Press Release
In a rare affirmation of Nigeria’s rising profile in the global community of capital markets regulation, Ms. Arunma Oteh, Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Nigeria rang the bell at the close of trading on the floor of the NYSE yesterday, Monday 26th September, 2011. The NYSE is easily the world’s foremost stock exchange. The “ring of bell†is an honour which is exclusively reserved for the world’s foremost business and economic leaders.
In Nigeria’s history, only President Olusegun Obasanjo is known to have been accorded this exclusive privilege.
Yakubu Olaleye
Corporate Communications
Nigeria’s Securities & Exchange Commission
