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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu; Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, Senator Ned Nwoko; Khalifa Sanusi II and Rochas Okorocha, are billed to attend the Nkata Ndi Inyom igbo Foundation (NNIIF) summit.
Others are former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, Chairman, Nigerian Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa; former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku; former First Lady, Ekiti State, Adeleye-Fayemi; Dr. Stella Iwuagwu and May Ikokwu.
This was disclosed by the NNIF Nnedinso ogaziechi, at a press briefing yesterday in Abuja.
According to Ogaziechi, the event would afford women and other stakeholders to address the challenges faced by women and other national issues.
According to her, “we would be having our annual conference in Abuja on the 3rd of December 2024 at the Sandirilia Hotel.
“The theme of our conference is, “Driving Transformation through Value Re-orientation, Inclusive Leadership and Sustainability.”
“We must appreciate the great partnership our organization has shared with the great Nigerian media since our organization was birthed in 2020 while the world was battling the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Nkata in Igbo means conversation and we all know the value of conversation in fostering unity, arbitration, interventions and all forms of inter personal relationships from family to even global levels of bilateral and multilateral communications.
“For instance, the United Nations is the apex global conversation platform.
“The Founder and President General of the group is Iyom Josephine Anenih mni, a renowned social and gender advocate who was a former minister of women affairs and woman leader.
“The group’s motto is “Partnering for Development” seeing that both genders can actually work together for development.
“As the African proverb goes, “no one can clap with one hand”. It is with a view to the complimentary roles of both men and women that the idea of an urgent need for nkata (conversation) was birthed to address pressing regional and national issues.
“We have had two conferences before this year, one hosted in Lagos and the 2023 conference hosted by Enugu state government. This year’s conference was deliberately set for the nation’s capital Abuja for us to bring the conversation to a national platform.
“To us, the urgent need to have nkata around the loss of our shared values and what remedies we can adopt to foster unity and development.
“The Conference will be chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt.Hon. Benjamin Kalu, His Royal Highness, Khalifa Sanusi II, (Sarkin Kano) will be the Father of the Day, Dame Timi Agary will be Mother of the day. We have an array of speakers;
“Senator Prince Ned Munir Nwoko, H.E Dave Umahi, H.E Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Osita Chidoka, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, H.E Labaran Maku, Dr. Stella Iwuagwu, H.E Erelu Olabisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Dame May Ikokwu and a host of other speakers who are passionate about the need for a national introspection.
“We aimmensley appreciate the tremendous support we have received from the Nigerian media who are great partners in progress. We believe that the country direly needs series of conversations for the exchange of ideas, more national bonding and functional productivity dialogue that can aid development.
“We believe that we as women are imbued with the qualities that can drive development. We have both the drive and natural instincts to seek and create solutions to problems without recourse to wars and conflicts.”
