Our Board

AMCON's leadership exemplifies the very best financial professionals of high repute, creating a unique blend of asset management talent and experience.

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  Emily Chidinma Osuji, FCIB
  Non-Executive Director
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  Emily Chidinma Osuji, FCIB, was a pioneer staff member of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). She rose through the ranks, starting as a Management Assistant and rising to the rank of Director. She was later appointed Executive Director, Corporate Services, a position she held until her appointment to the Board of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) as a Non-Executive Director. She obtained a Division One in the West African School Certificate Examinations, a Second Class (Upper Division) degree in Sociology from the University of Maiduguri, and an MBA (Finance) degree in 1995 from the University of Lagos.

  She has attended several leadership development programmes, including the Management Development programs of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, Digital Transformation leadership at the INSEAD in France, the Deposit Insurance School of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA, and the Leadership Development Programme of the Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA), UK. Mrs. Osuji also attended the Bank Management School of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Arlington, Virginia, USA, and the Authentic Leadership Development programs of the Harvard Business School.

  During her over three decades of service to the NDIC, Mrs Osuji worked in several departments, gaining significant knowledge of all vital aspects of the Corporation’s operations. She is a Fellow of the following institutes: The Chartered Institute of Bankers, the Nigerian Institute of Management, and the Association of Enterprise Risk Management Professionals.

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  Mr. Sule Yusuf Tegina
  Non-Executive Director
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  Mr. Sule Yusuf Tegina was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) by the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR. Sule Yusuf Tegina served as a Director in the Federal Ministry of Finance (Director - Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit).

  An accountant by profession, Mr. Sule Yusuf Tegina is a Fellow of the Certified National Accountants; a member of the Institute of Finance and Control; a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified System Accountant and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

  His experience in the Federal Civil Service spans over 30 years as an Accountant, Financial Manager, and Internal Auditor in financial reporting, financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. He is also well-grounded in issues of financial compliance, risk management, internal control, strategic financial planning, collaboration, and leadership.

  He began his career in the core Federal Civil Service as a principal accountant under the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF). He also served in various ministries in different capacities, such as the Ministry of Police Affairs, Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Ministry of Justice, Nigeria Football Federation, Federal Ministry of Education, and many more. Before joining the Federal Civil Service, Tegina had worked as an Executive Officer in the private sector. He has recently been appointed the Director Finance & Accounts (State House), Abuja.

  As a dynamic and proactive leader, he also oversees the Office of the Executive Secretary in acting capacity under the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, ensuring compliance with Financial Regulations and Accounting Codes by all staff under his control and supervision.

  Born December 28, 1965, Mr. Tegina hails from Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State and is happily married. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 1989 from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He also obtained a Masters degree in Business Administration from the same institution, in 2002.

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  Ibrahim Yahaya, FCA
  Non-Executive Director
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  Ibrahim Yahaya, FCA was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) by the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR.

  Ibrahim Yahaya, FCA, serves as Acting Director, Consumer Protection Department at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), where he manages the various teams that resolve escalated complaints from the customers of financial institutions regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

  As a bank examiner with over 20 years of experience covering prudential, and conduct supervision, Mr. Yahaya was a key part of the team that pioneered the consumer protection structures and processes in Central Bank of Nigeria. He also participated in various supervisory activities, including the development of regulations, as well as examinations of regulated entities, to promote a safe and sound financial system in the country. With passion and a customer-centric disposition at the apex bank, he led a team that conducted mediation meetings and technical review sessions with various financial institutions and their petitioners. Mr. Yahaya also facilitated the restitution of customers who were unfairly treated by financial institutions across the country. His team oversaw the escalation of recurring consumer issues with banks and other financial institutions for appropriate action by the apex bank. As a member of the quality assurance team, he made notable recommendations for policy reviews and appropriate bank charges, most of which were adopted and implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

  At the CBN, he was also saddled with the responsibility of managing teams that monitor the conduct of institutions regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria and facilitated the development and issuance of the consumer protection regulations and initiated the development of the risk-based supervision framework for consumer protection. Mr. Yahaya also coordinated the conduct of consumer protection compliance examinations in banks, microfinance banks, and primary mortgage banks.

  Mr. Yahaya is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), and a certified bank examiner. He holds a National Diploma in Accountancy from the Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, and a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy from the same institution. He also attended many trainings and courses in the country and around the globe, including a workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Schemes (The World Bank Group, 2018); a Workshop on IFSB Standards for Institutions Offering Islamic Financial Services (Banking) (IFSB-15 and IFSB-16) (IFSB, 2016); Transformational Change & Strategic Leadership Course (Meirc Training & Consulting, 2020); Business Conduct and Consumer Protection (Bank Negara, Malaysia, 2013), and Implementing Effective Risk- Based Supervision (Saike Green Resources Int & Risk Reward Limited, London, UK, 2007), just to mention a few.

  Given his hard work and outstanding performance, Mr. Yahaya was recognized in 2009 by the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria for good conduct in the CBN/NDIC Special Examination.

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  Mr. Charles Odion Iyore
  Non-Executive Director
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  Mr. Charles Odion Iyore was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) by the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR. Mr. Odion Charles Iyore is the principal partner of the United Kingdom-based R. K. Heritage Limited, offering sovereign advisory services to market leaders and investors. Before that, he was a partner in Dion and Associates Limited and DNA Capital.

  He had an engagement to manage the data and market information (corporate actions and rites of markets) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), using a built in-plant broadcast platform, which he constructed, as well as other research publications on the Bloomberg Professional. He has twice been in review teams of the Investment and Securities Act, and a member of the industry assembled team for Financial System Stability put together by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

  Mr. Iyore is a graduate of Engineering from the University of Ife. Ile-Ife (Metallurgical and Material Engineering) now Obafemi Awolowo University. He did his national service and worked with Modern Foundry Products (MFP), producing replacement spare parts for industrial plants (Guinness Nigeria, Nigerian Breweries, Cadbury Schweppes, Nigerian Bottling Company), and was part of the team that produced the first fiberglass satellite television dishes in Nigeria. He serviced the water chiller of the air-conditioning mega-unit at the Muritala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, over the early years of commissioning. Mr. Iyore has served in the financial services sector for over 35 years, working in various capacities in the Public Trust Office, (Receivership and Investment), Wagon-Lits and Pickford travels Enfield London, as a leisure tour buyer, and in co-mingled asset management positions with Merrill Lynch, First Bank (UK) Union Bank (UK) and Martin Brokers.

  He was part of the regulatory (Nigerian Stock Exchange) advisory and observer team on the London Stock Exchange listing of Diamond Bank Securities on the PSM Board. As a market analyst, he has worked on Ashanti Goldfields, as well as FMCG companies (TESCOs and Sainsbury’s), and is regarded as a subject matter expert. He switched to financial services when the currency risks of exchange rates made innovative local manufacturing difficult. He was also the publisher of ‘Gain and Prospects’, a financial markets newsletter, which sat and monitored, on the dealing floor, the early Central Bank of Nigeria auctions of foreign exchange (Second Tier/Dutch auctions), along with some of the brightest minds of his generation, in banking and financial services. He sat on various committees, working on models for markets and deregulation through most of the structural adjustment programme. As a consequence, his views on economic actions that compromised the public good, which have since become manifest in economic misalignments, are widely published.

  He is an active participant on the global financial conference circuits and has moderated and delivered addresses on the PE annual Super returns (Berlin), Euromoney meetings, and the CWC circuits.

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  Mr. Stephen Adeoye Adeyemo
  Non-Executive Director
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  Mr. Stephen Adeoye Adeyemo was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) by the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR. Mr. Adeoye Stephen Adeyemo is a Deputy Director (Accounts) at the Federal Ministry of Finance.

  He currently functions as the Special Assistant to the Permanent Secretary, Finance, a position he has been holding since September 2022. As a Public Sector Financial Expert, Mr. Adeyemo arrived at the Board of AMCON with over two decades’ experience in the public sector’s financial management system. AMCON is a sui generis statutory corporation with narrow and specialised statutory functions. The primary purpose of the establishment of AMCON is the procurement and management of Eligible Bank Assets (EBAs) and Eligible Equities (EEs), which requires the wealth of ideas of Mr. Adeyemo.

  In the course of his career, he served in various ministries and agencies and held various positions in the Finance and Accounts Department both in Nigeria and abroad. He served at the Embassy of Nigeria, Tokyo, Japan, as Finance Attaché for about four years up to March 2022. Mr. Adeyemo joined the Federal Civil Service in April 2003 as an Accountant 1 and has been active in the implementation of various financial reforms in the Federal Civil Service.

  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and holds an MSc. degree in Accounting, MBA Finance, BSc. degree in Accounting, HND & OND in Accountancy.

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  Oyinlola Adebayo FCIS, FCIArb
  Company Secretary
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  Oyinlola Adebayo FCIS, FCIArb is an organized individual and team player with multilayered management and legal service skills. A seasoned lawyer and in-house counsel, she has garnered legal and management experience over the last two decades and currently holds the position of Secretary to the Board and Company Secretary at the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), a public corporation jointly owned by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Ministry of Finance, established in 2010 to be a key stabilizing and re- vitalizing tool aimed at reviving the financial system by efficiently resolving the non- performing loan assets.

  Oyinlola has developed expertise in administration, and resource management, particularly in documentation and record keeping. She has led various teams on diverse projects, from personal development to implementing new policies and organizational structures. Some of her core competencies include Corporate Governance, Dispute Resolution, Legal Process and Support, Process Improvement, Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management.

  She holds an LL.B from the University of Lagos and an LL.M from Osgoode Law School - York University, Ontario, Canada and is member of Nigerian and Ontario Bar. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (ICSAN) and serves as the secretary of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) where she serves as the Abuja Liaison for the Corporate and In-House Counsel Committee. She is certified as a mediator with the Lagos State Multi-Door Court House ((LMDC) which is Africa's first and foremost Court-connected Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Centre established in 2002.