US-based Don to Spearhead Pinnacle Academy’s Lecture

Mary Nnah

A United States of America-based Nigerian and Professor of Economics and Management, Sesan Sokoya, will on July 26 lead discussants at a lecture being organised by Pinnacle Leadership and Entrepreneurial Academy.

The lecture titled ‘Sustainable National Development in Globalised Economy’, will be held in commemoration of the 60th birthday anniversary of Pastor Gbola Sokoya, a chartered accountant and Chairman of Pinnacle Leadership Academy, at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Professor Sokoya, a lecturer in the US with a wealth of experience in the academia has been teaching management for almost 25 years. He has done extensive work in both China and Finland, thought to probably be among the most vibrant economies in the world today. It is believed that with the amount of research works he has done in these major economies of the world, he would be contributing a great deal from his wealth of experience to move the Nigeria’s economy forward.

Apart from Sokoya, the lecture’s discussion panel will parade high profile individuals who are accomplished in their various fields of endeavours. The panel will be made up of five discussants and a moderator to take care of the post lecture discussion in the Nigerian perspective. They include former Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank and Managing Director, Benin Electricity Distribution Plc, Mrs. Funke Osibodu; Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze and representing the government players would be the Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye.

In an interview with THISDAY on the forthcoming lecture to be held in his honour, Pastor Sokoya, a pastor with the Redeemed Christians Church of God (RCCG), Faith City and a former banker with Union Bank of Nigeria, said, “I am clocking 60 years on July 25 and I intend to have a thanksgiving service on that day. Usually, you would have people say that after the thanksgiving service, we would go throw a big party but I have decided not to have a party. I want to contribute something to what I call the greater Nigeria project, and so the idea of a public lecture came up.

L-R: An English teacher at ChristHill College, Lagos, Mr. Maxwell Ewedoma, Head boy, Master Daniel Adekunle, Director of the School, Mrs. Omotunde Lawson, Head girl , Miss Emmanuella Osuofia and the Principal, Mr. Edosa Omoregie during the college’s...