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2018 Pearl Awards To Hold On 25th November, 2018

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Friday, October 19, 2018 9.05PM / Bukola Akinyele, Proshare WebTV

Nigeria’s leading capital market awards ceremony “The Pearl Awards” will hold its 2018 edition on Sunday November 25^th at Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos.

This was disclosed at the press conference today with a cross-section of market correspondents.

In his opening remarks, the Chairman of the PEARL Awards Board Dr. Faruk Umar said the press conference was to formally give a briefing on the Nominees for the 2018 PEARL Awards.

The President and CEO of the Pearl Awards Mr Tayo Orekoya FCA, said the event marked the second time that the media will be invited for PEARL Awards related activities.

He said it was another opportunity to recognize & reward outstanding corporate performances, in continuation of its selfless service to the Nigerian Capital Market and the national economy over the past 23 years.

Instituted in May, 1995 PEARL Awards according to him has over the years organized with finesse the Awards Nite annually as part of its contribution to the growth of the capital market in Nigeria.

“Since inception and to date, we have been guided by the principles of fairness, transparency and objectivity in our selection process while our scientific approach in determining nominee companies remains unassailable” Orekoya said.

The theme for this 2018 edition is “Sustaining the Winning Edge”. This is in realization of the need to recognize and reward companies that, in spite of the challenges in the operating environment, local and international, have continued on the winning edge, outperforming others and emerging leaders, deserving of honour in our capital market.

The Pearl Awards President & CEO shared that the theme for the 2018 edition was “Sustaining the Winning Edge” and said it is in realization of the need to recognize and reward companies that, in spite of the challenges in the operating environment, local and international, have continued on the winning edge, outperforming others and emerging leaders, deserving of honour in the capital market.

He was convinced that this will go a long way to compliment the efforts of the regulatory authorities towards returning the market to the desired path of sustainable growth and market development.

Speaking further Orekoya said the PEARL Awards remains the only Awards in this part of the world that identifies and rewards quoted companies based on empirical data. This is the uniqueness of the Awards, which earned it the endorsement 15 years ago, precisely in 2003 by the apex capital market regulatory authority, the Securities & Exchange Commission.

For the 2018 PEARL Awards, recognitions, honours and Awards shall be in three main categories as listed below:

Main competitive Awards Category

Sectoral Leadership Awards
Market Excellence Awards
Overall Highest Award [The PEARL of the Nigerian Stock Market]

Honourary Awards Category

PEARL Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of the Year Award
Outstanding Honourary Award for the Capital Market Development
Capital Market journalist of the Year Award
Media Award for the Capital Market Reporting

Special Recognition Awards Category

Issuing House of the Year Award
Stockbroking Firm of the Year Award
Good Corporate Governance Award

The 2018 Awards Nite, promises to be as much a glamorous edition in the line of previous editions. The event is being packaged with special features and innovations to be a remarkable night of excellence and glamour, where captains of commerce and industries and major stakeholders of our economy will savour the joy of rewarding excellent operational performance of quoted companies and other capital market players in Nigeria.

The nominees for the 2018 PEARL Awards in no particular order are as follows:

Sectorial Leadership Awards

AGRICULTURE