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July 21, 2020 No Responses

SEC Nigeria Pledges To Attract More Investors

Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Lamido Yuguda at the weekend, pledged the determination of the current management of the Commission to make the capital market more accessible to Nigerians in a bid to attract more investors. Yuguda,...

July 16, 2020 No Responses

Jaiz Bank Sets Aside N884m For Maiden Dividend

Shareholders of Jaiz Bank Plc are to receive a total of N884million dividend payment subjected to appropriate withholding tax. The Chairman of the Bank Alhaji Umaru Mutallab disclosed this at the 8th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the bank held...

July 15, 2020 No Responses

Market Capitalisation Recovers N8b

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday recorded the first gain of the week, appreciating marginally by 0.06 per cent due to bargain hunting in Airtel Africa. Accordingly, the All-Share Index rose by 15.67 points or 0.06 per cent to...

July 13, 2020 No Responses

Nigeria’s Stock Market Opens Week With N55b Loss

The nation’s bourse resumed transactions for the week on Monday with a loss of N55 billion following sell pressure in some blue chips. Specifically, the market capitalisation which opened at N12.679 trillion lost N55 billion to close at N12.624 trillion....

July 13, 2020 No Responses

Nigeria’s Unclaimed Dividends Hit N158.44b

The total unclaimed dividend figure in the Nigerian capital market stood at N158.44 billion as of December 2019, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Data obtained exclusively by NAN from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) show that the...

July 13, 2020 No Responses

SEC Nigeria, NITDA Collaborate On Data Protection In Capital Market

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has restated its preparedness to collaborate with the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA in a bid to foster safe conduct of transactions and usage of personal data in the Nigerian capital mark...

July 6, 2020 No Responses

Yuguda, New SEC Nigeria Boss Resumes, Pledges To Tackle Market Manipulation

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) Mr. Lamido Yuguda has stated that the capital market has a lot of potentials for growth and development of Nigeria post COVID-19 and beyond. Yuguda resumed alongside the Executive Commis...

June 15, 2020 No Responses

“Uduk, SEC Nigeria Acting DG Has Not Resigned”

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sunday denied Reports that Ms Mary Uduk, its Acting Director-General has resigned from the commission. Head, Corporate Communication, SEC, Mrs Efe Ebelo in a statement described the purported resignation of Uduk ...

June 11, 2020 No Responses

Senate Confirms Lamido Yuguda As New SEC DG

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has tasked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to ensure efficiency in the discharge of its duties so as to attract local and foreign investments to the country. The Senate President gave the charge...

June 4, 2020 No Responses

SEC Nigeria Photo News

L-R: Incoming Executive Commissioners,Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Reginald Karawusa, Incoming Director General SEC Mr Lamido Yuguda, Mr Temidayo Obisan and Mr Ibrahim Boyi during the Screening of Nominees of Director General and Fu...

April 13, 2020 No Responses

SEC Nigeria Clarifies Ban On Sharing Of Gifts At AGM

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has clarified its position on the sharing of gifts at Annual General Meetings (AGM) as contained in Rule 602 (4) of its Rules and Regulations. According to the SEC, “Rule 602(4) states that ‘’public...

April 7, 2020 No Responses

SEC Nigeria Boss Elected Into IOSCO Board

The Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk has been elected into the board of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions, IOSCO. Ms. Uduk is to represent the Africa/Middle-East Regional Committee, AM...

March 30, 2020 No Responses

SEC Nigeria Unveils Regulatory Framework For Crowd Funding

Conscious of the need to further deepen the nation’s capital market and enable it provide development capital for Medium and Small-scale Enterprises of the economy, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), at the weekend unveiled an exposure dra...

March 16, 2020 No Responses

SEC Capital Market Institute Expands Operations

As part of measures to provide excellent capital market education to stakeholders, the Nigerian Capital Market Institute (NCMI) is to operate from three centres. This was stated by acting Director-General of the SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk during a meeting with...