The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has partnered Sportspro Nigeria, to initiate a Sports business capacity development programme in recognition of the potential inherent in the development of sports as an industry in Nigeria.
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 Mr. Jim Pulcrano, Member of the EMBA Teaching Team and Former Executive Director at IMD Business School, Switzerland (One of the topmost business schools in the world) delivering the Key note 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, Mr. Jim Palcrano 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.
