The Nigerian Stock Exchange has said it would continue to ensure vibrancy in the nation’s capital market though introduction of a variety of tradable instruments.

Speaking at the Exchange recently, the NSE president, Oba Otudeko, said self regulator organisation (SRO) would not relent on its efforts in bringing new instruments that would sustain the vibrant nature of the market. He added that though the market had had its own share of the global economic meltdown, with the market capitalisation coming down to as low as N4 trillion this year, it still remains the most robust capital market on the continent of Africa in terms of returns to investors.

He noted that the market has bounced back from the impact of the meltdown adding that there was no other place it would go than up. He urged investors to be lively to the market, saying that their attitude also determines what happens in the market. “The market is awake to the market because you get what you put into life”, he said.

Otudeko also noted that various government bond issues recently approved the market would be more vibrant, adding that the market had also been playing its role successfully in raising capital for governments in the country. According to him, the market would continue to play its part in the development of the economy.

“We stand for a very vibrant market and a vibrant market can only be in place when products are brought into it. So, if we continue to have large volume of new issues as we have just approved recently, the market will benefit from it”, he said.

He urged more states in the country to come and use the opportunity offered by the market in raising long term funds for their development prices.