President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Sarah Omotunde Alade as his Special Adviser on Finance and the Economy.
The new office is domiciled in the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Garba Shehu Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity said in a mailed statement on Tuesday.
Alade, who holds a BSc (Economics) and PhD in Management Science (Operations Research), retired from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as Deputy Governor in 2017 after spending 23 years in the apex bank.
Appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan, she also acted briefly in 2014 as the CBN Governor during the suspension of Lamido Sanusi from office.
