PDP-Governed States Host IGR Summit......Dr Peter Obi To Deliver Key Note Speech On The Imperatives of Developing IGR Options for State Governments in a Recessed Economy
PDP-Governed States Host
IGR Summit......Dr Peter Obi To Deliver
Key Note Speech On The Imperatives of Developing IGR Options for State Governments
in a Recessed Economy
By Donald Sylva
The PDP Governors Forum will be hosting the 2019 Edition of the
an IGR summit in Abuja.
In a statement
released by the Summit Organizing Committee and signed by Mr. Patrick PA Okon,
the event which is facilitated by the PDP Governors Forum is managed by Messrs
Red Sapphire Nigeria Limited, an integrated marketing communications company
that provides Public Relations, Event Management & Marketing, and
Advertising Services, in conjunction with the Producers of high-profile Finance
programme, “Money Line on AIT”, will feature the Finance expert, Nancy Iloh as
Summit Anchor.
The summit is
scheduled to hold on Wednesday/Thursday, Oct. 30-31, 2019 at the BON Hotel
Stratton, (formerly Protea Hotel),Asokoro, Abuja.
The Summit will
feature Key Resource persons and Finance Experts with tested knowledge and
transfer experience drawn from the IGR/Finance Sector. They will deliver
thought–provoking papers and case studies to address as well as proffer
enduring and sustainable solutions; aside crafting fresh ideas for the
development, generation and effective application of digital formats to improve
internally-generated revenue (IGR) strategies and platforms in the states and
local government areas (LGAs) in a Recessed Economy.
The expected
participants are - State Commissioners of Finance, Trade/Investments, Budget/Economic
Planning, Tourism and Local Governments/Chieftaincy Affairs;
National/State
Assembly Committee Chairmen on Local Governments whose input will generally
provide statutory and parliamentary backing for the major determinants and
considerations on IGR Resources; SSAs on Trade/Investments, Economy, Finance
and Revenue Generation; LGA Chairmen/ Secretaries, as well as Heads of State
Boards of Internally-Generated Revenue and Senior Executives engaged in the
Development and Management of Rural Economy amongst others.
The
high-profile summit will feature the Governor of Bayelsa State and Chairman of
PDP Governors Forum Hon Henry Seriake Dickson as the Chief Host of the summit,
the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus is the Special Guest of
Honour while the former Governor of Anambra State and former Vice Presidential
candidate of the PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, as chairman of the summit,will deliver the
keynote address on the theme Titled “The Imperatives of Developing
Internally-Generated Revenue Options for State
Governments in a Recessed
Economy” while several other speakers, faculty members and renowned IGR/Finance
Experts and Consultants drawn from related agencies have been pencilled down
for the different sessions.
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