On Thursday, The Presidency said President Bola Tinubu became the first African President to ring the closing bell at the world’s second-largest stock exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ).

This was disclosed through the Special Adviser of Media & Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale.

Is Tinubu the first?
Checks by Nairametrics reveal that President Tinubu is not the first African President to ring the closing bell at NASDAQ.

On September 21, 2011, President Kikwete of Tanzania rang the closing bell at NASDAQ in the presence of First Ladies Health Ministers, and Global Health Leaders.

President Kikwete rang the bell in honour of Global Health Commitments for Women’s Health and Women’s Cancers at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square.

Here’s an excerpt from NASDAQ’s official website ahead of the bell-ringing ceremony by the Tanzanian President:

“Global Health Leaders will announce Global Health Commitments for Women’s Health and Women’s Cancers at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square.
In honour of the occasion, President Kikwete of Tanzania, First Ladies and Health Ministers, and Global Health Leaders will officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell."

The Verdict

Based on available information, President Bola Tinubu is not the first African President to ring the closing bell at NASDAQ Stock Exchange.

lexy2014:


the problem with Tinubus lying infrastructure is that once it produces one lie, the lie ends up contradicting itself. it doesnt even take time.

look at their lie that UAE had lifted visa ban and return of emirates and etihad.

once they lie, just give it at most one week. the lie will take care of itself

Hakeem66:
So ringing bell is now an achievement, who do us these things?

Feintline:
I dont understand how ringing bell became an achievement.

These are the kind of things you hear when you have a signer of fraud, forgery and everything evil in power.

Government of propaganda by propagandists for propagandists

Shikini:
Lol ... even former President Goodluck Jonathan rang the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2013 without noise. These agbado corn-eater supporters are laughable.

Pls note, that the NYSE is the number stock exchange in the world and much more capitalised than the NASDAQ.

The crack economic team that even accompanied GEJ cannot be compared to those empty-skull sycophants I saw around Tinubu's

KingKO22:

Crying of a loser 😂🤣

NYSE us the number what ?

D most important thing is that Asiwaju is the first Nigeria president to be invited by NASDAQ

Forget whatever Newyork bullshit

KingKO22:

Crying of a loser 😂🤣

NYSE us the number what ?

D most important thing is that Asiwaju is the first Nigeria president to be invited by NASDAQ

Forget whatever Newyork bullshit