By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)- Oil services firm, Caverton Offshore Support Group on Monday announced the appointment of Amaka Obiora as its new company secretary, the company said in its corporate disclosure to the Nigerian bourse.

According to Caverton, this is coming on the heels of its board of directors’ (BOD) meeting held on 15 September 2014 in Lagos Nigeria.

The company appointed Obiora in place of Module Omojafor who was removed as the company secretary.

Caverton said Obiora is a lawyer with over 13 years of experience. She holds an LLB (Hon) degree from the University of Jos, Plateau State and an LLM from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa. She was enrolled as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2001.

The oil services firm affirmed that Obiora began her working career with a brief stint at Idigbe & Idigbe, a Law Firm, before she moved to Ekocorp Plc, owner of Eko Hospital. She later worked with United Bank for Africa where she held several strategic positions rising to become the group company secretary/head of legal & compliance of UBA Capital Plc before the divestment of the bank from all non-commercial banking businesses in compliance with the CBN directive.

She was on this position at UBA Capital Plc before her current appointment with Caverton Offshore Group Plc.