Super Eagles’ head coach, Sunday Oliseh, is set to ring the bell at the closing of business at the Nigeria Stock Exchange on Monday, August 17.
According to thenff.com, Oliseh will attend the symbolic event at the NSE House in Marina, Lagos, in company with the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Pinnick alongside NFF’s vice presidents, Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko.
“The ringing of the bell at the closing of business at the Nigeria Stock Exchange floor is a very significant event. It means that corporate Nigeria is warming up to Nigerian football as a result of extensive consultations that we have been making over the past months,” Pinnick said on Wednesday.
It is the first time in history that the Nigeria Stock Exchange had offered a Nigeria football figure such a gesture, and Pinnick says it is the beginning of what would turn out to be a wonderful relationship between corporate Nigeria and Nigerian football.
“We are looking at taking this to a level where even clubs in the Nigeria League will be quoted on the Nigeria Stock Exchange. It is a gradual process but we will get there,” Pinnick stated.
Oliseh’s visit is expected to help the NFF explore ways of generating funds to execute its programmes and further reach out to corporate Nigeria the vision of repositioning Nigerian football under the Pinnick-led board.
“There’s money in football and the Nigerian capital market is one opportunity for the NFF to raise capital when it needs money.
“It is the first time we are having a sports person ring the closing bell of the NSE even though the victorious Golden Eaglets of 1985, who won the U-16 World Cup in China, visited the stock exchange but they did not ring the bell,” an official of the Nigeria Stock Exchange was quoted as saying.