PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

Opinion Leaders Discuss “The New Obama Administration” through DVC

Date: January 22, 2009
Venue: Lagos

PAO Jennifer Walsh presenting a PowerPoint to participants who attended the DVC program in Lagos | Full size

Fifty Lagos-based journalists, university lectures, human rights activists and NGO members attended a DVC on the new Obama Administration with Professor Steven Ekovich at the Public Affairs Section of the United States Consulate General in Lagos on January 22.  Prof. Ekovich, who teaches International and Comparative Politics at the American University in Paris, spoke on the popularity of President Obama, his cabinet and relationship with Congress and the likely policy moves of the new Administration.  He also took questions from the Lagos participants.  Before the DVC, PAO Jennifer DeWitt Walsh gave a PowerPoint presentation entitled “U.S. – Forming the Next Government” to explain the process of the transition to the Lagos audience.