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Ex-NERC boss Sam Amadi to deliver 6th JFCN annual lecture

A former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi, will deliver the 6th annual lecture of Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) slated for November 5, 2024, in Abuja.

The JFCN President, Fred Ohwahwa, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, October 15.

Ohwahwa stated that Amadi, who is the Guest Speaker at the event, will speak on the topic titled, “High Cost of Governance as an Impediment to Development”.

Ohwahwa added that the Chairman of the 6th JFCN Annual Lecture is a former Executive Director (Programmes) of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and former Director General of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Olorogun Peter Igho.

The panellists include an associate professor and a petroleum economist at Nile University in Abuja, Dr Ahmed Adamu; an adjunct Senior Lecturer of Mass Communications at Bingham University in Keffi, Dr Felix Oisamoje; and Maxwell Kadiri of Open Society Justice Initiative.

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Ohwahwa stated: “JFCN is a socio-cultural organisation that fosters and encourages the spirit of oneness, companionship and comradeship amongst members and between the club and other friendly associations.

“The club is also involved in recreation, sports and engages in acts of philanthropy in favour of the needy members of the society at large. Its members are professionals in engineering, communication, accounting, business, legal and other sectors of the economy.”

Amadi is currently the Director of Abuja School of Social and Political Thought and a Visiting Professor at the Emerald Energy Institute at the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State.

He holds a research doctorate degree (SJD) in Law from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004), a Master of Public Administration (2003), and a Master’s in Law (LL.M (2001) from the same institution.

He has an LL.B. from the University of Calabar, in 1992. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993 after passing from the Nigerian Law School.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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