Former minister for power and steel Senator Liyel Imoke has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) scheduled for October 3, 2024 in Lokoja, Kogi State capital.
Others who have confirmed their attendance are former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Buratai (retd); executive vice chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Aminu Maida; professor of political science at the Federal University Lokoja, Rotimi Ajayi, and an edutainment communicator and veteran broadcaster, Debrah Ogazuma.
Chairman, 2024 conference planning committee Danlami Nmodu disclosed these in a press statement issued on Wednesday by the publicity secretary of GOCOP, Sir Remmy Nweke.
According to the statement, Nmodu said that Imoke 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.
Imoke was at a time special adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on utilities and chairman, presidential committee on OMPADEC and NEPA technical boards.
In 2007, Imoke was elected governor of Cross River State and served his people in that capacity from May 29, 2007 to May 29, 2015.
He studied law at the University of Buckingham, England for his LLB degree in 1985, and then studied at the American University in Washington DC 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 then went into private enterprise in 1993 as a managing consultant.
Meanwhile, Buratai will be joined by Maida as guest speakers.
The statement stated that Professor Ajayi would join other panellists, including a former commissioner in Kwara State and national coordinator of West African Media Network (WAMNET), Ms Ogazuma.
The 2024 GOCOP conference is the eighth in the series and will be chaired by Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain, Yusuf Mamman.
