Former World Bank Vice President and former Nigerian Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, will on November 16 deliver the fifth anniversary lecture of Realnews Magazine at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.
Ezekwesili, who is the co-founder of Transparency International, will speak on “African Leadership in a Turbulent Era”.
She will be delivering the lecture barely a month after the Sweden-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) appointed her along with Kofi Annan, former United Nations secretary general among others as an Ambassador to champion the study on the Global State of Democracy.
Publisher of Realnews Magazine, Maureen Chigbo, stressed that Ezekwesili will be the first female to give the anniversary lecture which was established to celebrate the best minds in the Nigerian society and tap into their repository of knowledge to enrich the discourse on national and international development.
Past lecturers include Dr. Ibn Mohamed Chambers, United Nations Secretary General’s special representative to West African and Sahel (2016); Professor Chukwuma Soludo, former governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, (2015) and Professor Maurice Iwu, former chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, (2014).
Chigbo said that the lecture will bring together many policy and decision makers from the private and public sectors as well as non-governmental organizations and the media.
