President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, approved the appointment of eight news presidential aides to advise him on keys areas of the governance.
Theliberationnews reported that their appointments were contained in a press statement issued by Abiodun Oladunjoye, the State House Director of Information.
Theliberationnews brings your their respective resume:
Wale Edun Special Adviser on Monetary Policies
Wale Edun has had a successful career in finance, both at home and abroad.
He was the Head of Treasury and Deputy Head of Corporate Finance at Chase Merchant Bank, where he oversaw the bank’s Treasury and Money Market operations, as well as Capital Market and Financial Advisory operations on behalf of big multinational corporations’ local subsidiaries and affiliates.
During his stay at Chase, he obtained worldwide exposure while on secondment to the Wall Street businesses of Lehman Brothers and Chase Manhattan Capital Markets Corporation in New York, USA.
From 1980 until 1986, he worked at Chase Merchant Bank (later Continental) in Lagos.
It is worth noting that he has over twenty-five years of national and international expertise in merchant banking, corporate finance, economics, and international finance.
He joined the World Bank/IFC in Washington, DC, in September 1986, as part of the distinguished Young Professionals program.
Mr Edun worked at the World Bank on economic and financial packages for various Latin American and Caribbean countries, including the Dominican Republic and Trinidad, as well as in the Far East with Indonesia and India.
He has been the Chairman of Chapel Hill Denham Group since March 2008. In 1989, he returned to Nigeria as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stanbic IBTC Plc (formerly Investment Banking & Trust Company Limited).
He established Denham Management Limited in 1994. He also sits on the boards of several additional businesses.
In 1999, he was appointed as Lagos State’s Honourable Commissioner for Finance, a position he held for an unprecedented two terms under Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
His previous experience includes working for the World Bank/International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC, where he was involved in assignments in India, the Caribbean, and East Asia, among other places.
In Nigeria, Wale also worked in merchant banking. He is a director of numerous other private companies and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ogoni Trust Fund for the Environmental Clean-up of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
Dr Salma Ibrahim Anas, Special Adviser for Health
Dr Salma Anas-Kolo, a product of Shehu Garbai Primary School and Government Girls College, Maiduguri, is a public health specialist, who served as the Borno State Commissioner for Health from 2011 to 2015.
During her tenure, she focused on providing healthcare services to vulnerable populations affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.
She established rehabilitation centres that offered trauma management, psycho-social support, and counselling for women and girls affected by the insurgency.
Mr Nuhu Ribadu, Special Adviser for Security
Nuhu Ribadu is a former Nigerian police officer and politician renowned for his anti-corruption efforts.
He served as the pioneer Executive Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), where he played a significant role in countering corruption and fraud.
Ribadu later became the Chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Task Force and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development.
Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser for Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy
Dele Alake is a renowned Nigerian journalist, activist, and technocrat. He previously served as the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, during the tenure of Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Alake played a significant role in Nigerian politics, notably as the communication advisor and confidant of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the winner of the annulled June 12 presidential election in 1993.
He also served as the director of Media and Communication for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, contributing to General Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the 2015 presidential election.
Mr John Ugochukwu Uwajumogu, Special Adviser for Industry, Trade, and Investment
Mr Yau Darazo, Special Adviser for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs
Yau Darazo was a former Special Adviser on Special Duties to former President Muhammadu Buhari.
He is an Indigene of Darazo local government, Bauchi State and a Kaduna-based technocrat cum politician.
Mrs Olu Verheijen, Special Adviser for Energy
She has nearly 20 years’ experience in the gas and renewables sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa, and is currently Managing Director at Latimer Energy, a consulting firm advising clients on value optimization in acquisition, development and management of energy assets.
Previously, she was a Partner at Persistent, an early stage investment firm with a pan-African portfolio of distributed renewables companies, a Deal Lead at Shell and advised on gas commercialization and M&A transactions, and worked for Moody’s Investors Service in New York.
Olu is the Founder/CEO of BFA Foundation which funds scholarships for women and other disadvantaged groups to expand their career advancement opportunities in high growth sectors, including the energy sector.
She is also an angel investor across various sectors and serves as a Trustee of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association of Nigeria.
She has a BA from Long Island University and Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Mr Zachaeus Adedeji, Special Adviser for Revenue
Zacch Adelabu Adedeji is an astute accountant, corporate tax and public finance development expert. He has over 15 years of experience in corporate accounting, public service administration and public service advisory for a corporate multinational, state governments and the Federal Government of Nigeria.
He was a one-term Commissioner for Finance in Oyo State, Southwest, Nigeria between the year 2011 and 2015 under the administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi.
Among his remarkable achievements in the state include leading a team of less than 50 personnel to institute a Medium-Term Financial (MTF) strategy for the overall framework of Financial and Budgetary management of the state. This resulted in a financial reporting excellence resulting in sustainable growth in cash flow for recurrent expenditure and financing Capital expenditure such as the timely funding of the construction of over 200 roads, bridges and the execution of road repairs across the 33 Local Governments.
Other significant feats include the implementation of an N19,000 minimum wage payment from N7,500 and addition of a 13th-month salary for civil servants in the state and an annual budgetary savings of N7.2 Billion from state finance process efficiencies.
He holds a record of not incurring a new debt for the state while in office as well as reducing the state’s debt exposure by 50%.
He is the co-founder and managing partner of RTR, a financial consulting firm that provides financial advisory and policy development services to public administrators and private institutions in West Africa.
He holds a first class degree in Accounting from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and a certificate in Comparative Tax Policy and Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
