Maduako Igbokwe I Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
AWKA, Nigeria – Former President of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda will on Thursday deliver 12th Zik annual Lecture Series titled “reclaiming Zik’s world: climate justice and Africa’s sustainable development” at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State.
The event is expected to be chaired by the Governor of Oyo State, Dr. Seyi Makinde While Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo will be the Chief Guest of Honour.
The presidential candidate of Labour LP at the 2023 general election and the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi will serve as the distinguished Guest of Honour.
According to a statement by the Chairman of the Zik Lecture Series planning committee, Prof. Uche Ebeze, the programme is being organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University .
According to him,the programme will held at the institution’s Academic staff Union of universities (ASUU) Secretariat.
The Benefactor of Zik Lecture Series, Senator High Chief Dr. Ben Ndi Obi will also be on ground as well as the wife of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Prof. Uche Azikiwe.
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Other dignitaries to grace the occasion are the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe and Eze Uzu Awka, Obi Gibson Nwosu as the Royal Fathers of the day, with the Adviser, Zik Lecture Series, Prof. Nkemdili Au Nonyelu.
Meanwhile, the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, UNIZIK, Prof. Frank-Collins Okafor is the event Host, while the Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Prof. Charles Okechukwu Esimone, is the Chief Host.
Guests are expected to be seated by 9.00am at the ASUU Secretariat of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka to relish the intellectual harvest of Zik’s ideologies.
Recall that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onitsha and Zik of Africa pioneered the struggle for Nigeria’s independence and eventually became the first President of Nigeria.
