As part of measures to ensure the success of its 8th annual conference, the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers GOCOP, is partnering the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board NCDMB, Emadeb Group and Dangote Group, who lead the group of other partners. The conference is scheduled to hold Thursday, October 3, 2024 at the Reverton Hotel, GRA Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

Speaking in Lagos, Friday, chairman of the 2024 Conference Planning Committee, Danlami Nmodu, mni, also listed other partners to include Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority NCAA, Setraco Nigeria Limited, United Bank for Africa UBA and the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC.

The theme of the 8th annual conference is “Nigeria: Tackling Insecurity, Power Deficit, and Transitioning to Digital Economy”. Recall also that former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has accepted to deliver the keynote speech.

Other partners include the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, Access Bank plc, Zenith Bank plc, First City Monument Bank FCMB, Fidelity Bank plc, Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc STI, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM and National Film and Video Censors Board NFVCB.

A major highlight of this year’s conference, Nmodu said, is a business luncheon with GOCOP partners slated for Wednesday, October 2, at the Reverton Hotel, GRA Lokoja,  while the conference itself would hold on Thursday, October 3.

Nmodu noted that the 8th edition would be chaired by former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Alhaji Yusuf Mamman, while former Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai (Rtd) and the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida would be Guest Speakers, even as a Professor of Political Science at the Federal University Lokoja, Prof Rotimi Ajayi and an edutainment communicator and veteran broadcaster, Ms Debrah M. Ogazuma are panellists.

It would be recalled that GOCOP conference 2023 was chaired by the Registrar\CEO, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB, Prof Ishaq Olarenwaju Oloyede, while the first Nigerian Professor of Capital Market, Prof Uchenna Joseph Uwaleke was the keynote speaker.

Previous speakers at the annual conference consisted of Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto who delivered the 2019 lecture on “Economy, Security and National Development: The Way Forward.”

In 2021, Mr. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, keynoted the Conference in his capacity as Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. He spoke on: “Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria.”

In 2022, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, delivered the keynote entitled “2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome.”

GOCOP was established to ensure that online publishers uphold the tenets of journalism. Membership of the Guild is a constellation of editors and senior journalists who, having distinguished themselves in their various positions in the print and electronic media, ventured into online publishing which is both the present and future of journalism globally. The Guild has over 104 corporate publishers as members.