The Institute of Corporate Governance Nigeria (ICGN) is a globally recognized and an integrated national professional body in Nigeria. ICGN is established and well positioned to deliver best in class corporate governance and business ethics standards and practices in Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world. The Institute of Corporate Governance Nigeria was formed by a team of corporate leaders, practitioners, professionals, academics, policy makers and institutions with background in corporate governance, risk management, compliance, finance, banking, insurance, law, economics, management, political economics, medicine, engineering, science and technology. ICGN is registered under the CAM Act CAP 59 of 1990 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to among other things promote global best corporate governance standards and practices both in public and private sectors, through training, certification, research, knowledge sharing and related activities. In achieving these objectives, our approach is inter-disciplinary one.

Recentcorporate governance scandals in many parts of the world, and the resultantfinancial crisis and more intense shareholders and stakeholders’ activism as

well as globalization has made global best corporate governance standards andpractices an imperative to the survival and efficiency of firms and national

economies, particularly those in development and transition.