Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, will on November 19, 2024 deliver the 12th Anniversary Lecture of Realnews Magazine Online.
This was disclosed by the Management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, the publishers of Realnews Magazine Online.
According to a statement by the organisers of the event, Professor Gambari, a former Chief of Staff to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, will speak on the topic: “Africa in World Shifting Geopolitics, Matters Arising on Democracy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Resources,”
Ambassador Gambari’s acceptance to deliver the lecture, to be held at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, was communicated to Realnews in an email dated April 27, 2024.
He stated in the email: “I am delighted to re-confirm my acceptance in principle of the invitation to deliver the lecture.”
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Gambari, a Nigerian academic and diplomat, served as chief of staff to the President of Nigeria from 2020 to 2023.
Before this, he 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; became Under-Secretary-General and the first Special Adviser on Africa to the then 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 Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission as the Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur.
Born on 24 November, 1944 in Ilorin, Kwara State, Gambari attended King’s College, Lagos, going on to the London School of Economics, where he bagged a B. Sc. (Economics) degree (1968), specialising in International Relations.
Later he earned his M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees from Columbia University, New York, United States in Political Science and International Relations.
He taught at the City University of New York before working at the University of Albany and Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State.
From 1986 to 1989, he was a Visiting Professor at three universities in Washington, DC; Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Georgetown University; and Howard University.
He has also been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and a resident scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, the Rockefeller Foundation-run centre in Italy.
He has authored many books and published articles in reputable journals in foreign policy and international relations, including: “Theory and Reality in Foreign Policy: Nigeria after Second Republic.”
The diplomat was the Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985 under General Muhammadu Buhari’s military regime, after serving as the Director General of The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.
The lecture will be chaired by Beatrice Eyong, UN Women’s Country Representative in Nigeria, who will also moderate the panel session.
Realnews, a general interest magazine, is an online publication that thrives on investigative journalism.
According to the statement on Thursday: “We have expertise in reporting the oil and gas sector with its attendant environmental challenges.
“We aim to unearth exclusive stories about real people and the challenges they face in their day-to-day activities.
“We do this bearing in mind that government can only act to influence the lives of people positively if they are aware of their true situation.
“Hence, our objective is to use our investigative skills to ferret out information in the sectors we focus on and produce an unbiased report that will influence the government and decision-makers to take actions that will make society better.
Realnews is populated by seasoned journalists who believe strongly in the tenets and ethics of the profession.
“The online publication believes that journalism as the fourth Estate of the Realm can contribute its quota towards building a fair and just society where fundamental human rights are respected and citizens have the freedom to pursue their interests anywhere in the world without hindrance.
“Its editors have a combined experience of several decades in active journalism practice and are highly dedicated to serving humanity. Hence its motto: ‘For God and Humanity.’
“Realnews Anniversary Lecture Series was established to commemorate the best minds in our society and to tap from them to enrich the discourse in our national development.”
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