a profession by being recognised as a professional body for directors.
Advocating and providing an effective voice for directors in public affairs through effective liaison with regulators and media.
Providing ancillary benefits for members by maintaining a non-executive director register and negotiation of benefits from a variety of third parties.