Daily Trust dialogue holds Thursday

The 16th edition of the Daily Trust dialogue will hold on Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 10am in Abuja.

The event, with the theme “Youth and Democracy: The Nigerian Challenge” would be held at the NAF Conference Centre and Suite, on Ahmadu Bello Way, Kado, Abuja.

The Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar III would serve as the special guest of honour, while Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), will chair the occasion.

Guest speakers at the dialogue are Senator Yusuf Datti BabaAhmed, former presidential aspirant; Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to the President on Social Protection Plan; and Mr Samson Itodo, Coordinator, Not Too Young to Run.

Attendance is free, organisers said.

Meanwhile, a day before the dialogue, the 11th Daily Trust African of the Year Award dinner will hold at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja by 7:30pm.

The event, strictly by invitation, is to honour five Kenyan schoolgirls who won the 2018 edition of the Daily Trust African of the Year. The teenagers, Stacy Owino, Purity Achieng, Ivy Akinyi, Synthia Otieno and Macrine Atieno – from the western Kenyan city of Kisumu – were selected out of several dozen nominees for developing a mobile application called “I-cut”. The application has become a very useful tool in the war against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

The girls were Africa’s only representatives at Google’s 2017 Technovation Challenge which took place in Silicon Valley, California, USA.

Daily Trust African of the Year Award, which attracts a prize sum of $25,000, was instituted by Media Trust Limited to celebrate ordinary Africans who are doing extraordinary things in their chosen fields of endeavour.

The works of such individuals are usually unique and have impact across their immediate environment and Africa as a whole.