SEC, CBN, Pencom, NAICOM Partner For Increased Financial Inclusion In Nigeria
Caption: Head Awareness Unit, Micro Pensions Department National Pensions Commission (Pencom), Mrs Obiageli Okosi; Head, Research Department, Pencom, Lasbery Lot; Representative of the Acting Director General Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Abdul Bello; and Data Analyst at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Gazali Mohammed; during the Financial Inclusion Sensitisation Programme held in Abuja at the weekend. Ahead of the 2020 target to reduce the number of Nigerians who are still outside its formal financial system, regulators of the nation’s financial services industry at the weekend, again went on a sensitization campaign to selected Abuja neighbourhoods. Speaking at the event in Karshi, Abuja, Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr. Abdul Zubair said the regulators aim to achieve increased level of financial inclusion of Nigerians by the year 2020. The latest move, he continued, followed the huge success recorded in previou...