Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, September 24, 2023
The first Nigerian professor of Capital Market, Prof. Uchenna Joseph Uwaleke, has been named the keynote speaker of the 2023 annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP).
Confirming this, the chairman of the GOCOP 7th Conference Planning Committee and deputy president, Mr. Danlami Nmodu, mni, said that Prof Uwaleke who is currently the Special Adviser to the Senate Committee Chairman on Capital Market will be giving a keynote on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at Abuja Continental Hotel (Old Sheraton Hotel) Abuja.
A press statement from GOCOP Publicity Secretary, Remmy Nweke, quoted Danlami as saying that Prof. Uwaleke, would dwell on the theme: “Nigeria: Roadmap for Socio-Economic Recovery and Sustainability.” The Conference will be chaired by Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede.
Danlami also said that the choice of the topic is informed by the current socio-political and economic realities facing Nigeria, where a new set of leaders at national and state levels has emerged after the 2023 general elections.
Nweke recalls that Prof. Uwaleke is a professor of Finance and Capital market at Nasarawa State University Keffi.
He was also the Finance Commissioner in Imo State under the governorship of Chief Emeka Ihedioha.
Previous speakers at GOCOP annual conferences, he said, include the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmood, who in 2022, spoke on ‘2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome’; Mr. Boss Mustapha, then Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), who in 2021, keynoted the conference in his capacity as Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, on the theme, “Post COVID-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria.”
The statement also said that the Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, delivered the 2019 lecture on: “Economy, Security and National Development: The Way Forward.”
About GOCOP:
GOCOP, an association of senior journalists, who had distinguished themselves in such positions as Editors, Chairmen of Editorial Boards and line Editors in the print and electronic media before venturing into online publishing, was established to ensure that online publishers uphold the tenets of journalism. Currently, the Guild has over 90 publishers as members.
