The 2021 edition of the annual Directors’ Conference of the Institute of Directors Nigeria is scheduled to hold from 23 to 24 November 2021 at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
According to Chief Dele Alimi, Director General/CEO of IoD, the conference tagged: ‘Creating the Future: Deepening Corporate Governance Practice through Multi-Sectoral and Multi-Generational Collaborations,’ will be declared opened by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is the special guest of honour.
Serial entrepreneur, youth mobiliser, consummate banker and one of Africa’s shining stars in governance, Mr. Tony Elumelu, the Chairman of Heirs Holding will be the keynote speaker while the Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdul Samad Rabiu is expected to be the as Chairman of the opening session.
Also expected at the conference as guests of honour are the Minister of Industry, Trade & Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, and his counterpart at the Ministry of Labour & Productivity, Dr. Peter Ngige.
Speaking at a press conference to formally announce the hosting of the Conference, the President and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Institute, Dr. (Mrs.) Ije Jidenma, said the annual Directors’ conference was one the major tools of advocacy and engagement of the Institute.
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According to her, “this flagship event is the heart of the Institute’s public engagement series where stakeholders from both the private and public sectors converge to discuss key issues on leadership, ethics, economy, and business, amongst others.”
Also speaking at the Conference, the Chairman of the National Organising Committee of the Conference, Alhaji Lamis S. Dikko, pointed out that the 2021 edition would focus on the significance of engaging new generation directors, young entrepreneurs and the public sector in the quest to deepen the practice of sound corporate governance.
Speaking further, Dikko stated that the two-day event would be broken into four plenary sessions over the two-day period, with each of these sessions addressing the following sub-themes.
He added that that the conference would be rounded off in the evening of Wednesday, 24 November 2021 with a Special Government Meet Business Dinner, where the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Usman, would be the special guest of honour and the Minister of the FCT, Mallam Muhammed Musa Bello is Chairman.
The guest speaker at the conference is the governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde.
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