The Managing Director of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Hon. Emmanuel Jime will on Thursday, September 28, 2017 deliver the Keynote Address at the News Express 5th Anniversary Lecture holding this Thursday, September 28, 2017, at Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. He will speak on the topic, “Using the Platform of Public Office to Reclaim the Promise of Our Destiny”.

Jime joins a strong cast of dignitaries, including Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, the Guest Speaker, who will dwell on the theme, "National Unity and the Restructuring Debate – A Governor’s Perspective.”

One of the highlights of the occasion would be the unveiling of the new logo ofNews Express, reputed as Nigeria’s fastest-growing online news stable.

The event would be chaired by one of Nigeria’s leading industrialists and Chief Executive Officer of Zinox Technologies, Leo Stan Ekeh.

In a related development, Jime has reiterated his unalloyed commitment to staff welfare via a bouquet of incentives.

Speaking at the end of a routine Management-Labour interface, theNEPZA MDsaid there was no going back on the issue, saying when he spoke confidently about it, he was neither sloganeering nor using hackneyed clichés.

His words: “Staff welfare is something we are totally committed to – there is no going back on it and there are no second thoughts about it. If it’s not yet evident, it’s because we are following due process so that we do not act outside the ambit of the law.”

He added: “So, when we talk about staff welfare, we mean it. We are not sloganeering, sloganising, campaigning or indulging in the use of hackneyed clichés. I believe in my heart of hearts that if there is welfare in the house, there would be no warfare; and instead of solidarity songs, staff would be singing redemption songs.”