Group Urges Regulators, Business Leaders To Advance Governance Standards

The Society for Corporate Governance successful Nigeria (SCGN) has urged regulators, concern leaders, institutions and ecosystem players to rise governance standards crossed sectors.

The nine noted that this determination would fortify fiscal reforms, amended regulatory compliance and heighten the nationalist codification of firm governance.

SCGN further emphasised the request to thrust ethical governance successful a disrupted situation by advancing firm argumentation with stakeholders, thought leaders and organization players to supply solutions to navigate challenges successful firm governance.

The CEO of SCGN, Chioma Mordi, said this treatment volition instrumentality centre signifier astatine the society’s 20th day firm governance conference, scheduled for October 9, 2025, successful Lagos.

“For 20 years, SCGN has remained steadfast successful promoting ethical governance successful Nigeria. This day league is not conscionable a solemnisation of our travel but a telephone to enactment for boards, regulators, and businesses to clasp accountability and resilience successful a rapidly changing world,” she said.

Institutions worldwide are grappling with disruption and rising demands for accountability, truthful conversations astir ethical governance and sustainability are needed to code the dearth of cognition successful a rapidly changing satellite of clime change, biodiversity, and c credits.

She said the milestone lawsuit volition not lone observe the society’s 2 decades of promoting governance standards successful Nigeria but besides convene regulators, committee leaders, and manufacture experts to research applicable strategies for gathering resilient, future-ready institutions.

Themed ‘Strengthening Ethical Governance successful a Disrupted World: Reflections connected the Governance Journey for a Sustainable Future,’ the league volition analyse Nigeria’s governance advancement implicit the past 20 years portion addressing today’s astir pressing question of however institutions stay resilient amid planetary disruption.

The league volition diagnostic insights from a lineup of speakers. Dr Omobola Johnson, erstwhile curate of connection technology, volition present the keynote connected ethical enactment successful a disrupted environment.

She volition beryllium joined by the Director-General of the SEC Nigeria, Dr Emomotimi Agama, GMD/CEO, NGX Group; Temi Popoola and Dr Rabiu Olowo, Executive Secretary/CEO, FRCN.

Discussions volition screen fiscal reforms, regulatory compliance, cross-border practices, committee effectiveness, and the relation of governance successful driving nationalist economical revitalisation.

The league aims to equip directors, executives, and governance professionals with actionable strategies for embedding stronger governance frameworks that animate semipermanent spot and withstand disruption done keynote addresses, sheet dialogues, and sector-wide engagements.

The CEO said this year, “We are besides arrogant to present initiatives specified arsenic the firm governance awards arsenic portion of our day celebration, recognising institutions and leaders who person championed integrity, innovation, and sustainability successful governance.  These awards item the value of celebrating advancement portion mounting higher standards for the future.”

Also speaking, Board member, SCGN, Ms Rabi Isma said, SCGN sustained efforts and the 20-year milestone is simply a reflection of their travel arsenic they consistently prosecute transparency, accountability and sustainability for concern leaders portion noting that respective policies person influenced and provided thought enactment to Nigeria’s firm governance imaginativeness contempt shifting markets and planetary uncertainty.

On his part, president of SCGN, Muhammad Ahmad noted that: “Our 20th Anniversary Conference is simply a level for thought leaders to signifier the aboriginal of governance successful Nigeria. We are bringing unneurotic immoderate of the finest minds to supply applicable insights that volition fortify trust, physique sustainable organisations, and animate the adjacent procreation of leaders.”