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President of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Oramah, has been nominated to deliver a lecture on the topic “Governance, Insecurity, Poverty and Socio-economic Development in Contemporary Nigeria and Africa.”
The public lecture, which is scheduled to hold on Thursday, February 22, 2024, at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, aimed at marking the yearly inauguration of Goddy Jidenma Foundation.
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Chairman, Board of Trustees/Founding Faculty Member, Lagos Business School and Founder, Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), Prof. Pat Utomi, who spoke during a media briefing in Lagos, said the Foundation appointed Oramah to deliver the lecture as a notable African who had made remarkable strides in developmental finance.
Utomi noted that there is no doubt Nigeria is at the nucleus of Africa’s emergence and growth.
He said that Goddy Jidenma Foundation is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation that was established in 2007 in the memory of Goddy Jidenma, who died in 2006.
Utomi said the public lecture series of the Foundation would focus on issues of national and continental relevance and proffer solutions to them, especially this time of economic hardship and insecurity in the country.
He said civil societies are not doing enough in the country currently like in 1977 when they are so strong that they forced the Federal Government to include young people in the leadership of the country.
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