BY Victor Akhidenor
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has partnered SPORTSPRO NIGERIA, to initiate a sports business capacity development programme.
The workshop is facilitated by the School of Media and Communications, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos and leading sports management company, Premium Sports Management Services Limited.
The inaugural workshop of SPORTSPRO NIGERIA 2015 with the theme “The Sports Industry in Nigeria, Communicating the potentials, Leveraging the opportunities” will have Jim Pulcrano, member of the EMBA teaching team and former executive director at IMD Business School, Switzerland delivering the keynote address “Changing the Game – The outlook for sports as a business” with the sub-theme “Nigeria as the Silicon Valley of the Sports Industry in Africa” at the auditorium of Lagos Business School.
The workshops are aimed at engaging with a cross section of Nigerian private sector groups to communicate the potentials of the sports sector in Nigeria as a driver of the economy, and how to leverage the opportunities therein.
The NSE as its contribution towards attracting the Nigerian investing sector to participate at SPORTSPRO NIGERIA 2015 workshops has invited the syndicates of the programme made up of A-list resource persons drawn from within and outside Nigeria, the SMC and other partners to the floor of the exchange on Thursday, August 13, 2015.
At the NSE, Pulcrano will address the Management of the NSE as well as Stockbrokers on the floor, before partaking in the ceremonial “ringing of the bell” to close the day’s trading activities.
With this initiative, Nigerian Stock Exchange has joined other institutional partners expressing interest in the programme which include: the National Sports Commission, Nigeria Olympic Committee, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Bank of Industry, National Broadcasting Commission, Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation, League Management Company, Media Independent Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Tony Elumelu Foundation, International Association of Sports Journalists Africa, Asset Management Company of Nigeria.
SPORTSPRO NIGERIA is positioned as an annual event hopes to tap into the knowledge and experience of global sports industry personalities in its syndicate to share their insights, thoughts and experiences in the business of sports.
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