August 30, 2015/SEC
As part of its efforts to continue to partner with relevant stakeholders in pursuance of its Corporate social responsibility, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has offered to support indigenous and indigent residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with 50 e-readers tablets to make leaning easier and affordable for the less privilege in the.
Director General of the Commission, Mounir Gwarzo made this assertion when he received members of the Federal Capital Territory Scholarship Board lead by the Director Administration and Finance (FCT Education Secretariat) Mrs Biki S. Naomi and the Director Scholarship Board Mal. Ahmad I. Rany in his office in Abuja.
He expressed the current Management’s readiness to collaborate with all stakeholders in the Education sector as a means of taking Human capital development and Investor’s Education to greater heights, noting that Scholarship is very important in the quest for the socio-economic development of the nation.
According to the DG, “It is as a result of this collaboration that the SEC will redeem its pledge of the provision of E-Readers to the two secondary schools in the FCT as part of its earlier commitment and also look into areas to further collaborate with the Board. The SEC is serious about educating Nigerians from all walks of life on investor education to deepen interest in stock market activities in the country”.
Gwarzo assured members of the FCT scholarship board that the SEC will endow a doctorate chair in a university in a topic that will be relevant to capital market appreciation. Beyond endowing a doctorate chair in a university Gwarzo also stated that the SEC will see where and how to intervene in the FCT scholarship programme to assist indigent children from primary to tertiary institutions.
E-reader is a digital library where all the texts of subjects approved for scholarly education will be loaded on an iPad or kindle for ease of learning.
In her address, Director Admin and Finance Education Secretariat of the FCT and a Leader of the delegation Mrs. Naomi Biki said that the visit is to appreciate SEC’s efforts on Human capital development programs and congratulate the Director General on his appointment. She further emphasized the need for partnership and sought for the Commission’s outright sponsorship of FCT indigenes such as orphans.
she said the visit is an opportunity to rekindle relations and make it stronger and thanked the Commission for using the FCT Schools as a pilot scheme for its social responsibility by pledging the provision of E-Reader to the two secondary schools.
Biki lamented that paucity of funds was militating against the board achieving its objective, but in spite of the lack of funds, the board had so far assisted 70,000 children who have benefited from scholarship assistance from primary to tertiary institutions.
