The director general of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ms Arunma Oteh was in Sokoto, the city of the caliphate to have a general public lecture and to have an interactive session with the students of Business Administration, Accounting, Law and Economics of the Usmanu Danfodiyo university sokoto.

Ms Arunma Oteh enters the capital market with the desire to make history and in order to make difference, she believes there is an urgent need to reinvigorate the capital market. To drive home the seriousness of her passion, she is using the two edged sword viz: launching of the capital market club in secondary schools and at the same time campaigning for the use of the capital market as an alternative source of funding, Sokoto State as the rallying point for the programme.

She spoke with the students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University extensively on the benefits of savings, especially using the stock market as the mode of doing it, highlighting what it means to the development of our economy. She was able to relate with the students, and the session was an interactive one, students asked different questions like how to become an investor and how to protect oneself from the volatile and unpredictable market that fluctuates all the time. She and her entourage gave advice and guideline on the process of getting into the stock market.

At the end of the interactive session, free T-shirts and Caps were promised and given to students who attended the session which lasted for about 2 hours.  Important personalities who are present at the occasion include the Dean of Students affairs, the Dean of the faculty of Management Sciences, Head Of Department of Business Administration, Head Of Department of Accounting, President of Business Administration Students, President of Accounting Students, President of Law Students, President of Public Administration Students, Secretary General of Economics Students and the Financial Secretary of th Students Union Government of the school were all present at the occasion.

At the end of the session students comments that such a session is an opportunity for learning from the professional exactly what is going on in the real world. Some were of the view that what they have learnt is a knowledge that money cannot buy, and they were grateful for the gesture of the SEC’s DG.

The   increase in  examination  malpractices  has  become a source of concern for  the National Business  and  Technical  Examinations  Board (NABTEB), Registrar  of  NABTEB  Professor David  Awanbor  has said.Addressing newsmen yesterday in  Benin, Edo State, Prof. Awanbor lamented that  examination  malpractices  had  continued  despite  all  the  laws  and  decrees  enacted  to  curb it.
He  said  he  was  however  delighted that NABTEB  had  not  only  broken  the  jinx  of  unresolved  examination  malpractice  cases in courts,  but  had  also  set  the  pace  in  the  quest  for  diligent  prosecution  of  offenders.
“Permit  me  to  say  with  all  sense  of  humility  that  NABTEB  is  the  first  examination  body  to  diligently  pursue  the  case  of  examination  cheats  from  the  points  of  arrest  to  prison  sentence”, he said.
He cited  the  recent  judgment  delivered  by  Justice  I.N Buba  of  the  Federal  High  Court,  Lafia  in  Nassarawa  State,  where  one  Patrick Ogyoko, 68,  a  secondary  school  teacher  appointed  by  NABTEB  as  supervisor  and  James  S.  Abiola  also  a  teacher  appointed  as  invigilator  were  found  guilty  and  sentenced  to  three  years  imprisonment  on  each  of  the  three  count  charge.
Awanbor  assured  that  in  line  with  the  new  education  roadmap, the  examination  body  would  continue  to  sustain  its  zero  tolerance  for  examination  malpractice.

Matthew Ohiani Adeiza, a 400-level student of Mass Communication at  University of Jos, has emerged second place winner of the 2009 edition of the Culture of Enterprise International Students Essay Contest which was announced this April. Young Adeiza, received a cash prize of  $5,000. The award ceremony at which he was presented with this prize, took place on 6th April 2010 at the Harvard Club of New York. The first place winner was Matthew Shaffer of Yale University while Rachael Bishop of Mercer University, (both in the United States), came third.

The essay contest is an initiative of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, ISI, a non-governmental organization committed to academic excellence and holistic education. It is based in Delaware, United States. Interested students post their entries to an address on the essay website at CultureOfEnterprise.Org

This years annual International Students Essay contest was on the topic, “Can Character and Communities Survive in an Age of Globalization?” The contest is designed to encourage students to reflect on the relationship between free enterprise and the institutions and mores that define a particular culture.

The essay is open to undergraduate University Students from around the world. This is the first time a student from an African University is coming second in the essay contest (What a privileged for Nigeria!) . The only and most notable performance before now was that of Garreth Bloor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who emerged fourth in the 2007 edition of the competition.

The picture above is Mr. Adeiza by the left and two other winners.

Mr Adeiza has previously won some national essay competitions, including the 2005 edition of the Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition for Secondary Schools in Nigeria, and the 2009 Omololu Falobi Essay Competition for Journalism Students in Nigeria.

Source: Sahara Reporters

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