Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth and a leading authority on Nigerian affairs, Richard Joseph, a Professor of the Northwestern University, United States of America, will lead a pack of academics, scholars and activists to discuss the Nigerian challenges in democracy, economy and society.
Under the aegis of an international conference with the theme “Getting government to work for democracy and development: an agenda for change”, which holds at the International Conference Cemtre, Ibadan, on February 1 and 2, 2016, the former president will lead other scholars to discuss the way out of the logjams.
The conference, a maiden effort of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy, according to its Executive Vice Chairman, Tunji Olaopa, will seek to fill in the noticeable missing gaps in governance and public policies.
According to the release, Joseph, writer of the authoritative book on Nigeria’s Second Republic entitled
Nigeria and prebendal politics, will be delivering a paper on State and democratic development in Africa: The Nigerian challenge, while the governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, the Pro-Chancellor of the Pan-Atlantic University, Christopher Kolade, former Head of Service of the Federation, Oladapo Afolabi, a former Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Abel Idowu Olayinka and Shuaib Ibrahim, both professors President of the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) will be delivering goodwill messages at the conference.
The release further stated that one of the issues that the conference will deliberate upon is one with the title, The economy: What is to be done, with economic experts like Osita Ogbu, professor of economics and Director, Institute of Development, Akin Iwayemi, Professor and ex-President, Institute of Development Studies, Pat Utomi, Ayo Teriba and Professor D. O. Ajakaiye, former DG NISER as discussants.
Minister of Solid Minerals, Kayode Fayemi, according to the release, will also lead other discussants to discuss Infrastructure, National Asset Management and National Productivity, alongside former Minster of Communication Technology, Omobola Johnson and Imonitie Imoisil.
Tade Aina,a Professor of the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), Emeritus Akin Osuntokun, Professor Amadu Sesay, Alaba Ogunsanwo, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Adele Jinadu, Professor Tunde Adeniran, both Professors poet Odia Ofemun and A. L. Mabogunje,a Professor are some of the leading scholars expected at the 2-day conference.
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