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Appointment & Promotions
Meet Abdullahi, new NPA MD HE new Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Mallam Habib Abdullahi, holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the Harvard University USA. He is also Edward Mason Fellow of Harvard Institute of International Development, Harvard University. President Goodluck Jonathan, has Thursday last week constituted a new management team for the NPA led by Abdullahi after the dissolution of the former management team led by Omar Suleiman. Abdullahi is the former acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the authority. Others are Engr. David Omonibeke, Executive Director, Marine and Operations; Mr. Mohammed Sani Saleh, Executive Director, Engineering and Technical Services; and Olumide Oduntan, Executive
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•Mallam Habib Abdullahi, NPA MD Director, Finance and Administration. A statement by Mrs. S.K. Ballah said the new Managing Director, 56, hails from Kano State of Nigeria. He served in different capacities in the state as Direc-
tor of Budget, managing director of some parastatals and also as First Chairman/ Sole Administrator of Kabo Local Government, all in Kano State before joining the services of Nigerian Ports Authority. Earlier, he served as the Chief of Staff to the Speaker, House of Representatives, National Assembly Abuja. His university education was at the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he bagged his first degree in 1978. He also attended the University of Bath and University of East Anglia all in the UK. He served as General Manager, Administration and was later deployed to London as Overseas Representative of the Nigerian Ports Authority, a position he held until December 2011 when he was appointed Ag. Executive Director, Finance and Administration.
UNIDO honours NIPC DG, Bello
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HE United Nations I n d u s t r i a l Development Organisation (UNIDO), has honoured the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Engr. Mustapha Bello with honorary DirectorGeneral of the organisation for his commitment and dedication to the promotion of investment in the country. The Representative and Director, Regional Office, which takes care of Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin Republic and Nigeria, Dr. Patrick M. Kormawa who decorated the Executive Secretary, commended him for his sterling leadership qualities in advancing the economic development of the country through the activities of the Commission on the investment promotion and facilitation. The Regional Director of
Okeke, Afudego, Ogunlowo join Ernst & Young E
RNST & Young has appointed three new Partners in Linus Osita Okeke, Benjamin Afudego and Funmi Ogunlowo in its efforts to strengthen capacity in the Forensic Investigative & Dispute Services (FIDS), Risk Advisory and Assurance business.
Okeke He becomes a Partner in Assurance Services for West Africa with focus onForensic Investigative & Dispute Services. Okeke attended the University of Jos where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Law, emerging the best Law student in the fulltime class. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Law at the University of Benin, graduating as the best student in his class. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993. Okeke started his career with
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the law firm of Messrs Iwelumo & Iwelumo in January 1994 and later joined the then Arthur Andersen (now KPMG Professional Services) and rose through the ranks to become Head of Forensic Services for Anglophone West Africa.
Afudego As a new Partner in Advisory Services, he will focus on Risk Financial Services. Afudego brings to Ernst & Young’s clients over 15 years of world-class experience in governance, risk and controls. He specialises in banking and capital markets and has extensive experience in public sector financial management as well as donor funded projects. Prior to his recent appointment, Afudego was a leading member of the Risk department in Ernst & Young’s Fin a n c i a l Services Organisation (FSO) based in the UK, where he worked for seven years. During this time, he managed a number of high profile internal audit and internal control assignments for FTSE 100 companies, including the top five banks in the UK. He supported leading banks in assessing the effectiveness of sanctions processes & controls and in performing review of risk management functions and also played leading roles on a
•Afudego number of high profile assignments during the recent financial crisis, including managing the payments process for a bank that was in administration. Afudego recently managed the review and design of the target operating model for internal audit and internal control function of a leading bank in Nigeria, including writing the methodologies and manuals. He previously managed the reform of public sector financial management processes for governments of Ghana and Uganda, including the central and local government agencies and re-engineered the business registration process for Ghana. Ogunlowo Ogunlowo is the new Partner in-charge of Diversified Products and Public Sec-
tor in Assurance service line. A 1989 graduate of Accounting and Management from the prestigious ObafemiAwolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, he started his professional career in Accounting with Horwath Dafinone (formerly D.O. Dafinone & Co) in October 1990 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in May 1992. Ogunlowo is also an Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and joined the employment of Ernst & Young in October 2002 as a Manager with responsibility for the audit of various public sector and non-governmental organisations as well as other private companies. He was elevated to the position of a Senior Manager in 2005 and Associate Director in 2008.
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•Engr. Mustapha Bello, Executive Secretary, NIPC UNIDO noted with satisfaction the cordial working relationship existing between the two organisations and the role the NIPC had played in hosting them in their premises at the point of their entry into the country. “UNIDO and NIPC have a very good collaboration and cordial working relationship since our entry into Nigeria through our activities, and this we promised to sustain and strengthen,” he stated. Dr. Kormawa promised his organisation’s readiness to work with the Commission to promote small scale businesses in Nigeria as that is the catalyst for economic development and transformation, stressing that “the visit of NIPC was timely as it coincided with the reviewing process of their ‘Country Framework’ document”, and assured that the Commission’s interest will be taken care of in the programme. The Country Framework documents, he explained, cover three major thematic areas “Poverty reduction programme; Private Sector development and Energy and Environment.” He commended the NIPC for their active role and participations in all programmes organised by UNIDO in time past and promised to continue to assist the Commission in the area of capacity building. Earlier, the Executive Secretary commended the collaboration between the Commission and UNIDO which commenced in 2001 with the Country Service Framework (CSF) agreement in which the agency handled the investment promotion component. C M Y K