A socio-cultural group of well accomplished Igbo women – by ancestry or marriage – Nkata Ndi Inyom Igbo Foundation (NNIIF), has announced its annual conference in Abuja for the 3rd of December 2024, with the aim of promoting unity and development.
It is a follow-up of previous conferences in Lagos and Enugu, and this year’s theme is “Driving Transformation through Value Re-orientation, Inclusive Leadership and Sustainability”.
A press statement issued by the group explained that ‘Nkata’ in Igbo means conversation and “we all know the value of conversation in fostering unity, arbitration, interventions and all forms of inter personal relationships from family to even global levels of bilateral and multilateral communications”.
The Founder and President General of the group is Iyom Josephine Anenih, a renowned social and gender advocate and Nigeria’s former Minister of Women Affairs.
The group’s motto is “Partnering for Development” with acknowledgement that both genders can work together for development, noted the statement issued on its behalf by Nnedinso Ogaziechi, National Publicity Secretary of NNIIF.
According to the statement, “it is with a view to the complimentary roles of both men and women that the idea of an urgent need for nkata (conversation) was birthed to address preesing regional and national issues.
“This year’s conference was deliberately set for the nation’s capital Abuja for us to bring the conversation to a national platform.
“To us, the urgent need to have nkata around the loss of our shared values and what remedies we can adopt to foster unity and development. It would be happening at the Sandrilia hotel Abuja on the 3rd of December 2024.”
It further revealed that the conference will be chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives,, Benjamin Kalu; His Royal Highness, Khalifa Sanusi II, (Sarkin Kano) will be the Father of the Day; and Dame Timi Agary will be Mother of the Day.
Speakers expected at the event include Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, Dave Umahi, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Osita Chidoka, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Labaran Maku, Dr. Stella Iwuagwu, Erelu Olabisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Dame May Ikokwu and others.
