By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Godwin Emefiele, new governor of the central bank of Nigeria (CBN), will on Thursday June 05, 2014 unveil his agenda for the plum job as he formerly assumed office today Tuesday June 05, 2014 in Abuja Nigeria.
According to a statement signed by Isaac Okoroafor for director, corporate communications of the CBN, Emefiele is now the 10th indigenous governor in the history of Nigeria’s central bank and would on Thursday June 05, 2014 hold a world press conference to unveil his agenda for the CBN and the people of Nigeria.
The statement said Emefiele, who was cleared by the Senate on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, arrived at the CBN Headquarters at 7.30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, to the warm embrace of the four (4) deputy governors at the bank and expectant staff, led by Sarah Alade, whose tenure as acting governor ended on Monday, June 02, 2014.
At the brief formal handing over ceremony, the new governor thanked the erstwhile acting governor, Alade and the other deputy governors as well as members of the media for gracing his formal assumption of office.
Emefiele, immediate-past group managing director (GMD) of Zenith Bank Plc, will bring along to his new role over 20 years of banking management experience.
He is a 1984 graduate of Finance and an MBA Degree in Finance in 1986, both from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is also an alumnus of Executive Education at Stanford University, Harvard University (2004) and Wharton Graduate School of Business (2005).
