The former World Bank Vice President and past Nigerian
minister of education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has been confirmed to deliver the
keynote address at the Fifth Anniversary Lecture of Realnews Magazine, reports ITRealms.
The lecture, ITRealms
gathered, has been scheduled to hold on Thursday, November 16, 2017, at the
Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, by 10 am.
Publisher of Realnews Magazine Online, Maureen Chigbo,
confirmed this to ITRealms, saying
that Ezekwesili, who is the co-founder of Transparency International, will
speak on “African Leadership in a Turbulent Era”.
She will be delivering the lecture barely a month
after the Sweden-based International Institute for Democracy and
Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) appointed her along with
Kofi Annan, former United Nations secretary general among others as
an Ambassador to champion the study on Global State of Democracy.
Chigbo stressed that Ezekwesili will be the first female to
give the Realnews Anniversary Lecture series which was established to celebrate
the best minds in our society and tap into their repository of knowledge to
enrich the discourse on national and international development.
Realnews past anniversary lecturers included Dr. Ibn Mohamed
Chambers, United Nations Secretary General’s special representative to West
African and Sahel (2016); Professor Chukwuma Soludo, former governor, Central
Bank of Nigeria, CBN, (2015) and Professor Maurice Iwu, former chairman,
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, (2014).
Chigbo said that the lecture will bring together many
policy and decision makers from the private and public sectors as well as
non-governmental organizations and the media.
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