8th Wole Soyinka media lecture holds July 13

The 8th edition of the Wole Soyinka media lecture series holds on Wednesday, July 13 by 10 am at the main hall of NECA House, Hakeem Balogun Street, off Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.

This year’s lecture will focus on the theme, “Tax Education, National Development and the Role of the Media”. Adebimpe Balogun, the first female President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), will deliver the lecture commemorating the 82nd birthday of Wole Soyinka. Discussing alongside Balogun will be, Auwal Musa (Rafsanjani), Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Modupe Oyekunle, President of NECA’s Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), Simon Kolawole, Publisher of The Cable Newspaper, Emuesiri Agbeyi, Tax Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deremi Atanda, Executive Director of Systemspecs.

Opeyemi Agbaje, Managing Director of Resources and Trust Company will moderate the event. Tunde Fowler, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has also confirmed the agency’s participation.