The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila and the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will speak at a symposium organised to mark the 112th anniversary of Kings’ College, Lagos on September 18, 2021.
While Gbajabiamila is expected to grace the occasion as the keynote speaker; Okonjo-Iweala would be the guest speaker at the symposium, themed: “Unity in Diversity – Stronger Together”.
The King’s College Old Boys Association (KCOBA), on Saturday, disclosed the lined up events to mark the annual Kingsweek celebration.
Chairman of the organising committee for Kingsweek 2021, Mr Chuma Anosike, said a former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi; the Secretary of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed and the former Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse, would attend the symposium as panellists.
He said the theme for this year’s celebration was informed by the current realities facing Nigeria, which, according to him, is a source of grave concern to the College’s old boys.
“The country is stronger together. Our diversity should be our strength,” he emphasized.
The Association would hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on September 19, 2021, where new officers would be elected.
Other activities lined up for the event are the Juma’at service to hold on Friday, September 17, 2021, at King’s College Mosque, TBS while the Church Service would hold on Sunday, September 19, 2021, at the Trinity House, Water Corporation Drive, Victoria Island in Lagos.
Anosike disclosed that one of the association’s top priorities for the year is the engagement of the federal government on an improved management structure for the College.
He added that deliberations have been holding on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as an elixir for funding education.
He also disclosed that the association had set up two endowment funds, namely; the Floreat Fund and the KC Education Trust, both of which are poised to ensure a proper and sustainable funding structure for the college, under the proposed arrangement.
“Education is inevitably the sine qua non for national development and we must take deliberate steps towards developing our nation,” he said.
King’s College, Lagos was founded on September 20, 1909, with ten students on its original site at Lagos Island, adjacent to Tafawa Balewa Square.
