FirstBank Announces The Appointment Of Alhaji Ado Yakubu Wanka As Non-Executive Director

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading
financial services provider, today announced the appointment of
Alhaji Ado Yakubu Wanka as Non-Executive Director.

Speaking on his appointment, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, Chief
Executive Officer, First Bank of Nigeria Limited said, “We are
delighted to welcome Alhaji Ado Yakubu Wanka, to the FirstBank
Board. We are especially excited that he is bringing a combination
of complementary skills and rich experience to the table which will
no doubt enhance the quality of governance towards meeting our
strategic goals.

Alhaji Ado Yakubu Wanka attended Government Secondary School,
Bauchi (1966 – 1970), Federal School of Science, Lagos (1971 –
1973), holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria (1973 – 1977) and an MBA from the same
institution (1982 –1984). He is also an alumnus of the Harvard
Business School and Switzerland’s Institute of Management
Development, Lousanne. Alhaji Wanka served in the National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC) as a graduate assistant with the Department of
Chemical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife.
Thereafter, he started his managerial career as a young process
engineer with Ashaka Cement Company Plc where he rose to the
position of Deputy Production Manager

After completion of his MBA degree, Alhaji Wanka acquired
further managerial competence during his stay with the Northern
Nigeria Development Company (NNDC), Kaduna. During the period, he
participated actively in new business development and monitoring of
NNDC’s quoted and unquoted investments and left as Principal
Investment Executive.

Alhaji Wanka began his banking career in April 1988 with the
then Nigerian International Bank (Citibank Nigeria) where he served
for six months as Deputy Manager. He was with the FSB International
Bank Plc from 1991 to 1997 and rose to become Executive Director.
He assumed duty as the MD/CEO of the then Gamji Bank Limited in
1997, moved to First Bank of Nigeria Plc in 1998 as Executive
Director, where he spent about eight (8) years. In between his
banking career, Alhaji Wanka spent three years in the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) – September 1988 to April
1991 – where he was Acting Head, New Business Development Unit and
later Head, Strategic Planning Unit of the Corporation.

With experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, he served
in various capacities in other organisations, most notably as
Executive Director, Finance and Administration and also, Chairman
of the Board of the Nigeria and Sao Tome Joint Development
Authority (an agency which oversees the commercial exploration of
mineral resources in the Joint Development Zone covering the
overlapping maritime boundary between Nigeria and Sao tome &
Principe).

Alhaji Wanka joined Unity Bank in March 2008 as a Group
Executive Director, initially in charge of Retail Banking and later
Risk Management & Control Directorates. He retired in August
2013, after serving as the Bank’s Managing Director for two (2)
years.

Alhaji Wanka is currently the Chairman, APT Securities and
Funds, APT Pension Fund Managers and Director, Arewa Metal
Containers (ARMECO) Ltd.

Alhaji Wanka is a fellow of Chartered Institute of Bankers of
Nigeria (CIBN); Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) (NIM);
Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSCHE); Institute of
Chartered Management Accountants (ICMA) and Institute of Credit
Administration (ICA). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Nigerian
Chemical Society and a member of the Institute of Directors
(IoD).

Yushau Shuaib Bags NIPR PR Personality of the Year
Award

The founder of PRNigeria^[1]
and author of “An Encounter with the Spymaster,” Mr. Yushau A.
Shuaib has bagged the PR Personality Award from the national
headquarters of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR)
at an event in Lagos.

The President of the Institute, Mallam Mukhtar Sirajo said the
President Award was presented to Shuaib in recognition of his
exemplary contributions towards the advancement of the ideals of
the institute

Mr. Yushau A. Shuaib is a Graduate of Mass-Communication, Bayero
University Kano with a Master’s Degree in Public Relations from the
University of Westminster, London, he is a consummate writer and
crisis-communicator per excellence.

He has practised PR since his university day winning NIPR Best
PR Student in 1992 and later emerged the PR Man of the year in
Kano-Jigawa Chapter in 1995 and Digital PR Personality from Abuja
NIPR Chapter in 2019.

Immediately after his youth service when he won Local, State and
Presidential NYSC awards with automatic employments, he served as
PRO Delta State Government House, Asaba and later Press Secretary
in various Federal Ministries including Information, Finance;
Health; Revenue Commission, and the National Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA).

In the course of his career as a PR person and writer, he has
published over 300 articles in the media. He has consulted for the
Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and provides crisis
communication services to critical institutions including the
Military, Security, Intelligence and Response Agencies.

Through some of his initiatives, especially the PRNigeria^[2] and Economic
Confidential magazine, his firm has consistently won the African PR
Awards in South-Africa 2016/7, Morocco 2017, Botswana 2018 and
Kigali 2019. At the global scene, his firm remains the only PR
agency in Africa to have consistently won IPRA Golden World Award
on Crisis Management in Qatar 2016, Bulgaria 2017, Spain 2018 and
Armenia 2019.

Some of his published books include: “Writings for Media,”
“Online Public Relations- A Case of Nigeria,””Boko Haram Media War:
An Encounter with the Spymaster”while his new Book is titled
“Award-Winning Crisis Communication Strategies” which is due to be
out in January 2020.

By PRNigeria^[3]