By Faith Tiza Mar, 21, 2022 Private

NGX Reveals Partnership plans with the University of Lagos at the NUGA Games

Temi Popoola, the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Exchange Limited ("NGX" or "The Exchange"), has stated that the company is interested in cultivating the future generation of capital market participants.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, he announced this at a Digital Closing Gong Ceremony to commemorate the 26th Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Games sponsored by the University of Lagos ("The University" or "UNILAG").

"We are delighted to cooperate with the University of Lagos to offer courses that can yield degrees that are closely tied to the capital market," Popoola said in his opening remarks. While we have previously focused our workforce training on stakeholders in the capital market ecosystem, we now consider students as prospective participants who can help us improve our value chain.

Our efforts to raise awareness about the capital market's prospects and benefits must extend to the growing number of people who are uninformed about how it works, many of whom are enrolled in universities around the country. Given the young demographic of Nigeria's population, which accounts for 60% of the overall population, active involvement by this demographic is important to the capital market's growth. We'll keep leveraging technology to further automate process flows across the market's intermediaries."

Prof. Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, FAS, Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, thanked Nigerian Exchange Limited for the opportunity to use the Closing Gong Ceremony to generate awareness for the NUGA Games.

"This competition will bring the world to the University of Lagos and to Nigeria in general to exhibit the positive things that are happening in the country, and NGX is one of the platforms that is bringing good things to Nigeria," he said. The competition will be a cosmopolitan affair, with activities taking place in a variety of venues across Lagos State, including Teslim Balogun Stadium, Rowe Park, Yaba, and others.

The NUGA Games are themed "Education and Culture" this year to highlight Lagos' cultural legacy. We estimate around 9,000 students and observers from approximately 75 universities to attend the games, and they will all be hosted during the event. We continue our continuous cooperation with NGX in the areas of research, innovation, and education through this event, which will provide solutions to some of the country's difficulties and highlight the University of Lagos as the University of First Choice."

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