{"id":11414,"date":"2019-11-04T00:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2019-11-04T00:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:16:56","slug":"nigerian-politician-peter-obi-headlines-news-express-anniversary-7th-lecture-keynote-speakers-eminent-lawyer-ebun-olu-adegboruwa-legal-cum-development-expert-barrister-bashir-maidugu-confirm-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/nigerian-politician-peter-obi-headlines-news-express-anniversary-7th-lecture-keynote-speakers-eminent-lawyer-ebun-olu-adegboruwa-legal-cum-development-expert-barrister-bashir-maidugu-confirm-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Politician, PETER OBI headlines News Express Anniversary 7th Lecture&#8230; keynote speakers\/ eminent Lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Legal cum Development Expert, Barrister Bashir Maidugu confirm attendance, ceremony holds Thursday, November 14, 2019 at the Main Hall of Sheraton Hotel &#038; Towers, Ikeja, Lagos * \u201cWe are grateful to these distinguished men of ideas for accepting to dissect Nigeria\u2019s economic cum developmental challenges and propose the way out, during the 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture\u201d- News Express Publisher Isaac Umunna  BY CHINEDU AMAECHI\/STAFF WRITER, ABUJA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/isaac-umunna-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5926\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nigerian\nPolitician, PETER OBI headlines News Express Anniversary 7th\nLecture&#8230; keynote\nspeakers\/ eminent\nLawyer Ebun-Olu\nAdegboruwa, Legal cum Development Expert, Barrister Bashir Maidugu\nconfirm attendance, ceremony holds Thursday, November 14, 2019 at the\nMain Hall of Sheraton Hotel &amp; Towers, Ikeja, Lagos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>*\n\u201cWe are grateful to these distinguished men of ideas for accepting\nto dissect Nigeria\u2019s economic cum developmental challenges and\npropose the way out, during the 7th News Express Anniversary\nLecture\u201d- News Express Publisher Isaac Umunna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<strong>BY CHINEDU\nAMAECHI\/STAFF WRITER, ABUJA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<strong>RIDING ON THE\nANNUAL SUCCESS OF ITS ONLINE PUBLICATION IN NIGERIA, ISAAC UMUNNA, AN\nAWARD-WINING PUBLISHER of News Express publication has rolled out the\nred carpet in celebration of the media outfit&#8217;s 7 year Anniversary of\ninforming, educating and entertaining Nigerians from various aspects\nof life. The event holds on Thursday, November 14,\n2019 at the Main Hall of Sheraton Hotel &amp; Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In\na Press release issued by Umunna, he stated that the former Governor\nof Anambra State and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples\nDemocratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 polls, Mr. Peter Obi, will\nheadline the 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>His\nwords: \u201cWe are pleased to announce\nHis Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi, as the Special Guest of Honour and\nGuest Speaker at the 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture holding on\nThursday, November 14, 2019 at the Main Hall of Sheraton Hotel &amp;\nTowers, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>A\nman of great ideas and a globally sought-after speaker, Mr. Obi will\nlead the array of experts who will tackle the Lecture theme, \u201cGetting\nNigeria Out of the Woods \u2013 A New Thinking\u201d, from various\nperspectives.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This\nsoft-spoken publisher announced the keynote speakers to include\neminent Lawyer and celebrated Activist, Ebun-Olu\nAdegboruwa, SAN; and Legal cum Development Expert, Barrister Bashir\nMaidugu, a former National Legal Adviser of PDP.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In\nhis further appreciation, he said: \u201cWe\nare grateful to these distinguished men of ideas for accepting to\ndissect Nigeria\u2019s economic cum developmental challenges and propose\nthe way out, during the 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>As\nwas the case with previous years\u2019 editions, the 7th News Express\nAnniversary Lecture will attract top government functionaries,\nindustry and religious leaders, professional groups and diverse\nsectorial leaders, among others. It is a spectacular programme that\ncommands public attention with organisers creating hype pre-event,\nduring and post events both in the traditional and new media. It will\nalso be streamed live to a global audience and broadcast on News\nExpress Digital TV.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The\nstatement identified past speakers at the News Express Anniversary\nLecture to include Special Adviser To The President On Media and\nPublicity, Mr. Femi Adesina; Governor Sani Bello of Niger State,\nNigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director Hadiza Bala Usman;\nand \u2018Africa\u2019s Bill Gates\u2019, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, Chairman of Zinox\nTechnologies Ltd and Konga.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>News\nExpress<\/em>, which debuted on August 29,\n2012, is one of Nigeria\u2019s most popular and influential online\ndailies. It is read by hundreds of thousands of people around the\nworld and records annual traffic of upwards of 100 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Politician, PETER OBI headlines News Express Anniversary 7th Lecture&#8230; keynote speakers\/ eminent Lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Legal cum Development Expert, Barrister Bashir Maidugu confirm attendance, ceremony holds Thursday, November 14, 2019 at the Main Hall of Sheraton Hotel &amp; Towers, Ikeja, Lagos * \u201cWe are grateful to these distinguished men of ideas for accepting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}