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 PLEASE JOIN US AT THIS UPCOMING NIDO-A CANADA EVENT!
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WE WELCOME OUR GUEST SPEAKERS TO THE NIGERIA-CANADA CONFERENCE 2008 |
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Sen. Muhammed Sanusi Daggash
Minister/Deputy Chairman of National Planning
http://sanusidaggash.org/brief.php
Until his recent appointment as the Honourable Minister National Planning and Deputy Chairman of National Planning Commission;
He was a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, representing Borno North Senatorial District from 2003 -2007. He served in not less than ten (10) Senate Committees within the period.
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Senator Consiglio Di Nino
As a Senator, He represents the interests of the residents of a dynamic and diverse province of Ontario, Canada. Some of the issues of interest and importance to him, include electoral financing reform and human rights violations [in China].
Current Member of the following Senate committee(s):
Foreign Affairs and International Trade {Chair}
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
National Finance
Personal Website: http://sen.parl.gc.ca/senatorcon
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Elder Godsday Peter Orubebe,
Minister of Special Duties
Federal Government of Nigeria;
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Ambassador Joe Keshi
Perm Secretary/Chairman of NNVS
Nigerian National Volunteer Service (NNVS)
Office of the SGF,
Federal Secretariat Abuja, FCT Nigeria
The Nigerian National Volunteer Service (NNVS), Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation was established to initiate and coordinate among others the Federal government’s policy of engaging and encouraging the involvement of the Nigerian Diaspora in the development process at home. NNVS is therefore expected to liaise and work with Nigerians in the Diaspora, especially NIDO and professional groups to facilitate their large scale involvement in developments at home. http://www.fmst-nnvs.com/ for more
information.
For the first time in Canada, Ambassador Joe Keshi beside being one of the Keynote Speakers, will be able to answer most of the questions regarding Nigeria and the Diaspora relationship.
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Professor Robert Boroffice
Director-General of the National Space Research
and Development Agency (NASRDA) for Nigeria
He believes technology can lift Nigeria out of poverty by acting as a catalyst for socioeconomic transformation. Nigeria’s ambitious space program has attracted criticism and created controversy since its inception. Robert Boroffice, director-general of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) for Nigeria, will address a wide range of issues, including claims that money is better spent addressing poverty. A former biology teacher, Robert has spoken at United Nations events, and he enabled a 17-year-old girl to become the first African in space. Under his guidance, Nigeria
has become only the second country in sub-Saharan Africa to launch its own satellites, which are essential in providing observation and communications for the remote villages of several African regions. Robert is fully invested in his new line of work. “I’m very passionate about space technology,” he says. “I see what it has done in India, and I want to do the same in Nigeria.”
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Dr. Benedicta Egbo
Associate Professor of education
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Educated both in Nigeria and Canada, Dr. Egbo has a passion for education as one of the catalysts for sustainable social and economic development. She has published widely in the area of education and development/social progress, and empowerment, with special reference to Nigeria, Africa, Canada and North America more generally. Her new book, Teaching for Diversity in Canadian Schools (Pearson Education Canada, 2009) discusses important policy and practical strategies for empowering and increasing the educational success of Canadian students especially those who come from minority
backgrounds such as Black and immigrant Canadian children. Dr. Egbo will be speaking on the general topic of the link between eclectic and context-specific education and socio-economic development with special focus on Nigeria.
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Steve Jaltema
Senior Development Officer
Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA)
Nigeria Program.
Steve specializes in health projects. His previous CIDA post was in CIDA's Office for Democratic Governance where he worked on developing policy for Canada's international aid in electoral assistance, parliamentary strengthening, and political party support. Notably, his duties included
monitoring democratic progress and electoral readiness in various countries and the deployment of election observers. He has lived and worked in Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and traveled extensively in the Caribbean on
short-term assignments for the United Nations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and in the private sector prior to joining CIDA. He is passionate about development and sees the role of international donors as
one in partnership with developing countries.
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Dr. Jude O. Igwemezie, Ph.D., P.Eng.
President
Applied Rail Research Technologies (ARRT Inc.)
He is an expert in structural mechanics, stress and failure analyses, design, testing and assessment of railway engineering structures and derailment investigations. Since 1988, he has authored or co-authored 90 articles, reports and publications on railway track and vehicle systems. Dr. Igwemezie has made significant contributions to the rail industry. He was the first to develop a methodology for setting railhead wear limits. He received the “Harry Jerome Award” for Professional Excellence from the Black Business & Professional Association of Canada and he is very active in the American Railway
Engineering and Maintenance Association (AREMA) as the current Chairman of Sub-Committee-2 (Rail Rolling Specifications) of Committee-4 of AREMA.
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Rebecca Gray
Director of Development, Leadership Initiatives
www.LIchange.org
Ms. Gray serves as liaison to NIDO for Leadership Initiatives, a US-based nonprofit currently operating exclusively in Nigeria. Leadership Initiatives addresses the problems of underdevelopment through youth leadership training. We cultivate the next generation of leaders in Nigeria by helping university students design and implement
sustainable, locally funded solutions to community problems. In the short term, our students create solutions to local problems using existing community resources. In the long term, we create an honest, transparent generation of leaders who will empower all Nigerians.
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Note;
We will add the Names of other Speakers
as soon as they are Confirmed
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If you will like to present a white-paper, please send your synopsis to conference@NIDOCanada.org before March 15th. 2008. No paper will be considered after closing date. We thank everyone for your submission but only the once appropriate for this year will be considered. All others will be defer to future years. |
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