NatCom
Development & Investment Limited “NatCom” (trading as ntel) has announced a
key addition to its board and the emergence of elder statesman, accomplished
businessman and respected philanthropist, General TY Danjuma as Chairman.
The
announcement was made on Wednesday, July 27th 2016 following General
Danjuma’s inaugural board meeting. With General Danjuma as board chairman,
former chairman, Dr. Tunde Ayeni, becomes 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, fondly known as ‘the green general’ on account of his environmental
activism, has interests in oil and gas, banking and shipping. A respected
environmentalist and philanthropist, 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.
Commenting
on this key addition to ntel’s board, Kamar Abass, ntel’s CEO,remarked “we are
delighted to have a man of General TY Danjuma’s standing join us. As our new chairman,and
as a shareholder, we welcomehis support as weaddmomentum 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.”
ntel
commenced commercial operations of its 4G/LTE-Advanced network on 08-04-16 in
Lagos and Abuja. Network services in Port Harcourt are scheduled to commence
early in Q4. NatCom projects making investments totalling more than $1billion by
2020.
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