NATCOM Development & Investment Limited - trading as Ntel, has announced a key addition to its board and the emergence of elder statesman and accomplished businessman.
Gen. TY Danjuma
In the wake of a strategic and significant investment in Ntel, an elder statesman, accomplished businessman and respected philanthropist, General T.Y Danjuma, has been named as Chairman of the NATCOM Development & Investment Limited 'NatCom' (trading as Ntel), yesterday following an inaugural board meeting.
According to
Daily Sun, the respected environmentalist, Danjuma, fondly known as
‘the green general’ on account of his environmental activism, has interests in oil and gas, banking and shipping.
He was Chairman of Abuja Green Society and 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.
Olatunde Ayeni, lawyer, investor, businessman, key promoter of NTEL was until yesterday the Chairman of the Board, and is now the Vice Chairman.
Other members of the Board include; Capt. Idahosa Okunbor, Biola Ayeni, Kasheem Shettima, Phil Chukwu, Kola Adesina, John Darlington, Dan Kunle and Tunde Omotoba.
Commenting on this key addition to the board, Kamar Abass, NTEL’s CEO, remarked “we are delighted to have a man of General T.Y. 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.”