LAGOS (Sundiata Post) – Some Federal Government agencies, bluechip companies and organisations have confirmed their support for the hosting of the Realnews 12th Anniversary Lecture. The lecture will hold the Lagos Sheraton Hotel and Towers on Tuesday, November 19, starting at 10 am.
The organisations include the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board, NCDMB, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Shell Nigeria, the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Zenith, and Access Bank Plc.
Expressing Realnews’ appreciation to the organisations, Maureen Chigbo, its publisher, prayed to God to bless them and give their management the wisdom to lift their organisations to greater heights and prosperity.
Chigbo also expressed her deep appreciation to all the banks, institutions, companies, and other organisations that have placed online advertisements on the Realnews website in the last 12 years. “Without their support, we would not have remained in business all through the years to do what we love best – investigative journalism,”
The theme of Realnews 12th Anniversary Lecture is ‘Africa in World Shifting Geopolitics: Matters Arising on Democracy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Resources’. The Lecture which will be chaired by Ms. Beatrice Eyong, Country Chair, UN Women, will be delivered by Ambassador Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr. Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President of Policy Center for New South, Rabat, Morocco, will keynote the conference.
The lecture will feature Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman as the special guest/discussant along with Shehu Tijjani, Managing Director, Amal Technology Ltd.
Chigbo said there would be an investiture of all the speakers into The Realnews Hall of Fame immediately after the Lecture. She explained that the Realnews Hall of Fame was established to honour only those who played key roles during the anniversary lectures.
Realnews is a general interest magazine, is an online publication that thrives on investigative journalism.
Sundiata Post recalls that the Realnews Anniversary Lecture Series was established to commemorate the Nigerian society’s best minds and tap into them to enrich the discourse on national development.
