Dangote Industries Restricted and the Botswana Inventory Trade (BSE) have recommended Nigerian Trade Team (NGX Team) for bringing African exchanges in combination to enlarge cross-border funding alternatives in the course of the ongoing roadshow for the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE be offering.
The commendation got here on Wednesday at an investor engagement in Gaborone, following an previous engagement in Nairobi, Kenya.
The roadshow paperwork a part of NGX Team’s wider initiative to deepen collaboration amongst African exchanges and widen get right of entry to to funding alternatives around the continent.
The Team Leader Monetary Officer of Dangote Industries Restricted, Murat Erden, praised NGX Team, beneath the management of Team Chairman, Alhaji Umaru Kwairanga, and Team Managing Director/Leader Government Officer, Temi Popoola, for galvanising African exchanges across the initiative, which started with an engagement convened via NGX Team in Lagos in April 2026.
He additionally highlighted the position of virtual innovation in broadening get right of entry to to the be offering, bringing up the addition of WhatsApp to NGX Make investments, and said the partnership between NGX Team and taking part exchanges in attaining traders throughout their respective markets.
The Leader Government Officer of the BSE, Aobakwe Aupa Monyatsi, additionally welcomed the collaboration, highlighting the worth of partnerships amongst African exchanges and the chance to widen participation via encouraging further markets to sign up for the initiative.
On the previous engagement in Nairobi, President and Leader Government of Dangote Industries Restricted, Aliko Dangote, lauded Kwairanga and Popoola for his or her position in advancing collaboration amongst African capital-market establishments.
He highlighted how more potent ties between exchanges may just allow firms to lift capital throughout a couple of markets reasonably than being restricted to their house markets. Mentioning the deliberate refinery in Mokowe-Lamu, Kenya, for instance, he pointed to the possibility of companies running throughout Africa to listing in multiple marketplace.
NGX Team Chairman, Kwairanga, mentioned: “Our imaginative and prescient is to construct more potent connections amongst African capital markets, making it more uncomplicated for companies to get right of entry to capital and for traders to take part in alternatives around the continent. The collaboration across the Dangote Refinery be offering demonstrates what African exchanges can reach after we paintings in combination in opposition to a shared function.”
Team Managing Director/Leader Government Officer, Popoola, has in a similar fashion emphasized the significance of translating continental ambition into sensible partnerships. He mentioned: “After we started this engagement, our function was once continental: to convey African exchanges in combination and discover how we will be able to create more potent connections between African capital markets.”
NGX Make investments, NGX Team’s digital public-offering platform, helps subscriptions thru greater than 180 distribution channels, together with stockbrokers, banks and fintech firms. The addition of WhatsApp as an get right of entry to channel additional expands the techniques traders can get right of entry to the be offering.
The roadshow continues with engagements on the Egyptian Trade (EGX) and the Ethiopian Securities Trade (ESX), extending the initiative’s achieve and growing additional alternatives for African exchanges to collaborate on cross-border funding.