Chinyere Okoye
16 October 2008
Lagos — In its effort to deepen the Emmanuel Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe's development philosophy and its universal principles, His Holiness, Dalai-Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet will deliver this year's lecture keynote address. To share the podium with the Tibetan leader will be the former President of Poland, Mr. Aleksander Kwasniewski.
The lecture series put together by the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation has developed a life of its own while many world leaders from former Israeli Prime Minister, Simon Peres, wife of former British Prime Minister, Mrs. Cherrie Blair, United States former Vice President Al Gore, Former President of South Africa P.W De Clerk, former British Prime Minister John Major among others have been past keynote address speakers.
The lecture that will hold at its traditional venue, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos on November 27, 2008 will have as its theme "The Unity of The Absolute, the Oneness of All Religions: Value Guided Conduct as a Universal Tenet and Propriety as a Way of Life for Mankind." Dalai Lama will deliver his keynote address on the topic 'The Universality of the God Principle, the Sense of Unity in the Teachings of the Great Masters'
Speaking on this year's lecture, Coordinator, Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation, Mr. Michael Anyiam-Osigwe said the two speakers have confirmed their attendance and that all preparations are being done to have a great event.
"This year will be the tenth year of the foundation and the lecture series. We are ready to host another great event. The theme for this year was carefully chosen because of place of religion in engendering social harmony and human development," he said.
He also noted that many countries and societies that would have advanced in every indices of human development have remained backward as a result of religious war adding that part of the objectives of the foundation is to promote inter-religion harmony.
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