Vice chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Banku Obi, is to deliver the 2024 edition of The Bullion Lecture.
The lecture, scheduled for 10 am on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos has the theme “Human Capital Development as Catalyst for Nigeria‘s Prosperity.”
A press statement by the founder/chief executive officer of the Centre for Financial Journalism, Dr Ray Echebiri, the organisers of The Bullion Lecture, expressed excitement for having Professor Obi deliver the lecture.
The lecture will be chaired by the president/vice chancellor of Babcock University, Professor Ademola S. Tayo, while distinguished panelists that will dissect the lecture are Mrs Kanyinsola Mba, Head of Human
Capital Management, Oando Energy Resources Limited and Mr Tim Akano, founder/chief executive of New Horizons Nigeria.
Obi is a high-ranking professor of 15 years with over 60 publications to her credit in both local and international peer-reviewed journals of high repute.
She has supervised over 30 postgraduate diploma projects, 14 master‘s degree thesis and nine PhD dissertations, and has so far assessed 16 persons for professorial positions.
She has been in academia for more than three decades, and has been an external examiner, assessor and visiting professor to several universities within and beyond the shores of Nigeria.
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