Food Security, Poverty Alleviation And The Oceanic Forum By Reuben Abati As part of its social responsibility programme, Oceanic Bank International Plc, now organizes an annual Global Leaders Forum through which it facilitates public debate by both local and international speakers on an urgent issue of national interest. Last year, the Forum on April 29, 2008 examined the theme of "Human Development in an Emerging Economy". This year, the event which was held on May 5, in Lagos, focused on "Food Security and Poverty Alleviation". The more interesting aspect of the Oceanic Global Leaders Forum is the participation in it every year of Nobel Laureates and high profile international figures. Last year, they had Professor Wole Soyinka (Nobel 1986), Professor Eric Maskin (Nobel, 2007) Professor Rita Dove (US Poet Laureate) and Professor Henry Louis Gates (foremost American scholar and intellectual) as Gu...
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