The Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji
Aliko Dangote, is to play the role of Chief Guest of Honour at the foundation
stone laying ceremony for the multi-purpose Editors’ Plaza, a project of the
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) scheduled for Thursday, March 1, 2018 in the
Guzape District of Abuja, reports ITRealms.
Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill
Akpabio, who is also the Senate Minority Leader will chair the event while the
Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, will perform the traditional
‘turning of the sod’ to herald the construction of a befitting plaza for
Nigerian editors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji
Mohammed Bello, and his Information and Culture counterpart, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed are also expected to grace the occasion.
Other dignitaries expected at the event are, heads of
ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), members of corporate Nigeria, the
business community, media executives, etcetera.
The turning of the sod for the Editors’ Plaza is sequel to a
fund-raiser on April 10, 2014 in Abuja under the leadership of the then
President of the Guild, Mr. Femi Adesina. The goal was to raise funds to build
a befitting secretariat for the Guild in Abuja to be named Editors’ Plaza.
Part of the money realized from the fund-raiser has been
used to acquire a property in Ikeja area of Lagos State christened Editors’
House which functions as the Guild’s secretariat in Lagos.
The President of the Guild, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, said part
of the proposed Editors’ Plaza in Abuja would serve as the Guild’s secretariat
while the rest would be leased to the public as offices.
When completed, the multi-storey edifice which sits on an
expansive 5,600Sqm piece of land will add to the vastly changing Abuja
landscape.
According to Egbemode, the construction of the Editors’
Plaza offers friends of the Guild, individuals and corporates, and all
advocates and lovers of free press an opportunity to partner with Nigerian
editors whom she described as the torchbearers of the nation’s democracy.
Uboshe Uboshe/GEE
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