The former Deputy
Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, has been
confirmed as the keynote speaker at the 2018 edition of The Bullion Lecture, reports ITRealms.
Professor Moghalu,
currently the President, Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation,
was until recently, Professor of Practice in International Business and Public
Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, United
States of America.
According to a press statement
issued in Lagos by Ray Echebiri, Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Financial Journalism (CFJ Nigeria),
Prof. Moghalu is a global leader who has made contributions to the stability,
progress and wealth of nations, communities and individuals across such domains
as academia, economic policy, banking and finance, entrepreneurship, law and
diplomacy.
“Moghalu will be speaking on The Wealth of Nations and the Imperative of Economic Transformation,”
he said.
Echebiri
explained that The Bullion Lecture, is a platform conceptualised by Centre
for Financial Journalism (CFJ Nigeria) for lively discourse on national and
international issues, often delivered by first-rate academics and
professionals.
The 2018 edition, he said, The Bullion Lecture
will hold 10am on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at The Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe
Road, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Lecture, he also said, will be chaired by erudite
Lawyer and Economist, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, Chairman, Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC).
Distinguished panelists who will dissect the
lecture are Ms. Patience Oniha, Director General, Debt Management Office; Mr. Obinna
Onunkwo, Managing Partner, Purple Capital; and Mr. Ade Adefeko, Vice President,
Government and Corporate Affairs, Olam Nigeria.
While Ms. Oniha will dwell
topically on public debt management and economic transformation, Mr. Onunkwo
will focus on private capital and economic transformation, and Mr. Adefeko will
be looking at agriculture and economic transformation.
Expected
guests at the lecture include government officials, captains of industry, the
cream of Nigeria’s banking and finance industry, members of the diplomatic
corps, representatives of multilateral institutions, senior media executives
and other journalists, and members of the public.
CFJ Nigeria, organisers of The Bullion Lecture, was
established to provide specialised training programmes in financial journalism
with a view to addressing the knowledge and skills gap in the practice of the
trade, and to conduct research on financial journalism, business, the economy, development
and banking and finance.
Ayo Midele/GEE
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