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By Chidiebere Onyemaizu
Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Jimoh Ibrahim, will deliver a keynote address at Harvard University, barely days after assuming office at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Ibrahim, who recently resumed as Nigeria’s ambassador and permanent representative to the world body received the invitation from the University which is also his alma mater.
While accepting the invitation, he said the engagement reflects growing global interest in Nigeria’s reforms agenda.
He noted that the forum would provide an opportunity to present key aspects of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope strategy, particularly its focus on sustainable development, institutional reforms and long term economic transformation.
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The keynote will be delivered at the 10th anniversary conference of the Ife Institute of Advanced Studies on June 4, at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.
The conference, themed, “Building Lasting Institutions: Faith, Scholarship and the African Project,” is expected to bring together scholars and policymakers to examine Africa’s institutional challenges and development prospects.
The Chairman of Harvard’s Department of African and African-American Studies, Professor Jacob Kehinde Olupona, said the conference would address reasons Africa produces exceptional individuals without building enduring institutions.
Olupona noted that the institute had trained over 850 scholars in the past decade, many of whom are contributing to academia and public service across Africa and beyond.
He added that Ibrahim’s keynote, titled, “The Nigerian Project Revisited: Crisis, Continuity and Possibility,” would set the tone for discussions on governance, institutional gaps and development pathways.
