By Precious Obongawan
The 8th
Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series is planned to hold Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Lagos,
south-west Nigeria.
A press statement issued Thursday by Motunrayo Alaka; coordinator of the centre says the lecture with the theme: “Tax education, national development and
the seminal role of the media” is billed to hold at NECA Building, A2, Hakeem
Balogun Street, off Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, beginning
from 10 a.m.
The
lecture will be delivered by Mrs Adebimpe Balogun, the first female president
of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), alongside other
discussants from various sectors critical to the theme.
Alaka is quoted as saying
that the Centre chose the theme of this year’s lecture to contribute a
veritable opportunity to raise critical questions and national debate on issues
surrounding taxation in the country; ranging from the importance of taxation to
development, evaluating the compliance rate, the lack of trust for wise use of funds
generated by the government, the level of reportage of the issue in the media,
among others.
According to her, the lecture
series which first hosted in 2008 is designed to periodically examine varying
topical issues that have a reverberating effect on the perceived performance of
the media, on the health of our country, Nigeria, and its democracy.
It is usually a
well-attended programme with a good spread of media professionals, civil
society organisations, students, and government officials, leaders of
industries and members of the diplomatic corps, she said.
Other personalities that
have featured at the event in the past are: Prof. Harry Garuba of the African
Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Dr. Olatunji Dare, an Associate Professor of Journalism at Bradley
University, Peoria Illinois USA and a former editorial page editor of The
Guardian Newspaper; Prof Bayo Olukoshi
of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (UNIDEP); Prof Biodun Jeyifo of Harvard
University; Prof Abiola Irele, doyen
of African literature; and Mallam Nasir
El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, as guest speakers.
Alaka further explained that the tradition of holding the event on July
13, which this year is Professor Soyinka’s 82nd birthday, started in 2009 in
our bid to honour this illustrious global citizen even as we draw attention to
current national issues.
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