Cardoso Assigns Portfolios to 4 Deputy Governors

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Olayemi Cardoso, has assigned portfolios to the apex bank’s four deputy governors – Emem Nnana Usoro, Muhammad Sani Dattijo, Philip Ikeazor and Dr. Bala Bello.

THISDAY learnt last night that Usoro heads the Operations Directorate while Dattijo will take charge of Economic Policy Directorate. Ikeazor is in charge of Financial System Stability (FSS) Directorate, while Bello takes charge of Corporate Services Directorate.

The appointments of Cardoso and the four deputy governors were confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday.

The deputy governors resumed at the CBN headquarters in Abuja yesterday .

Cardoso was nominated by President Bola Tinubu to take over from Mr. Godwin Emefiele who resigned his appointment.

He was at various times Chairman of CITIBANK and also served as Commissioner for Budget and National Planning when Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State,1999 to 2007.

The new CBN governor is the founding chairman and co-chair of Ehingbeti Summit, the Lagos State Economic Summit. He is also a former executive lead at Harvard Kennedy School alumni association.

Usoro is an alumna of Harvard Business School and Lagos Business School, Usoro’s banking career spans over 20 years with experience in Operations, Credit and Marketing, Branch Management, Relationship Management, Corporate and Commercial Banking. Until her appointment, she was UBA’s Group General Manager and the Strategic Business Group (SBG) Head, in Abuja. 

Ikeazor has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry. He holds a BSc. Economics from the University of Buckingham, UK. He is also an Alumnus of Wharton-CEIBS-IESE Business School Global CEO Programme and attended executive programmes at Harvard Business School and Wharton School of Business.

He has held various board positions, notably as the CEO of Keystone Bank Limited, CEO of Ecobank Kenya Limited, Executive Director, Union Bank Nigeria, Director of Union Bank UK PLC, and Director of the Orient Bank Uganda. 

Bello is an industry leader, whose career has spanned Banking, Capital Markets, and Pension Fund Management.

He is a well-respected public official and a renowned accountant. In April 2017, Bello was appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari as the Executive Director of Corporate Services at the Nigerian Export-Import Bank.

Dattijo is an international development expert who served as a policy adviser at the Executive Office of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in New York and also as Commissioner for Budget and Planning in Kaduna State.

He holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics and Policy from the University of Manchester and a second Master’s from Ahmadu Bello University where he studied International Affairs and Diplomacy.