Sam Amadi to speak on high cost of governance at JFCN annual lecture

The Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) will hold its 6th annual lecture on November 5.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Fred Ohwahwa, JFCN president, said Sam Amadi, a former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), will be the guest speaker at the event scheduled to be held in Abuja.

JFCN is a socio-cultural organisation that encourages oneness among members and carries out philanthropic activities.

Members of the club are professionals in engineering, communication, accounting, business, and legal, among other sectors of the economy.

Ohwahwa said Amadi will deliver a lecture titled, ‘High Cost of Governance as an Impediment to Development’.

Amadi is the director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought and a visiting professor at the Emerald Energy Institute, University of Port Harcourt.

He holds a doctorate in law from Harvard Cambridge, and Massachusetts.

Amadi also has master’s degrees in public administration and law.

Olorogun Igho, a former director-general of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, will chair the 6th JFCN annual lecture.

Ahmed Adamu, associate professor and a petroleum economist at Nile University, Abuja; Felix Oisamoje, adjunct senior lecturer of mass communications at Bingham University, Keffi; and Maxwell Kadiri of Open Society Justice Initiative will take part in a panel discussion.

Eugenia Abu, a broadcast journalist, will anchor the event.