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Shettima
By KEMI KAYODE
Vice President Kashim Shettima is billed to lead a distinguished array of dignitaries to this year’s International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM), underscoring the significance of the organisation’s flagship event.
The 2025 Annual Conference and AGM will hold on December 2 and 3, 2025, at the NICON Luxury Hotel, Central Business District, Abuja.
Among the high-profile guests expected are the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris; Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi; Professor of Mass Communication and Registrar of Baze University, Abiodun Adeniyi; a former Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; former spokesperson to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu; and a former State Chief of Protocol to Buhari, Ambassador Lawal Kazaure.
Several other eminent personalities and senior media leaders, including the Executive Director of IPI Global, Scott Grifen; and former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, are also billed to attend.
Presidents of major media associations have similarly been invited to the event.
They include the President of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Maiden Alex-Ibru; the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Eze Anaba; the President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Danlami Nmodu, mni; and the President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Alhassan Yahya Abdul.









