Appointments

The United Nations – UN has reappointed Amina Mohammed as the Deputy Secretary-General. This was announced in a statement released by the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres. She will continue her role as the Deputy Secretary-General in a second term. Her leadership aided the UN’s conceptual transformation, which member nations…

This week, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, appointed economic expert Doyin Salami as his chief economic adviser, six years after the country’s economy took taken a spiral downturn. Under the Buhari administration, Nigerians have experienced many economic failures, including two recessions, a high debt profile, double-digit inflation, and a forex crisis.…

Nigeria’s leading hospitality brand, Transcorp Hotels Plc has appointed Bolanle Onagoruwa as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Bolanle Onagoruwa is the CEO of ENL Consortium Ltd, a specialist in infrastructure development in Nigeria and a previous acting CEO at Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company. She has also made prominent footprints in commercial…

Three Nigerians, Abubakar Nur Khalil, Obi Nwosu, and Ojoma Ochai, have been appointed by Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey to the Board of his Bitcoin Trust Fund (BTrust).  The fund is expected to be used for bitcoin development in Africa and India. A South African, Carla Kirk-Cohen, was…

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO and passed the baton to Parag Agrawal, a 37-year-old immigrant from India who joined the company as an engineer and rose to the position of chief technology officer before stepping into the limelight as the company’s frontman. On Monday, Jack Tweeted…