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The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced that former Minister for Power and Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke, will serve as the keynote speaker at its annual conference, set to take place on October 3, 2024, in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State.
Other notable figures, including former Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai (Retd); the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida; a Professor of Political Science at the Federal University Lokoja, Rotimi Ajayi, and an edutainment communicator and veteran broadcaster, Ms Debrah M. Ogazuma.
This was disclosed in a press statement by Danlami Nmodu, the chairman of the 2024 Conference Planning Committee. The event will be chaired by Nigeria's former Ambassador to Spain, Yusuf Mamman, and will be held at the Reverton Hotel in Lokoja.
Imoke, the statement said, would lead discussion on the theme: "Nigeria: Tackling Insecurity, Power Deficit, and Transitioning to Digital Economy" at the Reverton Hotel, GRA Lokoja, Kogi State on Thursday, October 3, 2024 by 10am.
Senator Imoke was at a time Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Utilities and Chairman, Presidential Committee on OMPADEC and NEPA Technical Boards.
In 2007, Senator Imoke was elected governor of Cross River State and served his people in that capacity from May 29, 2007 to May 29, 2015.
Imoke studied Law at the University of Buckingham, England, for his LLB degree in 1985, and then studied at the American University in Washington, D.C., where he gained a master's degree in Law. He completed his legal education at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, in 1988.
He was earlier elected a Senator in 1992 and was in the National Assembly until the military incursion, following the annulment of the presidential election of June 12,1993.
He went into private enterprise in 1993 as a Managing Consultant.
Also to play an important role at the conference is Retired Lt-General Buratai, who would be joined by Dr. Aminu Maida as Guest Speakers.
The statement further discloses that Professor Ajayi would join other panelists, including a former commissioner in Kwara state and national coordinator of West African Media Network (WAMNET), Ms Ogazuma.
The 2024 GOCOP conference is the 8th in the series and would be chaired by former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Yusuf Mamman.
The 2023 edition was chaired by the JAMB Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof Ishaq Olarenwaju Oloyede, while the first Nigerian Professor of Capital Market, Prof. Uchenna Joseph Uwaleke was the keynote speaker.
Previous speakers at the annual conference include Rev. 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, as Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, keynoted the conference and spoke on: “Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria.”
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, delivered the keynote at the 2022 edition themed “2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome.”
GOCOP was established to ensure that online publishers uphold the tenets of journalism.
Membership of the Guild comprises of editors and senior journalists, who, having distinguished themselves in their various positions in the print and electronic media, ventured into online publishing, which is both the present and future of journalism, globally.
The Guild has over 104 corporate publishers as members.
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