THE MANAGEMENT of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced that Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, and former Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will deliver the Realnews 12th Anniversary Lecture.
A statement by Maureen Chigbo, Publisher/Editor of Realnews Magazine Online, stated that Prof Gambari’s lecture will be on the theme: “Africa in World’s Shifting Geopolitics, Matters Arising on Democracy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Resources.”
Chigbo, who is also the president of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), said Gambari’s acceptance to deliver the lecture, scheduled to hold at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, has been communicated to Realnews.
Gambari, a Nigerian academic and diplomat, served as Chief of Staff President Buhari from 2020 to 2023.
Before this, Prof. Gambari was the longest-serving permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations from 1990 to 1999, under five heads of state and presidents, and minister of external affairs from 1984 to 1985.
While at the UN, Gambari was the President of UNICEF in 1999; and became Under-Secretary-General and the first Special Adviser on Africa to Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 1999 to 2005.
He was the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2007 under Secretary-Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon.
His last appointment in the UN was from January 2010 to July 2012, when he was appointed by Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission as the Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur.
The lecture will be chaired by Ms. Beatrice Eyong, UN Women’s Country Representative in Nigeria, who will also moderate the panel session.
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