Rovingheights, a Lagos online bookstore, will on Thursday, 21 June 2018 host Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former minister for Finance and author of the widely acclaimed book “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous” to an evening of reading and book signing.

The event which is slated to hold at Radisson Blu Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos is Dr. Okonjo-Iweala’s first engagement with a Nigerian audience since the international release of her memoir in April 2018. It will commence at 7.30pm.

Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: the story behind the headlines” is a timely account of Dr. Okonjo Iweala’s stint as Nigeria’s immediate past finance minister and her spirited attempt to plug leakages and take on vested interests hobbling the growth of the Nigerian economy. The audacious book also details the personal costs of cleaning Nigeria’s Augean stables, which for the author included numerous death threats, culminating in the kidnap of her mother. In Dr. Okonjo Iweala’s words: “It is risky for me to write this book, but also dangerous not to write it. It is risky because corrupt and vested interests described in the book may attempt to attack me and my family physically and reputationally as they have done before.”

According to Tobi Eyinade, Rovingheights’ co-founder, “we have thought it wise to host Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala at this time to further interrogate the themes addressed in this all-important work and also give our teeming readers an opportunity to engage her on the book and broaden the conversation about tackling corruption”

The special event is one of Rovingheights’ literacy interventions geared towards generating thoughtful conversations around books and deepening a vibrant reading culture in Nigeria.

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Theif!

ABSAO:
Theif!

Illiteracy is a disease - so they say.

I guess she stole your brain.

Fighting Corruption is Dangerous”

Is because it has dig deep in our system,that is why Buhari said we should corruption before it kill us as a nation

new2012:


Illiteracy is a disease - so they say.

I guess she stole your brain.

I believe am too big to start trading abusive words with you,tribalism will never make you reason well as expected.

ABSAO:
I believe am too big to start trading abusive words with you,tribalism will never make you reason well as expected.

U think everybody is as ret.arded as you are.

You sure are too big to spell

Fighting corruption is like fighting 180million Nigerians .
No responsible leader should abandon the provision of dividends of democracy and disrespect human rights in the guise of fighting corruption .

new2012:

U think everybody is as ret.arded as you are.
You sure are too big to spell

and your write up is error free?MUMU

Its a teleconference. She dared not step into this country

ABSAO:
and your write up is error free?MUMU

Hahaha! You know I'm not responsible for your frustrations, so channel them elsewhere.

ImperialYoruba:
Its a teleconference. She dared not step into this country

It isn't. She is coming and also would be reading and talking about her book

new2012:


Hahaha! You know I'm not responsible for your frustrations, so channel them elsewhere.

U make me laugh by using word"frustration"and i'm nt ready to start making any derogatory remark about anyone's view because it is a form of stupidity in my own opinion.Learn how to mind ur business,ok!

ABSAO:
U make me laugh by using word"frustration"and i'm nt ready to start making any derogatory remark about anyone's view because it is a form of stupidity in my own opinion.Learn how to mind ur business,ok!

Dude, stop trying to justify your folly. After lacing your sentences with insults, you're talking abt the use of derogatory remarks.

Mr. adult please take a chilled pill!

You will hear some state sponsored youth who may be there to called her somename just to tarnish her image ,