REVEALED: Tinubu’s nominee NOT statutorily qualified to be PenCom DG
Except the Pension Reform Act, 2014 is amended ahead of her confirmation hearing by the senate, Omolola Oloworaran is not statutorily qualified to be the director-general of the National Pension Commission (PenCom).
Announcing the appointment on Saturday, Ajuri Ngelale, the presidential media aide, described Oloworaran as a “finance and banking expert with many years of experience”.
However, there are questions as to whether Oloworaran’s qualifications and experience align with the prescriptions of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014.
Section 26 (1) of the PRA 2014 empowers the president to appoint the director-general of the agency, stating that such appointment will be subject to the confirmation of the senate.
However, section 26 (2)(d) of the act, stipulates that the director-general must “possess a relevant and adequate professional qualification in pension matters with 15 years cognate experience”.
In the last 20 years, Oloworaran’s career path in the private sector has been in the financial industry.
According to her LinkedIn profile, her career has cut across various companies: Renaissance Capital, FDHL GROUP, Stanbic IBTC and First Bank.
Between June 2004 and March 2008, Oloworaran worked at treasury operations, Citi Group, before joining Renaissance, where she rose through the ranks from the position of a senior specialist to finance manager.
Oloworaran left Renaissance in April 2013 to join FDHL Group, where she had a short stint as a consultant — exiting in November of the same year to join Stanbic IBTC as head of global market operations.
Three years later, she became Stanbic IBTC’s head of the international business centre, but left the company for First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) in June 2009 to serve as head of transaction banking operations.
According to her profile on the FBN website, she is the group head of First Shared Services.
From the findings, Oloworaran does not have the requisite experience contained in the PRA to head PenCom.
Source: The Cable
Remembering Shannen Doherty, the Beverly Hills 'badass'
Fans are mourning US actress Shannen Doherty, who has died the age of 53 of cancer.
“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty,” her publicist, Leslie Sloane said.
Doherty enjoyed a screen career spanning four decades as the star of hit TV shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed.
Although Doherty and the characters she played usually seemed to inhabit a glossier, more beautiful world, she was always someone viewers could relate to on screen, and was a self-proclaimed "badass" in real life.
The Memphis-born star began acting as a child with appearances in TV series such as Voyagers, Our House and Father Murphy, before joining the cast of the long-running Little House on the Prairie as Jenny Wilder at the age of 11 in 1982.
Her first major film role came in 1985 with Girls Just Want to Have Fun, which also starred Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt.
In 1990, Doherty landed the biggest role of her career - as Brenda Walsh in the original Beverly Hills, 90210.
The TV series followed a group of teenagers as they dealt with relationship and family issues that were relatable beyond the glamorous Beverly Hills setting.
In recent years, she openly documented her battle with cancer on social media - posting videos of herself exercising alongside the hashtag #cancerslayer.
In November 2023, she said she is committed to battling stage four breast cancer, which had now spread to her bones.
Source: BBC