Professor Ibrahim Gambari, former diplomat, one time Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria and Chief of Staff to immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, will on Thursday, September 25, 2025, chair an international Round Table on the Gulf of Guinea (GoG), being organized on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations (UN) General Assembly (UNGA), in New York, United States of America (USA).
The event, to be attended by top government officials, diplomats, and industry chiefs, has as its theme “Unlocking Energy, Oil & Gas, Minerals, Aviation and Maritime Opportunities in the Gulf of Guinea: A Roadmap for Peace and Security,” and has, as its conveners, Abuja-based, The New Diplomat, in collaboration with the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) which has its headquarters in Angola.
Professor Gambari, an acclaimed academic, former United Nations Under Secretary-General and two-time President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), according to the organizers, will preside over the discussions that would aim at unlocking the over $800 billion opportunities in the energy, oil and gas, aviation, rare minerals and maritime sectors of the Gulf of Guinea, as well as the more than $3trillion coastal Africa economy.
Ambassador Oma Djebah, founder of The New Diplomat and Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Thailand with concurrent accreditation to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) in Bangkok, confirmed that the historic event will have in attendance top global CEOs, government top shots, heads of regional organizations, industry chiefs, development finance experts, and serving and former diplomats from across the world.
A former two-time Commissioner for Information in Delta State, Nigeria, Ambassador Djebah also noted that the roundtable will also feature a well-informed discussion by a high-powered Panel.
