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| Ambassador Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff to former President Muhammadu Buhari. |
Several prominent companies and organizations are backing the Realnews 12th Anniversary Lecture, set to take place at the Sheraton Hotel on Tuesday, November 19, starting at 10 AM.
Supporting entities include the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL); the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB); the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA); Shell Nigeria; Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG); the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); Zenith Bank, 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,” she said in a press release.
According to the press release, 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 to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr. Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President of Policy Center for New South, Rabat, Morocco, will keynote the conference.
Venue for the lecture is the Sheraton Hotel and time is 10 am. The lecture will feature Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman as the Special Guest/discussant along with Engr. Shehu Tijjani, Managing Director, Amal Technology Ltd.
Chigbo also said there will be an investiture of all the speakers, immediately after the Lecture, into The Realnews Hall of Fame, which was established to honour only those who played key roles during the anniversary lectures.
Realnews, a general interest magazine, is an online publication that thrives on investigative journalism. “We have expertise in reporting the oil and gas sector with its attendant environmental challenges,” organizers if the lecture said, adding, “We aim to unearth exclusive stories about real people and the challenges they face in their day-to-day activities. We do this bearing in mind that government can only act to influence the lives of people positively if they are aware of their true situation.”
“Hence, our objective is to use our investigative skills to ferret out information in the sectors we focus on and produce an unbiased report that will influence the government and decision-makers to take actions that will make society better.”
Realnews, the press release further explains, is populated by seasoned journalists who believe strongly in the tenets and ethics of the profession.
“The online publication believes that journalism as the fourth Estate of the Realm can contribute its quota towards building a fair and just society where fundamental human rights are respected and citizens have the freedom to pursue their interests anywhere in the world without hindrance,” it added.
Its editors, it maintains, “have a combined experience of several decades in active journalism practice and are highly dedicated to serving humanity. Hence its motto: “For God and Humanity.
The Realnews Anniversary Lecture Series was established to commemorate the society’s best minds and tap into them to enrich the discourse on our national development, Chigbo also said.
The 11th anniversary lecture of Realnews was delivered by Edwin W. Harris Jr., Director General of the ECOWAS Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Senegal, on the “Threats of Illicit Funds Flow to the African Economy,” while the 10th edition in 2022 was on “Drug Abuse among Youths in Africa: Implication for Nigerian Economy and 2023 Elections.” It was delivered by Brig General Buba Marwa, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, among others.
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