By Adeoluwa Bravo
The 12th edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series is set to hold as a webinar on Monday, 13 July 2020, from 10am to 12noon West Africa Time (WAT).
This was indicated in a release signed June 28th, by the WSCIJ Executive Director, Motunrayo Alaka.
The July 13th lecture will be commemorating the 86th birthday of Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature – Wole Soyinka.
The event which will be held virtually for the first time, will discuss the theme- Data, media and national development.
Guest speakers expected include: The Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics – Yemi Kale; Editor-in-Chief, Daily Trust Newspaper- Mannir Dan-Ali, and Seun Onigbinde who is the Co-Founder and Director, BudgIT Foundation, among others.
According to Alaka, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism has carefully chosen the theme and panellists to highlight the role of data for policy making, improving citizen’s welfare and ensuring sustainable development considering current challenging economic realities exacerbated by the novel Corona Virus pandemic.
“To ensure responsible health and safety rules of covid19, we will host the 2020 lecture as a webinar. It is open to everyone including persons from the media, government, pressure groups, policy makers, private sector, students, non-governmental organisations and the diplomatic corps” Alaka said.
The center has created an access link www.wscij.org/12wsclecture for participants to register for the said event.
