JIFORM Canada Summit: Registration Portal, Speakers Unveiled

By Our Reporter

The Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) on Friday unveiled registration portal for it’s third global migration summit scheduled for Niagara Falls, Canada between November 29- December 6 this year. 

A statement issued by the President of JIFORM comprising over 300 Journalists covering migration across the continents headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, Ajibola Abayomi directed interested applicants to log into www. jiformalert.org to register for the event in earnest.

Invited speakers for the conference included former President of Malawi, Dr Joyce Banda; former Canada Secretary of state and minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Honourable Gerry Weiner; Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Nigeria; Professor Patrick Lumumba from Kenya and the Global Director, Disapora Innovation Institute, City University, New York City, USA Professor Byron Price.

Others were member African Union Labour Migration Advisory Committee, Dr Princess Kabuki Ocansey from Ghana; Chairman Nigeria’s House of Representatives Committee on Disapora Matters, Hon Tolulope Akande-Sadipe; Williams Goiz, Regional Director, Malaysia Migration Forum; Ms Johanna Mac from Eric Broost Institute, Dortmund University, Germany.

Some of the participating agencies are International Organization for Migration (IOM), Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and Asian- Pacific Institute of Broadcasting Development (AIBD) Malaysia and others.

The 2021 migration summit’s theme to be x-rayed by Prof Price tagged Exploring The Benefits Of Migration Post Covid-19 Era To Retool Global is being powered by the JIFORM in partnership with the ALTEC Global Inc, Toronto, Canada.

Other facilitators are Home for the Needy, Edo State, Nigeria, Global Cynergies LLC Toronto, Canada and the  Diaspora Innovation Institute, Federal University of Technology, Akure Ondo State, Nigeria.