achieving poverty reduction, employment generation and wealth creation through entrepreneurial, social and economic development.  Capital Market Development: Irrespective of considerable resources invested by the Federal Government of Nigeria towards developing the capital market and bolstering investor confidence through effective regulation, the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment into the country remained unsatisfactory. In order to expose the opportunities that still abound and further develop the market, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Central Bank of Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Finance and Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, collaborated to host an exclusive investment forum Tagged ‘Project 50’ on 31st October, 2011. The forum provided a platform for the country’s top government functionaries, business leaders, renowned global investors and prominent economic/business journalists to deliberate on the Nigerian Capital Market in the context of the country’s development aspirations, fashion out creative pathways that will propel markets into the future. The event drew attention to government interventions for engendering market integrity and posturing for a truly robust and well regulated market. The major objectives of the forum are to:  share Nigeria’s market regulation scorecard with the investment community;  identify and assess latent regulatory and systemic constraints which could potentially undermine market growth, explore creative solutions to such, and suggest modalities for implementation;  draw attention to market interventions targeted at enhancing market integrity and high level of compliance with regulatory provisions; and  create a platform for all market stakeholders to interact with a view to galvanizing the market for growth. The project is expected to make the following impacts on the Nigerian Capital Market:  increase capital inflow fuelled by strengthened investor confidence.  upswing in market capitalization as trading volumes grow; 58