- * Gets Supports From Elumelu Foundation, CBN, Globacom, Air Peace, Zenith, Access Banks, Others
By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance/Media Reporter)
The 17th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference scheduled for late October has received a strong boost by many corporate organizations and security agencies, including, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Globacom, Air Peace, Zenith Bank Plc, Access Bank Plc, Department of State Security (DSS) and others.
The editor's conference, which is the largest gathering of Nigerian editors and owners of mass media: newspapers, magazines, radio/television stations, and online newspapers in Nigeria, is scheduled to hold between October 21 and 22 at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja.
This year conference, which will focus on the current security challenges in Nigeria, with a theme “Media In Times Of Crisis: Resolving Conflict, Achieving Consensus”, is aimed at achieving consensus among media owners, managers, and senior editors on what role the media can play in helping to resolve the seemingly intractable conflict enveloping the nation today.
According to a statement by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, signed by the National President, Mustapha Isah, and Secretary-General, Iyobosa Uwugiaren, said the annual conference will also "attract our foreign partners: World Editors Forum (WEF), West African Editors Forum (WAEF), African Editors Forum (AEF), International Press Institute (IPI) and World Association of Newspapers (WAN).
‘’This year's annual conference will attract top security officers, governors, lawmakers, academics, chief executive officers in the private sector, members of the international community, leading non-governmental organizations and others’’, the statement said.
The editors also said the conference, which is designed to be ‘’intellectually engaging’’ – with several experienced resources persons, will also feature an executive session with state governors and security chiefs. ‘
‘’The executive session will provide a huge opportunity for governors and security chiefs to share with owners of newspapers, radio/television stations and editors, the challenges of managing insecurity in their states and the progress they have made so far’’, the statement added.
Over 500 editors and media owners - both within and outside the country, are expected at this year conference. NNL.
