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Finance Minister, Wale Edun, Charges New NDIC Management on Performance

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun (3rd left) and the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite pose for a group photo with the newly appointed MD/CEO Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr. Thompson Oludare Sunday (1st left) and Executive Director (Operations) NDIC, Dr. Kabir Sabo Katata (1st right) during their inauguration as the new NDIC Management by the Honourable Minister in Abuja.

The Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun has inaugurated the new Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr. Thompson Oludare Sunday and Executive Director (Operations), Dr. Kabir Sabo Katata at the Ministry of Finance, Abuja.

In his remark during the occasion, the Honourable Minister submitted that the NDIC, as a component of the financial safety-net has a crucial role to play in the nation’s march to economic stability and prosperity.

He therefore charged the Management team to bring their diverse wealth of experience to bear on their new assignment while assuring them of the ministry’s full support in the task ahead.

Responding, Mr. Sunday who spoke on behalf of the Management team, expressed appreciation to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for their appointment. He assured the Hon.Minister of the readiness of the Management under his leadership to live up to expectations of the President in particular and the nation in general in the discharge of their duties.

The Management was later received to the Corporation’s Head Office with a warm welcome by the workforce. Addressing the workers on behalf the Management team, Sunday promised to work in harmony with the staff to move the Corporation to its next level performance.

He stressed that the Management’s focus would be based on the public policy objectives, functions and mandate devolved on the Corporation by the enabling law that established it.

Thompson Oludare Sunday is a seasoned financial expert with over 30 years of regulatory and supervisory experience. Having cut his teeth with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 1989, he went ahead to acquire high-end knowledge in Central Banking, spending 24 unbroken years in banking supervision.

While his vast experience is in the regulation and supervision of licensed institutions, his deep expertise spans corporate governance, risk management and compliance as veritable tool for ensuring the safety and soundness of institutions. He is a highly analytical and cross functional team worker with strong interest in building individual and institutional capacity for transformation and excellence.

Thompson’s skills and experience were horned by several key responsibilities and special assignments he handled for the apex Bank before his retirement as a Director in 2021.

The ED (Operations), Kabir Sabo Katata is a quantitative energy strategist and computational finance expert with strong power trading and risk management experience.

He has over twenty-eight years’ experience in the design and management of technically innovative systems in multiple industries including telecommunications, IT, energy (petroleum & power), finance and government.

He is a specialist in sophisticated financial optimisation, the application of modern statistical techniques and mathematics to energy, deposit insurance and banking sectors.

Dr. Katata joined the service of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2012 as an Assistant Director in the Research, Policy and International Relations Department and rose to the pinnacle of his career as Director in January 2022, before his new appointment as Executive Director (Operations).

 

 

 

 

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