The Chairman of Bank of Industry, Mallam Aliyu AbdulRahman Dikko, Mrs. Braimoh Anastasia, Deputy Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission and many other leading voices in both private and public sector are expected to be key speakers at this year’s Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria, ICSAN, scheduled for 19th and 20th of November, 2020.
The conference with the theme: Entrenching the Right Governance Framework for Economic Development and Sustainability, will also have Prof. Peter Siyan of the Department of Economics, University of Abuja, Dr. Olusegun Lawrence Aina, Chairman, Odua Investment Company limited; Mrs. Amina Oyagbola, Managing Consultant ARMS consulting ltd; Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, D.G/CEO National information Technology Agency and Cecilia Madueke of Julius Berger Plc.
Speaking on the importance of this year’s conference theme, President of ICSAN, Mr. Bode Ayeku (FCIS), said there is a need to entrench corporate values and ethics in businesses, noting that it is the only way the business can be sustained.
According to him, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown as well as the recent #EndSARS protest had a negative impact on businesses in the country, adding that adopting the right corporate governance could be used to reset properly in order to restart operations.
“Nobody anticipated COVID-19, and I am not aware of any corporate body that had a budget for COVID-19 because it was too sudden. However, a company with the right corporate governance code in place, though will feel the negative impact of the season, will survive,” he said.
He said one of the sub-themes: The New Normal: Emerging Trends in Corporate Governance and its Implication on Business Continuity, will actually discuss the importance of adopting the right corporate governance code for business and corporate growth.
Speaking on the country’s economy, especially the recent revelation that Nigeria may seek for more loan to bridge infrastructural gap, Ayeku argued that there was nothing wrong with borrowing, especially this time that the country’s revenue from oil has dwindled abysmally.
