OUR CBN GOVERNOR DESIGNATE

Its no longer news  that Mr Lamido Sanusi has been suspended as the CBN Governor and that Mr Godwin Emefiele has been confirmed by the Nigerian Senate as the new CBN Governor pending the expiration of mr lamido’s tenure in June 2014. Though  senate’s spokesman Sanator  Enyinnaya Alabire said  he shall start performing his duties to avoid lapses in the system .

Mr Emefiele who  hails from Agbor in Delta state is a banker of “international” repute having spent well over  twenty –six years in the sector of which  nineteen years has been with Zenith Bank plc. He has been a part of the management team of the bank since inception.He served as the executive director in charge of cooporate banking,treasury,financial  control and strategic planning.He later served as the managing director of the bank in 2001.He was then appointed as the Chief executive officer  and Group Managing director of the bank.in August 2010. Before Mr Emefiele commenced his banking career, he lectured  finance and insurance in his alma mata The university of Nigeria Nsukka and later at the university of Port Harcourt.  He once served as the director of  ACCION micro finance bank  Ltd.   Mr Emefiele holds a Bsc(1984) and MBA(1986) degree in Finance  form the University Of Nigeria Nssuka.He is also an alumnus of Executive education from Stanford University,Havard University(2004) and Wharton Graduate school of business(2005).where he took courses in negotiation, service excellence,critical  thinking, leading change and strategy.

With this manner of pedegree, is he really the man we need to manage our prestigeous apex bank ???

The future has all the answers.