GOCOP announces date for 2022 annual conference

The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced October 6 as the date for the 2022 conference to be held in Lagos at Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja.

The theme for the conference is ‘2023 Elections: Man­aging the Process for Credible Outcome’ and it will feature prominent stakeholders in the polity, civil society organizations, security, judiciary and media, among others.

This year’s conference which will be holding barely five months to the 2023 gener­al elections and one week into the official commencement of campaigns by political par­ties will provide a roadmap for political actors and the various publics on the need to play by the rules and con­form to acceptable electoral behaviour, a statement by Mr. Olumide Iyanda, secretary of the Conference Planning Committee said.

This year’s conference which will be heralded by a business luncheon with GO­COP partners on Wednesday, October 5, at the same venue, is the 6th in the series.

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Speakers at previous con­ferences include Rev. Mat­thew Hassan Kukah, the Bish­op of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto who delivered the 2019 lecture on ‘Economy, Security and National Development: The Way Forward’. In 2021, Mr. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Fed­eration delivered keynotes of the conference in his capacity as chairman of the Presiden­tial Task Force on Covid-19. He spoke on ‘Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Re construction in Nigeria’.

Quoting the chairman of the Planning Committee, Mr. Ken Ugbechie, the statement said: “the choice of this year’s theme was informed by contemporary political, economic, security and socio-cultural challenges facing Nigeria ahead of a very critical general election.”

The conference will bring together many policy and decision makers from the private and public sectors as well as scholars, non-govern­mental organisations and the media, the statement said.