By InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Fast Consumer Moving Goods (FCMG) company, Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc said on Friday it has appoint Joseph Odion Umolu, the present head, legal services and assistant company secretary as its new company secretary with effect from January 1, 2016.
The company said the appointment is coming on the heels of the expected retirement of Alhaji Y. Olalekan Saliu company secretary of Flour Mills with effect from December 31, 2015.
“However, Alhaji Y. Olalekan Saliu shall remain on the board of the company as a non-executive director,” Flour Mills said in a statement with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
Flour Mills says Umolu: holds Masters Degree in Law (LLM) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and has worked with Gocuz Group Ltd as admin/corporate affairs manager, Zik Chuka Obi & Co (Barristers & Solicitors), Lagos State Judiciary among other places before joining the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority where he worked from 2003 to 2004.
He also worked with Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in 2004 as a legal officer in the legal department of the bank and became a manager in 2007. Umolu joined Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc in 2012 rising through the ranks to become the head, legal services/assistant company secretary a position he held until this appointment.
Similarly, the FCMG firm also announced the retirement of James O. Fagbemi as its director effective September 9, 2015.
