BusinessDay 14 Dec 2017

Thursday 14 December 2017
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BUSINESS DAY
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EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDS
Protecting depositors’ funds
Umaru Ibrahim, mni, the Managing
Director/Chief Executive
Officer of the Nigeria Deposit
Insurance Corporation was appointed
Managing Director/Chief Executive
Officer on the 8th of December 2010.
Since his appointment, he has moved
strongly against insider related credit
in the banking industry in a bid to
improve corporate governance and
reduce the incidence of poor credit
practices in the banking industry. He
has also brought innovation in bank
distress resolution in the country.
Despite a deteriorating economic
environment, NDIC, working closely
with the CBN has ensured stability in
the Nigerian banking industry.
Before his present appointment,
he rose from an Administrative Officer
in the Cabinet Office of the Kano
State Government, to the post of
Permanent Secretary within a period
of ten years due to hard and diligent
work. He served in several Ministries
and Departments until 1989 when
he joined the NDIC. He joined the
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corpora-
Facilitating visa clearance
at the ports of entry
Mohammed Babandede has
improved on the efficiency
of the NIS by blocking
all the avenues for sharp practices,
promoting customer relationships
and generating higher revenue for
government. His pragmatic and
tangible transformation brought
into the management and execution
of the mandate of NIS including
championing Ease of Doing
Business through the introduction
of Visa on Arrival; Harmonized Arrival
and Departure cards to reduce
multiplicity of agencies clearance
at ports of entry; decentralized
administration and issuance of
passport; as well as domestication
of fees in Naira for the payment of
residence permit. He has also enhanced
feedback and information
for NIS publics on NIS website as
well as domestication and operationalisation
of the Executive Order
1-3 for all NIS formations.
He hails from Jigawa State. He obtained
a Bachelor of Arts degree in
History/Islamic Studies and also has
a Masters degree in Law Enforcement
and Criminal Justice. Prior
to his recent appointment, he was
the DCG, Operations & Passports, a
position he attained in January 2014.
He also served as ACG Passport
at the Immigration headquarters
Umaru Ibrahim, mni
Managing Director/CEO
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation
(NDIC)
tion in May 1989 as a Deputy Director
and a Departmental Head in charge of
Financial and Technical Support, one
of the key operational departments of
the Corporation then and rose to his
present position.
Mohammad Babandede
Comptroller-General
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)
between December 2012 and January
2014. He has been awarded as
Member of the Order of the Federal
Republic, MFR. He is reputed for
having many years of exposure to
foreign missions and other MDAs
outside the NIS. He is currently the
longest service top officer in the NIS.
Ensuring conduciveness of Nigeria’s
business environment
Under her leadership, the NIPC
recently launched the first ever
Compendium of Investment Incentives
in Nigeria (the Compendium).
The Compendium is a compilation of
tax, tariff, export and sector based incentives,
approved by Federal Government of
Nigeria and supported by various legislation.
NIPC, through the Compendium,
aims to provide existing and new investors
relevant information on available
incentives with the overall objective of
promoting new and incremental investments
in Nigeria.
Also her reforms at NIPC, in active cooperation
with other strategic ministries,
saw Nigeria move on the global ranking
of the Ease of Doing Business, from 169th
to 145th recently.
She is in regular contact with the Securities
& Exchange Commission, The Nigerian
Stock Exchange and other regulatory
authorities as well as several of Nigeria’s
leading corporations and multinationals
at the senior management levels. A
member of the Nigerian Economic Summit
Group, Sadiku once served as the
chairperson of the Rules and Regulations
sub-Committee of SEC’s Capital Market
Committee.
Before her appointment as Executive
Secretary/CEO of NIPC, she was
the Executive Director of Corporate and
Transactional Banking at Stanbic IBTC
Holdings Plc. She has also served as
Chief Executive of Stanbic IBTC Capital
Limited, Head of Finance Department
of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc. She was re-
Promoting the teaching of specialised courses
through teleconferencing
Since assuming office, Abdul-Raheem
Adebayo Shittu has spearheaded
and presided over pragmatic
and tangible transformations in
the management and execution of the
mandate of the Federal Ministry of Communications
including the establishment
and take-off of the first ICT University in
Nigeria, as well as the implementation of
the Federal Government’s ICT Policy on
Patronage of local ICT entrepreneurs in
ICT products and services.
Furthermore, the Minister and his
team at the Ministry are championing
e-governance practices and procedures
across the various departments and agencies
of the Federal Government in order
to reverse and resolve the ghost worker
syndrome.
In addition, under the Honourable
Minister’s watch, the coordination and
collaboration between the National
Universities Commission (NUC) and
Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC) on the utilisation of tele-conferencing
as a tool for teaching specialised
courses such as Medicine has been better
Yewande Sadiku
Executive Secretary/CEO
Nigerian Investment Promotion
Council (NIPC)
sponsible for the execution of debt and
equity issues, mergers and acquisitions;
divestitures and a financial advisory
assignment handled by IBTC Chartered
Bank Plc. and was also responsible for
its packaging, analysis and execution of
a variety of assignments.
Sadiku holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Industrial Chemistry from the University
of Benin and an MBA from University
of Warwick, United Kingdom. She
started her banking career with the
Nigeria International Bank Ltd., where
she worked from 1992 to 1994.
Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu
Hon. Minister of Communications
implemented and executed.
Abul-Raheem Shittu obtained his first
degree in law(LL.B) at the University of
Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife between 1974 to 1978; and then
attended the Nigerian Law School, Victoria
Island, Lagos. In the course of his
legal career, Adebayo Shittu authored 13
books and made valuable contributions
to the development of ground-breaking
policy papers.