Danjuma Appointed ntel Chairman

With a target of $1billion by 2020, new entrant in the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) model, the board of NatCom Development & Investment Limited “NatCom” (trading as ntel), will be manned by elder statesman and entreprenuer, General TY Danjuma as Chairman.

In a statement by the company, Danjuma became Chairman after an inaugural board meeting recently.

The board will have former chairman, Dr. Tunde Ayeni as Vice Chairman. Other members of the board include Captain Idahosa Okunbo, Abiola Ayeni, Kasheem Shettima, Philip Chukwu, Kola Adesina, John Darlington, Dan Kunle, Babatunde Omotoba and Kamar Abass.

Commenting on this key addition to ntel’s board, ntel’s CEO, Kamar Abass, remarked “we are delighted to have a man of General TY Danjuma’s standing join us. As our new chairman, and as a shareholder, we welcome his support as we add momentum to our growth and development in Nigeria’s telecoms industry.”

“We expect to benefit enormously from General Danjuma’s sterling leadership credentials and, in this way, to build on the excellent work of our immediate past chairman, Dr. Tunde Ayeni, who positioned ntel to deliver the leading Broadband experiences already evidenced in Lagos and Abuja.”

General Danjuma, fondly known as ‘the green general’ on account of his environmental activism, has interests in oil and gas, banking and shipping.

A respected environmentalist and philanthropist, he was Chairman of Abuja Green Society and through his own Danjuma Foundation, established in 2009, passionately supports poverty alleviation, education and medical aid initiatives across Nigeria.

General Danjuma brings to the ntel board robust commercial experience covering some three decades in the public and private sectors, following a successful career in the army from where he retired as a three-star General and Chief of Army Staff in 1980.

He also served as Minister of Defence in the first term of the civilian administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

It would be recalled that ntel commenced commercial operations of its 4G/LTE-Advanced network in Lagos and Abuja in April. Network services in Port Harcourt are scheduled to commence early in the fourth quarter.