{"id":8259,"date":"2025-07-27T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:32:43","slug":"finance-minister-inaugurates-new-ndic-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2025\/07\/27\/finance-minister-inaugurates-new-ndic-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Inaugurates New NDIC Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun has inaugurated the new Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr Thompson Oludare Sunday and Executive Director (Operations), Dr Kabir Sabo Katata<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the occasion held at the ministry&#8217;s office in Abuja, the Minister submitted that the NDIC, as a component of the financial safety-net has a crucial role to play in the nation&#8217;s march to economic stability and prosperity.  <\/p>\n<p>He therefore charged the management team to bring their diverse wealth of experience to bear on their new assignment while assuring them of the ministry&#8217;s full support in the task ahead.Responding, <\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by Hawwawu, Head, Communications, and Public Affairs department of the organisation, Mr Sunday, who spoke on behalf of the Management team, expressed appreciation   to President   Bola   Ahmed Tinubu for their appointment <\/p>\n<p>He assured the Minister of the readiness of the management under his leadership to live up to expectations of the President in particular and the nation in general in the discharge of their duties.<\/p>\n<p>The management was later received by the Corporation\u2019s Head Office with a warm welcome by the workforce. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the workers on behalf of the management team,   Mr.   Sunday promised to   work in harmony with   the staff to move the Corporation to the level of high performance. <\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the management\u2019s focus would be based on the public policy objectives, functions, and mandate devolved on the corporation by the enabling law that established it.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Oludare Sunday is a seasoned financial expert with over 30 years of regulatory and supervisory experience. <\/p>\n<p>Having cut his teeth with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 1989, he went ahead to acquire high-end knowledge in Central Banking, spending 24 unbroken years in banking supervision.  <\/p>\n<p>While his vast experience is in the regulation and supervision of licensed institutions, his deep expertise spans corporate governance,   risk management, and   compliance as a veritable tool for ensuring the safety and soundness of institutions. <\/p>\n<p>He is a highly analytical   and cross functional   team worker with a strong interest in   building individual and institutional capacity for transformation and excellence. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s skills and experience were horned by several key responsibilities and special assignments he handled for the apex Bank before his retirement as a director in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director (Operations),  Kabir Sabo Katata, is a quantitative energy strategist and computational finance expert with  strong power trading and risk management experience.   <\/p>\n<p>He   has   over   twenty-eight years\u2019   experience  in  the   design and management  of technically innovative  systems  in  multiple  industries, including telecommunications, IT, energy (petroleum &#038; power), finance, and government. <\/p>\n<p>He is a specialist in sophisticated financial optimization, the application of modern statistical techniques and mathematics to energy, deposit insurance, and banking sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Katata joined the service of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2012 as an Assistant Director in the Research, Policy and International Relations Department and rose to the pinnacle of his career as Director in January 2022, before his new appointment as Executive Director (Operations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun has inaugurated the new Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr Thompson Oludare Sunday and Executive Director (Operations), Dr Kabir Sabo Katata Speaking at the occasion held at the ministry&#8217;s office in Abuja, the Minister submitted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}