The Anti-Corruption Network will on Tuesday and Wednesday (November 12 and 13) hold its maiden International Colloquium on Freedom of Information Act, 2011.
The event which has as theme “Demystifying the Complexities: Empowering the People” is scheduled to hold at NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja, from 10:00 a.m. on both days.
Executive Secretary of the Anti-Corruption Network, Otunba Dino Melaye said yesterday in a statement in Abuja: “Speakers are coming from London, United States of America and South Africa. The programme is going to be certificated and it is free. We want to raise public enlightenment on the Act. We want to use the FoI Act to fight corruption.”
•Photo shows Dino Melaye.
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