Shettima to lead eminent guests to IPI Nigeria’s 2025 conference

Vice-President Kashim Shettima is billed to lead a distinguished array of dignitaries to this year’s International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM).

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the organisers said the 2025 Annual Conference and AGM would hold from Dec. 2 to 3 at the NICON Luxury Hotel, Central Business District, Abuja.

According to the statement, this underscores the significance of the organisation’s flagship event.

Among the high-profile guests expected are the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi, Professor of Mass Communication and Registrar of Baze University, Abiodun Adeniyi.

Other guests include: former Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, former spokesperson to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, and a former State Chief of Protocol to Buhari, Amb. Lawal Kazaure.

Several other eminent personalities and senior media leaders, including the Executive Director of IPI Global, Scott Grifen; and former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, are also billed to attend.
Presidents of major media associations have similarly been invited to the event.

They include the President of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Maiden Alex-Ibru; the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Eze Anaba; the President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Danlami Nmodu and the President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Alhassan Abdul.

Heads of agencies under the Ministry of Information and National Orientation would also be present.

These include: the Directors General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lanre Issa-Onilu; Voice of Nigeria (VON), Jubrin Baba Ndace; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Mohammed Bulama; Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Salihu Dembos; as well as the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ali M. Ali.
Other notable attendees included a former Director of Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Haruna Imrana; former Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Gbemiga Ogunleye and IPI Global Board Member, Raheem Adedoyin.

Others included: Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Bayero University, Kano, Sule Yau Sule; and the Publisher of PRNigeria, Yushau Shuaib.

Vice President Shettima would chair the conference, while Minister Idris would deliver a special remark.

Griffen, on his part, will present a message of solidarity from the IPI headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

The unveiling of IPI Nigeria’s Book of Infamy would be performed by Prof. Adeniyi, while the President of IPI Nigeria, Musikilu Mojeed, would coordinate a Surprise Honorary Event.