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Abubakar Bello, governor of Niger state, will deliver the News Express 5th anniversary lecture on Thursday, September 28, 2017.

Isaac Umuna, publisher of the newspaper, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday.

Umunna said the governor would speak on the topic: ‘National Unity and the Demand for Restructuring — A Governor’s Perspective’.

“We are delighted to have His Excellency, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, deliver the News Express 5th Anniversary Lecture. Perhaps no issue is engaging the attention of Nigerians at the moment more than national unity and restructuring,” the statement read.

“We have chosen the right man to speak on this crucial issue at this moment of heightening agitations across the country. His Excellency, Governor Sani Bello, is a distinguished newbreed Nigerian leader whose state, Niger, has over the decades played a very significant role in promoting national unity. We are sure that he will bring fresh and interesting perspectives to the issue on the lecture day.”

Umunna added that the lecture would hold in Lagos at a venue soon to be made public, and would be graced by a galaxy of personalities whose identities would be unveiled in due course.

News Express, which debuted on August 29, 2012, is one of the online platforms in Nigeria. It is read by hundreds of thousands of people around the world and records annual traffic of upwards of 100 million.

The statement said hundreds of thousands of people around the world visit the site which records an “annual traffic of upwards of 100 million”.