A advisor with the World Financial institution, Urum Eke, on Thursday, rejected President Bola Tinubu’s appointment to function a member of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria Board of Administrators.
Tinubu had, on February 13, forwarded the names of Eke and 4 others for affirmation as members of the board for the CBN.
Nonetheless, throughout the affirmation, the previous Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu,( APC, Abia North ) informed the Senate that Eke, who’s his constituent, had referred to as him on the cellphone to reject the provide, noting that it will battle together with his current job as a advisor with the World Financial institution.
This got here to the fore throughout the Thursday plenary when the Senate started the method for the affirmation of the nominees.
The Senate, nevertheless, has confirmed the appointment of 4 different members of the Board of Administrators of the CBN – Robert Agbede; Ado Yakubu Wanka; Professor Murtala Sabo Sagagi and Mrs. Muslimat Olanike Aliyu.
On this piece, PUNCH On-line highlights 13 information about Eke:
Born on November 20, 1964, Eke attended the Complete Secondary College, Aba and Authorities School, Umuahia, the state capital, for his West African College Certificates and Larger College Certificates respectively.
He obtained a bachelor’s diploma in Political Science from the College of Lagos in 1985.
Afterwards, Eke earned his Grasp in Enterprise Administration in Initiatives Administration Expertise from the Federal College of Expertise, Owerri in 2008.
The 59-year-old is an Alumnus of the celebrated Lagos Enterprise College and the Wharton Enterprise College, amongst others.
Eke is a recipient of Nigeria’s Nationwide Order of Advantage and
Nationwide Honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic.
He started his profession in 1986 with Deloitte Haskins & Sells Worldwide as a senior auditor until 1991.
Eke additional went on to function an Government Director at Diamond Financial institution Plc for 19 years from 1992 – 2011.
Eke, a consummate monetary providers skilled, is a former Group Managing Director at First Financial institution of Nigeria Holdings Plc.
He additionally served as a Non-Government Director on the Boards of FBN Restricted and FBN Service provider Financial institution Restricted.
In 2017, he was appointed to the board of the Nigeria Sovereign Funding Authority (Sovereign Wealth Fund) and served till 2021.
Eke is the Government Chairman, Fairchild Group which contains Fairchild Capital Ltd, Fairchild Base Funding Ltd, Fairchild Ventures Ltd, amongst others.
He’s additionally the Chairman, Board of Administrators of NSIA-LUTH Most cancers Centre, a foremost most cancers therapy centre in West Africa.
Eke has over 35 years of expertise in monetary providers masking auditing, enterprise assurance, consulting, amongst others.
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