Keynote speaker arrives for Realnews 12th anniversary lecture
With the arrival earlier today of the guest speaker KARIM El Aynaoui, all is now set for the 12th edition of the annual lecture series, organised by the leading online publication Realnews, slated for tomorrow Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at Sheraton Lagos, Hotel and Towers Ikeja.
This year’s edition has as its topic: Africa in Shifting Geopolitics: Matters Arising on Demography, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, National Resources”. The guest speaker, KARIM El Aynaoui, Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South, in Rabat, Morocco, is a notable economist.
El Aynaoui contributions at the Policy Center for the New South, PCNS, a Moroccan Think Tank that works to improve social and economic public policies in Africa and the Global South, makes him a perfect fit for this year’s theme.
Aynaoui arrived Lagos earlier today and was warmly received by a team of Realnews magazine and publication officials led by Maureen Chigbo, Publisher/Editor, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja, Lagos. He was accompanied by Abdelhak Bassou, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Rabat, Morocco, who is also the Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster.
Realnews anniversary lecture series was established to commemorate the best minds in our society and to tap from them to enrich the discourse in our national development.
The 11th anniversary lecture in 2023 on the threats of illicit funds flow to the African economy was delivered by Dr. Edwin w. Harris jr., Director-General, ECOWAS Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA).
The 10th anniversary lecture in 2022 on “Drug Abuse among Youths in Africa: Implication for Nigerian Economy and 2023 Elections” was delivered by Brig- General Buba Marwa, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA; 9th Anniversary Lecture of Realnews in 2021 was delivered by Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board on “Nigeria in the Unfolding Integration of the African Market: the oil and gas perspective”; 2020 Eighth Anniversary Lecture of Realnews was delivered by Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 on Managing Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa: the Nigeria Experience; Former President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana gave the 2019 Lecture on Beyond Politics: an Economic Narrative for West Africa while Prof. Mahmood Yakubu spoke on Political transitions and Africa’s Economic Development: Preparations for Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections at the 2018 Lecture. The 2017 Fifth Anniversary Lecture on African Leadership in a Turbulent era was delivered by Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, former Minister of Education and former World Bank Vice President. The 2016 Fourth Anniversary Lecture on Security and National Development in Plural Democratic Society was delivered by Dr. Mohamed ibn Chambas, former United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative to West Africa and the Sahel; the 2015 Realnews Third Anniversary Lecture was delivered by Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on November 19, 2015, under the theme: It’s the Nigerian Economy Stupid? The Second Realnews Anniversary Lecture On Nigerian Democracy: Getting It Right In 2014 was delivered by Professor Maurice Iwu, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
