EL-RUFAI, GUEST SPEAKER AT 2015 WOLE SOYINKA CENTRE MEDIA LECTURE SERIES

By: Damilola Ogunmuko

The 7th Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series has been scheduled to hold on Monday 13 July 2015 by 1pm at the Sheraton Hotel Abuja. The event which is billed to have Malam Nasir El Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State as Guest Speaker is organised in collaboration with the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) to kick-start the partners’, Media for Oil Programme.
This year’s lecture with the theme “Nigeria and the oil fortune” is intended to contribute to strategic
thinking on charting a way forward to ameliorate threats on oil as the main stay of the Nigerian economy. Furthermore, the lecture is meant to help decision makers and persons at every sphere of affairs appreciate the need for the country to safeguard its future by implementing sustainable measures for its resource governance system.
The Lecture series, whose maiden edition was hosted in 2008, was designed to periodically examine varying topical issues that have a reverberating effect on the perceived performance of the media on the health of our country, Nigeria, and its democracy. It is usually a well attended programme with a good spread of media professionals, civil society organisations, students, government officials, leaders of industries and members of the diplomatic corp.

The tradition of holding the event on July 13, which this year is Professor Soyinka’s 81st birthday, started in 2009 a bid to honour this illustrious global citizen even as well as draw attention to current national
issues.