The board of directors of Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) has approved the appointment of Abdulhamid Aliyu and Victor Abimbola Olaiya as non-executive directors to replace the retired board members with effect from January 1, 2024.
This was made known in a statement on the Nigerian Exchange Limited. The appointment follows the retirement from the board of Mohammed Umar (non-executive director), Sunday Nwosu, (independent non-executive director), and Solagbade Alabi (non-executive director) with effect from December 31, 2023.
Aliyu has a BSc in Economics degree from the University of Maiduguri in 1987. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and a Dealing Clerk of the Nigerian Exchange, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), a Fellow of the Institute of Management Specialist (UK) and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants.
He was the manager in charge of investment at HB Investment & Finance Limited 1989, the GM/COO of Fairholme Investment (Nig.) Limited 2000, deputy manager/head capital market at Alpha Securities Limited/Alpha Merchant Bank 1993, country director at Agrid Nigeria Limited 2007.
Olaiya obtained an OND in Mechanical Engineering from Yaba College of Technology in 1977, a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ife in 1981, and an MBA in Management from the University of Lagos in 1988.
He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Nigeria Society of Engineers, and the Nigerian Institute of Management.
He had previously worked as a data enumerator/supervisor at the Federal Office of Statistics. He has gained three decades of extensive experience in the Oil and gas industry with Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN).
