Cititrust holdings Plc has announced the promotion of Afolabi Martins to Group Executive Director, Finance & Strategy. Prior to the promotion, he was the company’s Group Chief Finance Officer.

Afolabi holds a Bsc in Economics from Lagos State University, MSC Economics from the University of Lagos and M.phil. Development Finance from the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town South Africa.

He is an Associate of the chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and Fellow of Chartered Institute of Accountants of Nigeria.

Afolabi has a cumulative 20 years work experience in the Nigerian financial and capital markets.

He has previously worked with a number of capital market companies, including, Futureview Financial Services Ltd, Standard Alliance Capital and Assets Management and was also Chief Executive Officer of Kinley Securities Ltd.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.

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