THISNIGERIA, a print and online newspaper, is set to hold the second edition of its yearly Lecture & Gold Prize Award with the theme: “25 Years of Nigeria’s Unbroken Democracy – Prospects and Possibilities.”

  The event, which is scheduled to take place at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, on June 27, at 10.00a.m., will be chaired by former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd). Speakers at the event include Prof. Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Prof. Okey Ikechukwu, Senator Shehu Sani and Prof. Abiodun Adeniyi.

   Meanwhile, this year’s edition “aims to celebrate and critically examine Nigeria’s quarter-century of uninterrupted democratic governance, as well as discussing its prospects and possibilities.”

   A statement by the publisher of THISNIGERIA, Eric Osagie, stated: “The Gold Prize Award will be presented to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the nation’s democratic development. Our 2024 awardees are persons who made the critical difference in the discharge of their duties, with uncommon zeal and commitment to the common good of the citizens and the country.

  “Set to receive the prestigious THISNIGERIA Gold Prize for his “Infrastructural Revolution and Exceptional Leadership” is the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike. Apart from Wike, other winners of the Gold Prize awards are Governor Kabir Abba Yusuf of Kano State and Governor Umo Bassey Eno of Akwa Ibom State.

   “While Yusuf will go home with the Courage in Leadership award, Eno clinches the award for Peace Building and Innovative Leadership. Special Investigator of CBN, Jim Osayande Obazee, and other Government Business Entities, will receive the prize in the Public Service category, while veteran labour leader and Director-General of the Michael Imoudu Institute of Labour Studies, Issa Aremu, will receive the Public Service Award.”