Buhari Reappoints Kuru as AMCON MD - Blackcod Asset Management Limited

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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday reestablished the arrangement of Mr. Ahmed Kuru as the Managing Director of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

He likewise reappointed Mr. Eberechukwu Uneze and Mr. Aminu Ismail as chief heads of the enterprise for a last term of five years.

Buhari additionally named Mr. Bello Hassan and Mr. Mustapha Ibrahim as the Managing Director and Executive Director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).

While Hassan will succeed Mr. Umaru Ibrahim, Ibrahim will succeed Mr. Aghatise Erediuwa whose subsequent terms will end on December 8, 2020, as Managing Director and Executive Director (Operations) individually.

An assertion by an official representative, Malam Garba Shehu, said the president, in discrete letters to the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, requested that the Senate affirm the designations.

As indicated by Shehu, while AMCON assignments were made in accordance with Section 10(1) of the AMCON Act 2010, those of NDIC were made in consistence with Sections 5(4) and 8(3) of the NDIC Act 2010.

He additionally said the selections of Hon. Omolola Abiola-Edewor as Executive Director (Corporate Services) in the NDIC stays substantial until her second and last term closes on January 24, 2022.