INVITES THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE AND SEND PAPERS TO HER 2025 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
THEME: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN UPHOLDING VALUES IN NIGERIA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR MRS NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, DIRECTOR-GENERAL WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
SUB-THEMES:
- LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD
MAIN SPEAKER: DR KANU AGABI, SAN
- REVITALIZING ETHICAL AND MORAL EDUCATION MAIN SPEAKER: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, ABUJA
- THE ROLES OF TRADITIONAL, FAMILY, RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF ETHICAL VALUES IN NIGERIA
MAIN SPEAKER: BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH, OON
- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS MAIN SPEAKER: DR DAKUKU ADOL-PETERSIDE (FORMER DG, NIMASA)
- THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA AND ICT, INCLUDING AI IN ADVANCING ETHICAL VALUES IN NIGERIA MAIN SPEAKER: PROF. SUNNY ORIGE
DATE: THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER, 2025
TIME: 9AM-6PM
VENUE: DR OBI WALI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, PORT HARCOURT.
CHAIRMAN OF THE EVENT: KING ALFRED DIETTE-SPIFF (FORMER MILITARY GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE & AMANYANABO OF TWON BRASS, BAYELSA STATE)
ROYAL FATHERS OF THE DAY: HRM KING CHIKE AMADI WORLU-WODO (CHAIRMAN, RIVERS STATE TRADITIONAL RULERS COUNCIL & EZE APARA IV), Chairman Benue State Traditional Rulers’ Council and paramount ruler of the TIV nation, His Royal Majesty, Professor James Ayatse, the Tor-Tiv.
SPECIAL GUESTS OF HONOUR: GOVERNORS OF RIVERS,
ABIA, BAYELSA, OGUN, KADUNA AND DELTA STATES
GUESTS OF HONOUR: ALIKO DANGOTE, FEMI OTEDOLA, TONY ELUMELU, DUMO LULU-BRIGGS, GRANT OFFOR, ATEDO PETERSIDE, DAME FOLORUNSO ALAKIJA.
CHIEF HOST:
PROF. EMERITUS OTONTI NDUKA, FNAE, DSSRS
CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
HOST:
PROF. ISAAC ZEB-OBIPI
VICE CHANCELLOR, RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY
CHAIRMAN ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
PROF. HILLARY WORDU
08037046379, 08181179999.
Otonti Nduka Foundation for Values Education in collaboration with the Rivers State University Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt is planning to hold on 13th November, 2025 a major National Conference with the theme: TRENDS and Challenges in Upholding Values in Nigeria. Our aim is to use the conference as a forum for Nigerians from all walks of life:
“To mutually interrogate ourselves with particular reference to the national values landscape and collectively reset the compass of the society’s ethical and values system generally.”
Otonti Nduka Foundation for Values Education was launched on May, 2006. The purpose of the foundation is:
“To revitalize the moral fibre of the Nigerian society through the enunciation, inculcation, propagation and dissemination of appropriate positive values capable of sustaining a modern, democratic, scientifically-oriented, multi-ethnic, multi-religious plural society.”
The Foundation was incorporated as a Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) on 3d April, 2007 by the Corporate Affairs Commission with the Registration No. 23474. The current Board of Trustees is as follows:
- Prof. Emeritus Otonti Nduka (Chairman)
- Prof. Hillary Wordu
- Emeritus Prof. Ebi Awotua-Efebo
- Emeritus Prof. Timothy U. Nwala
- Barr. Oge Joy Sasegbon
- Prof. Christian Akani
- Prof. Priye Iyalla-Amadi (Secretary).
Budget For The 2025 National Conference of Otonti Nduka Foundation For Values Education:
(A) Venue and Logistics:
- Venue rental (Obi Wali International Conference Centre): N6,000,000
- Public Address and DJ: N1,000,000
- Catering: N7,000,000
- Security and ushering: N900,000
- Decorations and branding: N1,000,000
(B) Speakers and Program:
- Speakers fees and honorarium: N15,000,000
- Program production (audio-visual, etc.): N2,000,000
- Conference materials and printing: N3,000,000
- Program coordination and management: N2,000,000
(C) Marketing and Promotion:
- Advertising (print, online, electronic): ₩3,000,000
- Promotional materials (flyers, posters, polos, tag, bags, files, etc.): N4,000,000
- Social media management and Livestreaming: N1,000,000
- Press coverage and media relations: N3,000,000
(D) Administration and Miscellaneous:
- Conference coordination and management: N2,500,000
- Transportation and accommodation: ₩30,000,000
- Miscellaneous expenses: N2,000,000
- National Newspapers advertorials and publications of Communique-N6,000,000
(E) Guest and Participant Management
- Participant registration and management: N1,500,000
- Contingencies – N849,000
- Post event book publishing N1, 424,500
Total Budget: N99,973,000.
The attached documents provide some details concerning the agenda and purview of the Conference. The cost implication of the Conference and follow-up programmes is estimated at N100,000,000 (One Hundred Million Naira Only) Nigerians from all walks of life, Governments, captains of industry, organisations and well-wishers at home and abroad are hereby respectfully invited to partner with us in this noble venture and donate generously towards the cost of the same. Such philanthropic gestures will be acknowledged appropriately at the right time.
Bank details to which all donations can be channeled are:
Account Name: Otonti Nduka Foundation for Values Education
Account No.: 2009840377
Bank: First Bank Plc
Yours faithfully,
Prof. Emeritus Otonti Nduka, FNAE, DSSRS Chairman, Board of Trustees
Prof. Hillary Wordu Chairman, Conference Committee.
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