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Jaiz Bank Plc (the Bank) hereby notifies the
General Public of the appointment of Mrs. Aisha Waziri Umar as an Independent
Non-Executive Director; Dr. Abdullateef Bello as an Independent Non-Executive
Director; and Dr. Sirajo Salisu as an Executive Director of the Bank with
effect from October 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 respectively. The appointments
have been approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Mrs. Aisha Waziri Umar is a Legal Practitioner & Notary Public with over 23 years' experience across multiple sectors including law, banking, finance, public sector policy and administration.
She is the founder of Inara Foundation, a
non-governmental organization assisting victims of violence in the northeast of
Nigeria.
Mrs. Umar is an advocate and promoter of special
education in Nigeria and the proprietor of the Centre for Children with Special
Needs in Abuja, a special school that caters for the learning needs of children
and adolescents with physical and/or learning difficulties. She is a partner at
Prodiverse Global, a legal and business advisory firm in Abuja
Mrs. Umar is a 1987 graduate of Law from the
University of Buckingham, England, Masters of laws Degree (University of
London) and Post-Graduate Diploma in Global Business from Oxford University,
Said Business School England. She is currently a student at the University of
West Scotland, researching Nigeria's engagement with the WTO (World Trade
Organisation) Dispute Settlement system.
Dr. Abdullateef Bello received his M.Sc. and Ph.D.
in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford (U.K). He was the recipient
of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, which enabled him to complete his
studies at Oxford.
Dr. Bello has published extensively in leading
international journals - including International Research Journal of Finance
and Economics, The Statistician; Computational Statistics and Data Analysis;
Statistics in Medicine; Biometrical Journal; Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Method; Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation; and
Australian Journal of Statistics. He has also contributed a number of short
papers in Bulletins and magazines worldwide. In the late '80s and early '90s,
Dr. Bello served as a Lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Akure,
Nigeria (1987-88) and a Computational Statistician with the Numerical
Algorithms Group (NAG, UK) (1992-1994). In August 1994, he joined the young
professional programme of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and worked for 20
years in the Economic Research and Policy Department where he eventually
retired as Principal Statistician.
Dr. Sirajo Salisu is a Certified Risk Manager
(CRM), Fellow Institute of Credit Administration (FICA) and Honorary Senior
Member Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
Sirajo is a 1991 B.Sc. Economics graduate from
Bayero University Kano, Msc Monetary Economics (University of Port Harcourt)
and Ph.D Agricultural Economics from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi.
Sirajo also obtained his second Masters Degree on Islamic Banking and Finance
from Bayero University Kano.
Sirajo has 28 years practical banking experience with |! years at Top Management Level. He started his banking career in 1992 with Inland Bank Plc as a Supervisor and rose to Assistant General Manager in 2009 with First Inland Bank Plc, where he held various Managerial Positions in both Operations, Credit Administration and Business Development including Regional Manager FCT Abuja in 2007.
In 2009, he was appointed Managing Director/CEO Arab Gambian Islamic Bank (AGIB), a position he held for Six (6) years till January 2015.
Sirajo joined Jaiz Bank Plc in 2016 and served as
the Regional Manager South while supervising the Treasury Department of the
Bank. In 2018, he was appointed as the Chief Risk Officer of the Bank a
position which he would hold before assuming his position as an Executive Director
of the Bank.
Sirajo has attended several Management and Islamic
Banking Courses in and outside Nigeria as a participant and/or a speaker. He is
an Alumnus of the prestigious Lagos Business School (SMP 33) and Madinah
Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (PALM 1), Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.
The Board of Jaiz Bank Plc is pleased with the appointments and looks forward to working with the Directors.
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