Fidelity Bank appoints Isa Inuwa as an Independent Non-Executive Director

Following approval by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Isa Mohammed Inuwa has joined the board of Fidelity Bank Plc as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

The appointment took effect from January 22, 2020.

Company Secretary of Fidelity Bank, Ezinwa Unuigboje, who made this known in a notification to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), shareholders and the investing public, said the Board of Directors of the bank has approved the appointment.

In a citation, the lender stated that Inuwa has multi-industry work experience spanning over 35 years in the banking and oil and gas industries, with a significant portion of time spent in executive and strategic roles covering management, finance, strategy, corporate services, compliance, audit and Information Technology.

He statutorily retired in June 2019 as Chief Operating Officer/Group Executive Director, Corporate Services at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) where he worked for over a decade. He was recruited under a Business Transformation Programme at NNPC in 2005 and served in various roles as General Manager, Budget and Projects, General Manager, Finance, NAPIMS and Group General Manager, Corporate Audit.

While at NNPC, he was seconded to the Nigerian Liquefied and Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) in 2016 as Deputy Managing Director. As the DMD of NLNG, he served on the board of NLNG and NLNG subsidiaries, including Bonny Gas Transport Limited (BGTL) and NLNG Ship Management Limited (NSML).

He was at various times a Member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Management Board (NCDMB), the Petroleum Training Institute, Chairman of Nigerian Pipelines and Products Storage Company Limited (NPSC) and Alternate Chairman of NNPC LNG Limited, amongst others.

In the financial services industry, his experience spans Commercial Banking, Merchant Banking and Development Finance, with requisite knowledge and experience in retail and commercial banking, operations, international trade finance, agricultural finance, treasury and corporate banking. He started out as a banker with Union Bank of Nigeria Plc where he did his mandatory youth service programme and worked at the defunct Bank for Credit and Commerce International (BCCl) and International Merchant Bank (1MB).

Inuwa rose to the pinnacle of the banking profession with his appointment as Managing Director, lntercity Bank Plc, in 1991. Upon leaving Intercity Bank, he worked briefly as a self-employed financial consultant, providing research and advisory services in project finance, process re-engineering, strategy development and public policy impact analysis, before being appointed through a formal selection process, as Executive Director, Operations, Bank of Agriculture (BoA) in 2005. Alhaji Isa Inuwa has an active community and public service life. He was a member of the Presidential Committee on the management of the Excess Crude Account and a Member of the Bureau of Public Enterprises Committee on Reconciliation of Public Sector Debt.