All Posts in "Day: January 19, 2024"

NiMET parleys with NIM on training

By Favour Nnabugwu
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) is to partner with the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) on capacity building of its meteorologists, scientists and other staff.
The Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Professor Charles Anosike stated this in his office on Friday, 19th January, 2024, when members of Maitama -Abuja chapter of the institute paid him a courtesy visit.
Welcoming the NIM team led by the chapter Chairman, Engnr. Abdul-Lawal Zubair, Prof. Anosike said; “As a scientific agency, we aim to follow global standards in what we do. In line with the thinking of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), NiMet will support staff of the agency to improve their management and leadership skills. The Honourable Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, SAN, has also harped on training and staff welfare. NiMet is committed to helping the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government to achieve its vision in this regard”.
Continuing, Professor Anosike said; “As a fellow of NIM and a member of the Maitama-Abuja chapter of the institute, I thank the leadership of NIM for the solidarity visit. I am honoured and excited at the same time because I can see collaborative partnerships between NiMet and NIM. NIM can support NiMet in the area of capacity building with emphasis on leadership and management training. This visit is also a good opportunity to invite the NIM leadership to our flagship event, the public presentation of the Seasonal Climate Prediction (SCP) which will hold on Tuesday, 20th February, 2024”.
“NiMet is always interested in innovative partnerships through which the agency can share and widen the distribution of its various weather and climate-related publications. As part of our discussions on collaboration with NIM, I suggest that NIM considers setting up a forum where NiMet meteorologists can share some of the data the agency generates with younger members of NIM and other stakeholders”, Prof. Anosike concluded.
Responding, Engnr. Abdul-Lawal Zubair
congratulated Prof. Anosike on his appointment and assured that the Nigerian Institute of Management will collaborate with NiMet in the areas listed by the DG/CEO.
Highlight of the visit was exchange of gifts between the two institutions, decoration of Prof. Anosike with NIM muffler with a charge  to him to always represent the institute and the branch positively.
Patoma Admin by — January 19, 2024 in Aviation 0
Sovereign Trust Insurance elevates to Board

By Favour Nnabugwu

 

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, a foremost insurance company in the country has announced the elevation of two of its erstwhile General Managers to the position of Executive Directors respectively.

The duo who by their recent elevation will automatically become Board Members of the company are Kayode Adigun who becomes the Executive Director in charge of Finance and Corporate Services while Emmanuel Anikibe is now Executive Director, Technical.
Adigun before now was the General Manager/Divisional Head, Finance and Corporate Services while Anikibe was a Deputy General Manager in the Marketing/Business Development Division.
The two appointments have been ratified by the Board of Directors of the Underwriting Firm and they have both assumed their new roles.
Briefing newsmen, the Chief Spokesperson of the organization, Segun Bankole told the gathering that the Board and Management of the company have so much confidence in the two newly elevated Directors and it is expected that they will bring to bear their consummate wealth of experience in galvanizing the organization to the next level of its growth stage.
Members of Management and Staff have been enjoined to give all the needed support to the new Directors in achieving the overall objective of the company as a leading Brand in the Insurance Industry and a profitable one at that.
The Managing Director/CEO of Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, Mr. Olaotan Soyinka in his congratulatory message to the two Directors emphasized Management’s commitment to succession plan in the organization and also stressed that “the elevation is expected to further strengthen the Board and empower Top Management Team of the company in ensuring that the medium-and-long-term strategic goals of the company are accomplished”.
He equally thanked both of them for their immense contributions to the development and growth of the company in time past and charged them to do more than ever before as the organization forges ahead in the years to come.
Kayode Adigun is a graduate of University of Jos and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. He equally attended Liverpool John Moore University in the UK, where he bagged an MSc in Governance and Finance.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, respectively. He is also an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administration, (ACIS).
He is an Alumnus of Howard University, Washington D.C, USA and the Lagos Business School, (AMP 21), having completed the Advanced Management Programme of the Institution in 2009.
He joined Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc in 1997 and has over 25 years of experience in treasury, corporate finance, accounting, tax, investments, administration, and human resources functions. He is also an expert in corporate governance structure and framework.
Emmanuel Anikibe is charged with the responsibility of supervising and coordinating the operations of the Technical Division of the organization. He is a graduate of insurance from the Faculty of Business administration, University of Lagos.
He also holds an MBA, from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, with specialty in Marketing Management. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) and an alumnus of the prestigious Lagos Business School having completed the Senior Management Programme (SMP) in 2009.
He has at various times attended several technical, management and Leadership courses in the course of his career. He joined Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc in 1996.
His vast years of work experience includes working as an underwriter at Lion of Africa Insurance Company Limited and Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc where he has held several positions spanning from Underwriting, Reinsurance & Claims Administration, Branch operations, Marketing and Business Development
Patoma Admin by — January 19, 2024 in Insurance 0
FAAN to relocate headquarters from Abuja to Lagos, gives reasons

By Favour Nnabugwu

 

 

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN has consented to the directive of the authority to move  it’s corporate headquarters back to Lagos

FAAN gave reason why the directive  of  the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, was in the best interest  of the  organisation to relocate the corporate Headquarters of FAAN from Abuja to its original base, Lagos.

FAAN wishes to inform Nigerians that following wide consultations by the new Management of FAAN with stakeholders, which also involved the Unions, it was agreed that this was in the best interest of the Authority and the country for now for the following reasons:

Those affected by the decision to move the headquarters to Abuja have since returned to Lagos as there is no office space for them in Abuja. It was ill-advised in the first place to move the headquarters to Abuja when there was no single FAAN building in Abuja to accommodate all of them at once.

Having returned to Lagos, the Authority would be liable to pay them DTA (DUTY TOUR ALLOWANCE) because technically they are working OUT OF STATION as their official posting is to ABUJA. The Minister has decided to stop this waste of public resources and rip-off on the public purse.

The other option open to the Authority was abandon the old FAAN building in Lagos to rot away and to use its scarce resources to rent an office space in Abuja for Millions of Naira of public money when in actual fact more than sixty percent of its activities are in Lagos given the huge passenger volume of the Lagos airports. The stakeholders and the Minister decided against that and to save the country this waste.

The Minister has rolled out plans to get concessionaires to build befitting offices for the Authority in Lagos and Abuja and until that is done, the Authority will continue to manage its old building in Lagos that can accommodate all its Directors and senior officials for now.
Abuja continues to have full operational offices and the Authority has not scaled down operations in Abuja one bit. It is just the technical decision of where the Authority has its ‘corporate headquarters’ that has been taken without affecting the structure of operations as they are for now in both cities.
 ⁠In the near future, when befitting  corporate buildings have been built for the Authority in both Lagos and Abuja, a final decision will be taken as to the location of the permanent headquarters, depending on the exigencies of the time.
 The Authority wishes to assure members of the public that it will continue to act in the best interest of the public and the country.
The Honourable Minister is committed to taking decisions that are in the best interest of the country, especially as it concerns public funds and will not yield to ethnic or sectional sentiments that will derail this commitment’
Patoma Admin by — January 19, 2024 in Aviation 0