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CBN appoints Hakama Sidi Ali as new head of communication

Hakama Ali Sidi

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appointed Hakama Sidi Ali, a public relations practitioner, as the new acting director of corporate communications.

Ali is a recognised member of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), who served as deputy director in the same department at the Bank before her latest appointment.

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According to a report NIPR has for years sustained the campaign to stop government agencies, individuals and corporate organisations from the illegal practice of appointing non-professionals and quacks as spokespersons.

She is a 1992 graduate of the Bayero University, Kano, where she bagged a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication.

Furthermore, Ali has an MSc in Mass Communication and PGDE in English Language.