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.
