THE Management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced that Engr. Debo Fagbami, Managing Director of the NEDO Gas Development Company, will chair the Realnews 14th Anniversary Lecture.
The lecture, “Geopolitical Turbulence and Energy Security: Forging Strategic Opportunities for Africa,” will be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Isaac John, Ikeja, GRA, Lagos, on Thursday, November 19, 2026.
A statement issued by
Maureen Chigbo, PhD,
Publisher/Editor, explained that
Fagbami’s acceptance to Chair the lecture was communicated to Realnews through his email message dated Wednesday, August 22, 2026, stating: “Consider this as a confirmation of my acceptance to chair the Anniversary Lecture of Realnews. Kindly keep me updated.”
Fagbami leads NEDO Gas Development Company, a Joint Venture gas development and infrastructure company established under one of NCDMB’s partnership initiatives. Debo holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan and an Executive MBA from Henley Business School in the UK.
He has been an active volunteer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), where he served as Chairman of the Port Harcourt Section and as the 2019 Chair of the Nigerian Council. He is a past Council Member of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA), where he served as the Publicity Secretary from 2014 to 2016. He is a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and registered with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
The managing director is an Executive Director at OIDA Energy and also sits on the Board of Siri Global Investment & Consultancy Company, a marginal field operator. He is a keen industry mentor who has mentored several young professional engineers across various disciplines and endeavors.
Realnews, a general interest magazine, is an online publication that thrives on investigative journalism.
“We have expertise in reporting on the oil and gas sector with its attendant environmental challenges.
“We aim to unearth exclusive stories about real people and the challenges they face in their day-to-day activities. “We do this bearing in mind that the government can only act to influence the lives of people positively if they are aware of their true situation.
“Hence, our objective is to use our investigative skills to ferret out information in the sectors we focus on and produce an unbiased report that will influence the government and decision-makers to take actions that will make society better.
