2nd Anaedoonline Anniversary Lecture: Meet Our Speakers (Part 1)

Chief Innocent Chukwuma(Ifediaso Nnewi)

Chief Innocent Chukwuma (born 1961 in Nnewi, Anambra State) is a Nigerian business magnate and investor. He is the Chairman/CEO of Innoson Group. Chief Innocent Chukwuma was born into the family of Mr. Chukwuma Mojekwu. He is the youngest child in a family of six.
In 1981, after his education, ‘Young’ Innocent began trading in spare parts, a very lucrative business in South East Nigeria. He then founded the company Innoson Group with Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, Innoson Tech. & Industries Co. Ltd as its subsidiaries.

Impact on the anniversary lecture

Chief Innocent Chukwuma has been passionate about youth development, this is translated in his employment ratio across his factories which comprises of 80% youth. He seizes every opportunity to speak to youth to brace up and take over the economic and political sphere. This anniversary lecture provides him with a larger platform to empower a larger number of youth who are inclined in the entrepreneurial sector through sharing his success story.

Prof Kingsley Moghalu

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu (born 1963) is a Nigerian political economist, lawyer, former United Nations official, and professor of International Business and public policy at the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prof Kingsley is the founder of Sogato Strategies (LLC), and a senior adviser of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. In 2016, Moghalu founded the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation. He is the 2019 Young Progressive Party (YPP) presidential candidate for the 2019 presidential elections
Moghalu served as deputy governor of financial system stability and the director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from 2009 to 2014; he led the implementation of reforms to Nigeria’s failing banking sector. He is a member of the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation and non-executive director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria.

Anaedoonline 2nd Anniversary Lecture: The place of youths in Politics and Economy

Impact on the anniversary Lecture

As the founder of the Institute of governance and economic transformation, he is passionate about good governance, career development among others. At the lecture, he will speak on governance, accountability, career growth and the importance of the synergy to achieve a sustainable society.

Prof. Wole Soyinka

The grey-haired Nobel prize winner- Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first sub-Saharan African to be honored in that category.
He took an active role in Nigeria’s political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.

In Nigeria, Soyinka was a Professor of Comparative Literature (1975 to 1999) at Obafemi Awolowo University, then called the University of Ife. With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, he was made professor emeritus. While in the United States, he first taught at Cornell University as Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts from 1988 to 1991 and then at Emory University, wherein 1996 he was appointed Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts. Soyinka has been a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has served as scholar-in-residence at NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs and at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, US. He has also taught at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. Soyinka was also a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Duke University in 2008.
In December 2017, he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in the “Special Prize” category awarded to someone who has “contributed to the
realization of cultural events that promote understanding and the exchange of knowledge between peoples”.

Impact at the lecture

At a time when young persons do not believe in hard work and making an impact, where it is assumed that literary writers do not make progress.

At the anniversary he will lend his voice on the importance of youth’s involvement in the country’s politics and encourage literary writers to keep at their best.

You can register via https://www.anaedoonline.ng/rsvp to be a part of the life-changing experience.