The Bullion Lecture, a platform conceptualised by Centre for Financial Journalism (CFJ Nigeria)

for lively discourse on national and international issues, holds 11am on Tuesday, April 11, 2017

at The Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Road, Victoria Island, Lagos. The lecture which will

be held every year is the flagship programme of CFJ Nigeria, and it will always be delivered by

first-rate academics and professionals.

The Bullion Lecture 2017 will be delivered by a renowned Economist, Professor Olu Ajakaiye,

Executive Chairman of African Centre for Shared Capacity Development Building

and   former   Director   General   of   the   Nigerian   Institute   for   Social   and   Economic   Research

(NISER). It is entitled Financing Nigeria’s Economic Recovery and Growth.

Mr. Kyari Bukar, Chairman of Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and immediate past

Chief Executive of Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS), will chair the lecture, while the

Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, will be the special guest of

honour.

Prof. Ajakaiye’s lecture  will be discussed by Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, a consummate Financial

Journalist   and   former  Acting   Managing   Director   of   Niger   Delta   Development   Commission

(NDDC), and Dr. Biodun Adedipe, Chief Consultant of B. Adedipe Associates.

CFJ Nigeria was established to provide specialised training programmes in financial journalism

with a view  to addressing the knowledge and skills gap in the practice of the trade, and to

conduct research on financial journalism, business, the economy, development and banking and

finance.

The activities of CFJ Nigeria were flagged off on March 17, 2016 with an inaugural lecture

delivered   by   Professor  Akpan   Hogan   Ekpo,   Director   General   of  West  African   Institute   for

Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) and former Vice Chancellor of University of

Uyo. The lecture was dedicated to one of the world’s greatest Revolutionary Marxist Scholars,

late Professor Eskor Toyo, who was once the academic adviser to Mr. Ray Echebiri, founder and

chief executive of Centre for Financial Journalism.

CFJ Nigeria is governed at the board level by eminent Nigerians, with Ernest Ebi, former deputy

governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as chairman. The faculty is populated by some of the

best   brains   in   Journalism   and   Communication,   Finance   and   Banking,   Economics,   Law,

Development and Politics, who bring their expertise and wealth of experience to bear on the

offerings of the Centre.