LAGOS (Sundiata Post) – Prof Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), will serve as the chairman of the 2023 Annual Conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP).
This was disclosed by the chairman of 2023 Conference Planning Committee, Danlami Nmodu, in a statement issued on Thursday by the Publicity Secretary of GOCOP, Mr Remmy Nweke.
According to Nmodu, the conference would be held at Abuja Continental Hotel (formerly Sheraton Hotel) in the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday October 5, 2023 at 10.00am.
He also said that the theme for the 2023 conference is ‘Nigeria: Roadmap for Socio-Economic Recovery and Sustainability.’
Nmodu further said the choice of the topic is informed by current socio-political and economic realities facing Nigeria, where a new set of leaders at national and state levels has emerged after the 2023 general elections.
He recalled that Ishaq Oloyede, a Nigerian professor of Islamic Studies and academic, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, was reappointed Registrar and CEO of JAMB for the second term in 2021 by the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari.
Oloyede is equally the Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs since 2013.
Past speakers at the GOCOP Annual Conference include: Rev. (Dr) Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, who delivered the 2019 lecture on “Economy, Security and National Development: The Way Forward”.
In 2021, Mr. Boss Mustapha, then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, keynoted the conference in his capacity as Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. He spoke on: “Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria”.
In 2022, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, delivered the address titled: “2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome.”
Nweke further said GOCOP was established to ensure that online publishers uphold the tenets of journalism in doing their jobs.
He said “our membership is a constellation of editors and senior journalists, whom, having distinguished themselves in their various stations in the print and electronic media, ventured into online publishing which is both the present and future of journalism globally. “Currently, the Guild has over 90 corporate publishers as members.”
