The Nigerian Government will collaborate with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in key aspects of improving the economy, including the Ease of Doing Business, the country’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said.
Osinbajo said that the collaboration would also cover the privatization of public enterprises,
Receiving a delegation from the NSE led by its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Oscar Onyema, which paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa on Thursday in Abuja, Osinbajo said that the proposed NSE collaboration with the Federal Government on important programmes of the Buhari administration would enhance service delivery and improve transparency in public governance.
“The collaboration with the Federal Government in the Ease of Doing Business, government’s privatization programme and even in the innovation hubs programme is a good thing, and I think it will be very helpful.
“The NSE’s participation and collaboration in our Quarterly Business Forum and the competitiveness council will also be very useful. So, generally I think collaborating with the NSE in different initiatives is a good idea,” he said.
Speaking on the benefits derivable from such collaboration, the Vice President said: “The participation of the NSE will bring about more transparency and credibility in the sale of public enterprises and we will look into that aspect.’’
Osinbajo said the Federal Government would make efforts to further improve the ease of doing business environment and also key into any initiative that promotes innovation and creativity.
Earlier in his remarks, Mr. Onyema briefed the Vice President on the proposed collaboration with the Federal Government in the operationalization of the Exchange’s innovation hub and other initiatives of the Federal Government, to which the NSE is willing to support.
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