Global Business, Government Leaders to Speak at Economist’s Nigeria Summit 2016

The events’ arm of the foremost International socio economics news magazine, The Economist Events has concluded plans to hold the 11th edition of the annual Nigeria Summit.

Slated for Monday, March 7 and Tuesday March 8, 2016 at the highbrow Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos, the 2016 Nigeria Summit will bring key government ministries officials, industry and business leaders as well as representatives of the Nigerian civil society; together with international investors, economists and academics to discuss and debate Nigeria’s economic direction.

Themed, The Dawn of A New Day, the summit will examine and review various opportunities and challenges that Nigeria is facing in view of her first democratic power transfer and the implication of the global macro-economic forces as being shaped by the ridiculously fallen global oil prices which is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.
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In view of this, The Economist Events has lined up an array of high networth personalities in government and commerce across the globe as speakers.

They include: President Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria; Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria; Mr. John Kerry, Secretary of State, United States of America; Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Group; Danladi Verheijen, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Verod; Herbert Wigwe, Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank, Nigeria; Okechukwu Enelamah, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria.
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Other speakers and panelists are Pratibha Thaker, Director, Country Analysis, The Economist Intelligence Unit; Bob Diamond, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Merchant Capital; Alhaji Kashim Shettina, Governor, Borno State, Nigeria; Franklin Cudjoe, Founding President and Chief Execuive Officer, IMANI; Philip Lindop, Head of Africa Investment Banking, Barclays Africa Group, Fola Laoye, Chairman, Hygeia Group.
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Others are Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al Makura, Governor, Nasarawa State, Nigeria; Chief Willie Obiano, Governor, Anambra State, Nigeria, Kwasi Boahene, Director, Advocacy and Resource Mobilisation, Pharm Access Group; Issam Darwish, Executive  Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, HIS; Adebola Williams, Co-Founder, RED among others are also billed to speak at the summit.

Now in its 11th year, the Nigeria Summit is part of the Economist’ successful high-growth markets series that has become one of the leading events in Africa where business, government and ideas people meet.
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‎Chaired by a senior Editor from The Economist, the summit will explore the economic and social progress made to date and take an in-depth look at what the future will hold for Africa’s biggest economy.
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“This year’s Nigeria Summit will bring together over 400 participants drawn from different walks of life including Nigeria’s public and private sectors, international business players and investors for a discussion on how Nigeria can turn its economic growth into social and political prosperity,” Daniel Franklin, executive director of The Economist disclosed.

Part of the conversation for this year will be on the positive change that has been witnessed in governance and in the socio-economic life of the people in the past nine months of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership.
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Discussion will also be on how economic growth can improve security; strategy for placing economic growth at the heart of Nigeria’s effort to unite the country; and; how Nigeria can achieve economic diversification away from oil, overcome challenges at plugging the holes in public finances (reduce official corruption), create jobs for its youth class, reducing poverty and improving purchasing power of the citizens.

Being at the heart of the continent’s economic renaissance, speakers will also be expected to review Nigeria‘s role on the African continent as well as on a global stage.

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