Gen. TY Danjuma, has been announced on Wednesday as the new Board Chairman by the NatCom Development and Investment Limited, trading as ntel after its inaugural board meeting.
The appointment of General Danjuma as board chairman will relegate erstwhile chairman, Dr. Tunde Ayeni to Vice Chairman.
Other members of the board include Captain Idahosa Okunbo, Abiola Ayeni, Kasheem Shettima, Philip Chukwu, Kola Adesina, John Darlington, Dan Kunle, Babatunde Omotoba and Kamar Abass.
General Danjuma, is a environmentalist and philanthropist also referred to as ‘the green general’ as a result of his environmental activism in oil and gas, banking and shipping.
General Danjuma is a former Chairman of Abuja Green Society who through his own Danjuma Foundation, established in 2009, passionately supports poverty alleviation, education and medical aid initiatives across Nigeria.
General Danjuma brings to the ntel board robust commercial experience covering some three decades in the public and private sectors, following a successful career in the army from where he retired as a three-star General and Chief of Army Staff in 1980. He also served as Minister of Defence in the first term of the civilian administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Speaking on this key addition to ntel’s board, Kamar Abass, ntel’s CEO, said, “we are delighted to have a man of General TY Danjuma’s standing join us. As our new chairman, and as a shareholder, we welcome his support as we add momentum to our growth and development in Nigeria’s telecoms industry”.
“We expect to benefit enormously from General Danjuma’s sterling leadership credentials and, in this way, to build on the excellent work of our immediate past chairman, Dr. Tunde Ayeni, who positioned ntel to deliver the leading Broadband experiences already evidenced in Lagos and Abuja.”
