By Ndubuisi Francis
The nation’s wholesale development finance institution, Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), has announced the appointment of Mrs. Ijeoma Ozulumba and Mr. Kyari Abba Kyari as Executive Director and Independent Non-Executive Director respectively, on the board of the bank.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Shehu Yahaya, who made the disclosure, noted that the appointment of Ozulumba and Kyari would further strengthen DBN’s vision to provide adequate and sustainable financing to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across the country.
In a statement issued by the bank, the board chairman maintained that the organisation would continually uphold the highest standards of corporate governance, which have kept the bank on a steady trajectory of progress.
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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) on Wednesday set up a steering committee for NGF-NESG Economic Roundtable (NNER).
Members of corporate Nigeria inaugurated into the committee are Asue Ighodalo (co-chair); Foluso Philips of PCL; Transinvestment’s Kyari Bukar; Amina Maina of MRS Oil; Udeme Ufot of SO&U; MainOne Cable founder Funke Opeke and Chairman of the GIG Group, Chidi Ajaere, who is the youngest member of the team.
Governors appointed into the steering committee of NGF-NESG Economic Roundtable are: Kayode Fayemi (co-chair); Nasir El-Rufai (Ekiti); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa); Ifeanyi Okowa(Delta) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi).
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is to receive the recommendations of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group on how to revamp the economy soon, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said on Tuesday.
She disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja where the NESG presented the recommendations that were put together from its 26th National Economic Summit.
“We will transmit the recommendations to the President and in deed make the report of this summit available to the Federal Government,” Ahmed stated.
She further stated that the government would put in place policies that would ensure the implementation of the recommendations in ministries, departments and agencies.
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