Engr. Debo Fagbami, Managing Director of the NEDO Gas Development Company, NEDOGAS will chair the Realnews 14th Anniversary Lecture, the publication’s management has announced.
The lecture, themed “Geopolitical Turbulence and Energy Security: Forging Strategic Opportunities for Africa,” holds November 19 in Lagos.
Fagbami confirmed his acceptance in an email to Realnews dated August 22, 2026. “Consider this as a confirmation of my acceptance to chair the Anniversary Lecture of Realnews. Kindly keep me updated,” he wrote.
The chairmanship places the gas executive at the helm of a forum that has, for fourteen years, drawn Nigeria’s senior policymakers, regulators, industry operators and academics into debate on the continent’s most consequential questions.
A career spanning gas, engineering and industry governance
Fagbami leads NEDOGAS, a joint venture gas development and infrastructure company established under one of the partnership initiatives of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan and an Executive MBA from Henley Business School in the United Kingdom.
His professional footprint runs through the core institutions of Nigeria’s petroleum industry. A long-standing volunteer with the Society of Petroleum Engineers, he served as Chairman of the Port Harcourt Section and as Chair of the Nigerian Council in 2019.
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He is a past Council member of the Nigerian Gas Association where he was Publicity Secretary between 2014 and 2016, and belongs to the Nigerian Society of Engineers. He is registered with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.
Beyond NEDOGAS, Fagbami serves as an Executive Director at OIDA Energy and sits on the board of Siri Global Investment & Consultancy Company, a marginal field operator. He is also a noted industry mentor, having guided young professional engineers across several disciplines.
A lecture series built on national discourse
The Realnews Anniversary Lecture Series was established to honour the best minds in society and draw on their expertise to enrich debate on national development.
The 13th edition was delivered by Dr. Musa Adamu, SAN, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, on “Cybersecurity, Illicit Financial Flows and Achieving Agenda 2063 in Africa.”
The 12th lecture was given by Ambassador Professor Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, on “Africa in World Shifting Geopolitics: Matters Arising on Demography, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Resources.”
In 2023, Dr. Edwin W. Harris Jr., Director-General of the ECOWAS Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa addressed “The Threats of Illicit Funds Flow to the African Economy.”
The 2022 edition, on “Drug Abuse among Youths in Africa: Implications for Nigerian Economy and 2023 Elections,” was delivered by Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, then Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, delivered the 2021 lecture on “Nigeria in the Unfolding Integration of the African Market: The Oil and Gas Perspective.”
Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, spoke in 2020 on “Managing COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: The Nigeria Experience.”
Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama delivered the 2019 lecture on “Beyond Politics: An Economic Narrative for West Africa,” while Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman, addressed “Political Transitions and Africa’s Economic Development: Preparations for Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections” in 2018.
About Realnews
Realnews is a general-interest online magazine built on investigative journalism, with particular expertise in reporting the oil and gas sector and its attendant environmental challenges. Its work focuses on unearthing exclusive stories about real people and the daily difficulties they confront, on the conviction that government can only act to improve lives when it understands their true situation.
The publication’s editors, with several decades of combined experience in active journalism, describe their mission as producing unbiased reporting that influences decision-makers to act in the public interest. Realnews’s motto is “For God and Humanity.”
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