Professor Is-haq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, will be the chairman of the 2023 annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, GOCOP, on October 5.
Danlami Nmodu, chairman of 2023 conference planning committee, made this known in a statement on Thursday, September 21.
According to Nmodu, the conference will be held at the Abuja Continental Hotel (Old Sheraton) in the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday, October 5, by 10.00am prompt.
The theme for the 2023 conference is “Nigeria: Roadmap for Socio-Economic Recovery and Sustainability.”
Nmodu explained that the choice of the topic “is informed by current socio-political and economic realities facing Nigeria where a new set of leaders at national and state levels has emerged after the 2023 general elections.”
Oloyede, a Nigerian professor of Islamic Studies, who has helped to transform JAMB to perform optimally, was a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin.
Past Speakers at the Conference include Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, who delivered the 2019 lecture on “Economy, Security and National Development: The Way Forward”.
In 2021, Boss Mustapha, then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, keynoted the Conference in his capacity as Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. He spoke on: “Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria”.
Last year, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, delivered the address titled: “2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome.”
GOCOP was established to ensure that online publishers uphold the tenets of journalism in doing their jobs. Its membership is a constellation of editors and senior journalists who, having distinguished themselves in their various stations in the print and electronic media, ventured into online publishing which is both the present and future of journalism globally.
The Guild has over 90 corporate publishers as members.