Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria, ICSAN has continued to prepare its members to become world leaders through her continuous training to evaluate both economic/corporate governance issues and proffer solutions.
To this end, the institutes annual national conference will not only incorporate extensive discussions, but will also consist of guest speaker sessions and scintillating social events and communique that will be issued at the end of the conference.
The theme of the forty-fifth conference, dinner and awards is “African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA and National Development: Issues, challenges and Opportunities”.

Registrar/CEO, Taiwo Ganiyat Olusesi, FCIS; Vice President of the Institute and Chairman, Conference and AGM Committee, Funmi Ekundayo, FCIS; ICSAN Treasurer, Francis Olawale, FCIS, and Chairperson, Publicity & Advocacy Committee, Lynda Onefeli at the briefing in Lagos.

According to ICSAN Vice President, Funmi Ekundayo, the Conference, is one of the programmes which creates opportunity and enables its members and corporate practitioners to consider pressing global corporate governance issues.
She said this at a pre-conference briefing to announce the forty-fifth annual conference and dinner in Lagos.
The Chairman Conference and AGM Committee, says the conference, which would take place between September sixteen and seventeen, would address Nigeria’s ongoing infrastructural development, emerging roles and opportunities for its members and better intra-African collaboration on infrastructural development.
Ekundayo says Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State will be honoured with the ICSAN Award in Corporate Governance, individual award, the ICSAN honourary Fellowship will go to Vice-Chancellor, Babcock University, Prof. Tayo Ademola and DG, Nigerian Law School, Abuja, Prof. Isa Hayatu Ciroma while Sir Leo Okafor, FCIS, Group Company Secretary/Legal Counsel, UBA Capital PLC would receive the ICSAN distinguished Secretary Award.
She explained that the theme for the conference is topical national issue that is critical to the economic success of the nation and continent in general, which is why the theme is broken down into three further sub-themes to address specific issues as it affects the country and its economy.
In her words, to do justice to the themes, a sterling faculty has been carefully selected as speakers and Discussants to offer perspectives to move the conversation forward.
According to her, the keynote address will be delivered by Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence Prof. Akin Oyebode, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, will chair the conference, while Director, Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority, Dr. Oyesola Oyekunle, Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Jaiyeola Laoye, and Head, Corporate and Regulatory Services Unit, Nigeria Export and Import Bank, Adebola Balogun, will also speak on the first, second and third sub-themes.
The sub-themes are Nigeria infrastructural Deficit and African Continental Free Trade Zone (AfCFTA): What connections, What Solutions?; AfCTFA and the Nigerian Manufacturing Sector: Converting Challenges to Opportunities while the third is titled AfCTFA: A fresh Frontier for a Chartered Secretary/Governance Professional.
Panelists and discussants for the sessions include Dr. Garba Ado of the Department of Economics, ABU Business School, Zaria; Head, Policy and Advocacy, GAIN; Joyce Akpota, FCIS, Engr. Prof. Simon Irtwange, FNSE, President, Technical Committee on Yam Export Programme, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; and Director-General, Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, Sola Obadimu.
Also at the briefing were Mr. Francis Olawale, FCIS, ICSAN Treasurer; Taiwo Ganiyat Olusesi, FCIS, Registrar/CEO, ICSAN and Mrs. Lynda Onefeli, Chairperson, Publicity & Advocacy Committee, ICSAN among others.