Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr. Tony Elumelu, will today give the keynote address as the UN General Assembly and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) hosts the opening session of the 2014 Forum on Partnerships, which has as theme “The Role of Partnerships in the Implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.”
Elumelu will speak on the importance of economic indicators and the role of the private sector in the next round of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He will speak after a panel which will include H. E. Mr. John Ashe, President of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Martin Sajdik, President of ECOSOC, and H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The event will be attended by the 93 representatives to the UN General Assembly, as well as the UN Press Corps.
The opening session will begin at 3pm WAT and be broadcast live on UN TV and UN Radio. The live broadcast will be available at http://webtv.un.org/live/.
Later in the day, Elumelu will at 6.30pm WAT speak to Voice of America’s Shaka Ssali, host of ‘Straight Talk Africa’, about the $7 billion Power Africa initiative and its impact on the continent so far.
•Photo shows Tony Elumelu.
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