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  • Conference on emotion intelligence holds in Lagos

    The Africa Emotional Intelligence Conference(AEIC) will hold in Lagos between May 30  and 31.

    A statement issued by the Chief Executive Officer of Pause Factory, Mr. Enahoro Okhae, said the conference will expose and equip participants with the emotional intelligence skills, competencies  and models they need to be resilient, optimistic, empathetic, and purposeful in their careers and endeavours.

    He also said it would help organizations to become more productive and profitable.

    According to Enahoro, who is an emotional intelligence expert, the summit, which is the  first in Africa, is the panacea for enlarged emotional  capacities and work-related attitudes and performance.

    The summit comes  up at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos.

    He said: “We are in an increasingly competitive work and family environment and the onus is on every organization and individual to  enhance their emotional intelligence capacity,” adding that the purpose  of the conference is, “to share research, emotional intelligence best practice and implementation strategies, and to network with like-minded change makers.

    “It is a moment of choice. We want to empower people with this amazing  tool of emotional intelligence, regardless of age, creed, religion or ethnicity, so people can make changes in their lives and in their communities.”

  • Firm to hold conference

    This year’s edition of the Nigerian Facilities Management Roundtable will hold in Lagos on Wednesday. The conference, organised by Alpha Mead Group is themed:  ”Enabling Positive Experiences in a Post-Recession Real Estate Market”.

    According to the Group Managing Director of the firm, Femi Akintunde, the conference seeks to highlight how facilities management plays an integral role in enabling positive experience for all stakeholders in the real estate value chain of FM service providers, customers, employees, government, etc. This year’s edition, according to the organisers, will take a clinical look at the infrastructure sector, especially with the increasing interests in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model by both states and Federal Government.

    The conference, he further explained, seeks to proffer aid to how employees’ can aid productivity and business profitability, including how landlords can attract the right tenants and retain them. Other highlights at the conference will include how FM can help improve the experience in the healthcare space and rescue the country from the challenges of medical tourism

    The keynote address will be delivered by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita.  Other speakers include the Ag. Director General, Infrastructure Concessioning Regulatory Agency (ICRC), Mr. Chidi Izuwah; the Director General, Lagos State Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Office, Ope George; amongst others.

  • All set for NBA criminal justice conference, says Okafor

    All is set for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) criminal justice reform conference which opens tomorrow in Asaba, the Delta State capital, Chairman of the NBA Criminal Justice Reform Committee, Chief Arthur Obi Okafor (SAN), said yesterday.

    Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Acting Chairman Mr. Ibrahim Magu,  his Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) counterpart, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai are among the dignitaries expected at the event.

    Okafor, at a briefing in Asaba, said other expected guests are the Director-General of National Agency Against Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP)  Ms. Julie Okah-Donli, Acting Chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Mr. Usman Abubakar, Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, National Judicial Council (NJC) committee on monitoring of corruption cases and trials (COTRIMTO), Justice Suleiman Galadima (rtd.), Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai and Controller-General of Immigration, Mr. Mohammed Babandede.

    Okafor said: “The conference is the fifth in the series organised by the NBA Administration of Criminal Justice Reform Committee and spanning several years. Equally instructive is the fact that resolutions from these conferences have contributed immensely in reshaping our criminal justice sector.

    “Perhaps worthy of special mention is the ground-breaking Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, which is a direct outcome of some of these conferences. “This conference will undertake a painstaking and holistic review of the Act with a view to tackling challenges and plugging all loopholes relating to its smooth implementation.’’

  • Texas University hosts conference on Africa

    Executive Chairman of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy (ISGPP) Dr Tunji Olaopa is expected to deliver a paper at the 18th edition of the African Conference in the United States.

    The conference would hold from March 30 to April 1 at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. The theme of this year’s conference is: “Leadership and Institutions in Africa”.

    According to the convener, Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas, the conference will discuss and analyse thematic issues that are germane to the understanding of Africa and Africa in Diaspora.

    He said two hundred papers are to be presented at the conference. Olaopa’s paper is expected to interrogate the relationship between the factor of leadership and the structural imperatives of institutions as basis for understanding the decisional capacities of African leaders who are expected to pilot Africa into global economic competitiveness.

    The highlights of the conference is the announcement of winners of the Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award, Ali Mazuri award for research excellence and the Barbara Harlow Price.

     

  • NBA SLP holds conference

    The Nigerian Bar Association’s Section on Legal Practice (NBA-SLP) has invited lawyers to its annual conference.

    It will hold from April 12   at the NBA Port Harcourt Branch House, Bank Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, by 9am.

    The theme is: Re-Thinking and Re-Tooling Legal Practice for the challenges of our time.

    A statement by the section’s chairman Mrs. Miannaya  Essien said a broad range of topics would be covered, such as professional ethics and disciplinary issues, lawyers fee earning capabilities, election matters, effective prosecution of white collar and economic crimes, among others.

    Admission to the conference will be free for SLP members who must register to attend.

    The Section as called for  articles for publication in SLP Journal  which is underway.

    The SLP is the section for all lawyers irrespective of areas of specialisation.

     

     

     

     

  • Nigeria housing finance conference for Abuja

    A two-day Nigeria Housing Finance Conference with the theme: ”Impact of Housing on National Economic Development” begins tomorrow in Abuja.

    According to Finance Africa, the organisers, the goals of the conference are to evaluate and deepen understanding of existing structures and policies in Nigeria housing finance.

    It will also showcase global best practices and success stories, generate ideas and recommend policy initiatives and action plans for a lasting solution to financing housing deficit in Nigeria especially for people in the low and medium income brackets.

    The conference is also designed to create networking and investment opportunities for housing stakeholders.

    Apart from creating networking and investment opportunities for housing stakeholders, the conference is also expected to provide linkages for investors, financiers, developers, manufacturers of building materials, infrastructure companies, estate managers, risks underwriters and off takers.

  • Ikechukwu: let’s implement 2014 Conference report

    Ikechukwu: let’s implement 2014 Conference report

    Ex-Foreign Minister and senator Maj.-Gen. Ike Nwachukwu has re-echoed the need for the Federal Government to implement the 2014 National Conference report, saying it addressed issues of restructuring in the country.

    He spoke at the retreat of Southern Senators’ Forum in Calabar on Saturday.

    Nwachukwu said it would be injustice to Nigeria not to have recommendations of the report implemented in view of its relevance to the call for restructuring.

    “I had the privilege in 2005 of serving as a member of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Political Reform Conference and it rolled into 2014 National Conference.

    “I will dare to say that the amount of work put into the 2014 conference, of course, building on the outcome of the 2005 conference, produced a fantastic report.

    “It will be total injustice to Nigeria if the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference are jettisoned.

    “Most of what we are talking about today were raised there, and after several weeks of grinding discussions, the report was drafted.

    “I recommend it to the Nigerian legislature to take a look at and use it in finding solution to our present problems,’’

    Nwachukwu urged President Muhammadu Buhari to make history by heeding to the call of the people to implement the report.

    “I want to say to my senior colleague, President Muhammadu Buhari, that he has a fantastic opportunity in history.

    “He has the privilege to call a meeting of well-meaning Nigerians to take a look at the report to be able to set our country on a new path of unity, trust and better understanding,” he said.

    “We have a country with less ethnicism, less religiousity and we can build a country we all will want to live in.

    “I often wonder that if I get called by God, what I would say that I have bequeathed to Nigeria.

    “Here is the opportunity to bequeath to the generation coming after us a country on the path of unity, better understanding and love for one another,’’ he said.

     

  • IoD’s conference to focus on corporate governance

    IoD’s conference to focus on corporate governance

    This year’s Annual Directors’ Conference of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Nigeria will focus on corporate governance.

    The conference theme is: Implementing Best Corporate Governance Practice in Nigeria’s Public and Private Sectors. It is scheduled for November 30, 2017, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

    Chairman, Planning Committee of the Conference, Dr. Fred Odutola, made disclosed this yesterday when he led officials of the Institute on a courtesy visit to the corporate headquarters of Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation newspaper and SportingLife.

    Odutola, who said the team’s visit was aimed at intimating The Nation about the conference, noted that its theme underscored the Institute’s belief that if leaders and organisations had the best corporate governance practices, “The change we are all singing about will become a reality.”

    Odutola added that  IoD was concerned with the training and registering of directors, and organising short term courses for them, as well as ensuring that leaders and organisations adopt and enforce sound corporate governance practice. “If the leadership is right, the followership will be in tune,” he said.

  • Nigeria holds conference on GIPS standards

    Major stakeholders in the Nigerian investment market are expected to meet on Tuesday November 21, 2017 to discuss ways to entrench the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) in Nigeria as part of efforts to deepen the capital market and enhance investors’ returns.

    The GIPS standards are a set of global minimum requirements and recommendations for calculating and reporting investment performance. When voluntarily and fully complied with, investment managers’ performances are ascertained as plausible and fairly comparable across all regions.

    Nigeria, through its country sponsor, endorsed the GIPS standards in May 2015. The Nigerian country sponsor comprises of Fund Managers Association of Nigeria (FMAN), Pensions Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), The CFA Society Nigeria, and capital market and pension industry regulators.

    At the Nigeria Investment Performance Stakeholders Conference being hosted by King Thrones Limited, an investment advisory firm, the country sponsor and other major stakeholders in the Nigerian investment management industry will deliberate on ways to entrench a market approach to the adoption of the GIPS standards.

    Chief Relationship Officer, King Thrones Limited, Mr. Akin Adeniyi , said the conference is aimed at advancing the works of the country sponsor with a view to providing appropriate public information and guidance around the standards’ ideals as well as the framework for its market operations going forward.

    “The essentials of this gathering rest on the need first and foremost to sensitise all stakeholders in the market, starting with investors, to their advisers, investment managers, pension funds, insurers, mutual funds, trade groups, regulators, consultants, and a host of others, of the workings and benefits of these standards, and the general expectations in the adoption process by investment management firms,” Adeniyi said.

    He noted that the entrenchment of the GIPS standards in Nigeria will increase capital inflow into the Nigerian collective investment market as GIPS standards will create improved performance reporting modalities for the easy ascertainment and comparative analysis of factual historical records and reliable forecasting.

    At the conference, during which Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will present a keynote address, stakeholders will have the opportunity to interact and debate on relevant issues, with the primary objective of establishing a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of market operators in the journey to attaining compliance with the global investment performance reporting standards.

    Adeniyi outlined that GIPS standards will enhance the development of the Nigerian market by further promoting fair representation and full disclosures of facts behind every performance presentation, especially to prospective investors.

    “Potential and existing clients are assured that the information shown in a GIPS – compliant performance presentation reflects the results of the presenting firm’s past investment decisions – which is equally crucial in the investor’s final decision-making process. Investors are also assured that the returns are calculated and presented on a consistent basis and that they are objectively comparable for a given strategy to those reported by other firms claiming compliance with the standards,” Adeniyi said.

    Since their introduction in 1999, the GIPS standards have gathered momentum with investment management firms worldwide adopting these voluntary and ethical requirements for calculating and presenting historical investment performance. By the operations of both the GIPS Council and the Executive Committee, strong partnerships are formed with country sponsors to promote and educate the GIPS standards, and these have greatly contributed to their rapid global reach.

    With the endorsement of its country sponsor of the standards in August, 2017, Kazakhstan became the 41st and most recent country to join the growing list of countries embracing these ethical standards.  Nigeria and Denmark had become 30th and 31st respectively on the May 26, 2015.

  • TED Women Conference holds today

    About 100 leading Nigerian women will today gather at the Renaissance Hotel, Isaac John street, Ikeja, Lagos to commemorate this year’s TEDx women conference.

    The event is a global avenue for women to share ideas and discuss a wide-range of subjects to foster learning, inspiration and wonder, and also provoke conversations around this year’s theme of ‘Bridges.

    The group has adopted the theme, ‘Ýes, We can build Bridges’ this year. It is a full-day event being curated by Florence Olumodimu, its Nigerian Licensee & Organiser and will be holding simultaneously alongside other such programmes around the world.

    Talks and performances from the event will be uploaded and published in the global www.ted.com portal and the TEDx YouTube Channel.

    TED, founded in February 1984 as a conference, is a media organisation which posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan “ideas worth spreading”.

    Speakers at the event are: Cathey Armillas, Florence Atunwa Olumodimu; Sally Mbanefo; Nkiru Olumide-Ojo; Uri Ngozichukwuka; Morayo Afolabi-Brown; Toun Okewale Sonaiya; Toni Kan; Josephine Effah-Chukwuma; Tope Oshin; Ehikodi Gina Ojo; Oreoluwa Somolu-Lesi.