Adebimpe Balogun, first female president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, and Tunde Fowler, Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, are billed to participate in the eighth Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series that will take place on Wednesday 13 July 2016 by 10am at NECA Building, Agidingbi, Ikeja , Lagos.

Balogun will deliver this year’s lecture with the theme, “Tax education, national development and the seminal role of the media”. Fowler is also expected to participate in the event.

A statement by Motunrayo Alaka, Coordinator of the centre, said discussants at the event include: Auwal Musa (Rafsanjani), Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Modupe Oyekunle, President of NECA’s Network of Entrepreneurial Women, NNEW, Simon Kolawole, Publisher of The Cable Newspaper, Emuesiri Agbeyi, Tax Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deremi Atanda, Executive Director of Systemspecs.

Opeyemi Agbaje, Managing Director of Resources and Trust Company will moderate the event.