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Phillips Consulting Unveils 2019 Digital Learning Technology Training Calendar
By Dipo Olowookere
An innovator in instructor led and online trainings, Phillips Consulting (PCL), has launched its 2019 Training Calendar, highlighting the best, up-to-date and most relevant training courses essential to all professionals and companies to meet expected goals and outcomes.
The calendar was unveiled at a press briefing held at the PCL Lagos office on Thursday, November 1, 2018 by Senior Partner, People Transformation, Mr Paul Ayim; Head of Digital Learning, Mrs Modupe Thomas-Owoseni; and Head of Classroom Learning, Nwaji Jibunoh.
The team revealed that it was crucial to empower people to perform at the very highest level and explained that PCL’s carefully designed and executed programs are provided through methods designed for optimal impact on participants’ behaviour.
They also revealed that an ever-changing operating landscape means there is need to continuously evolve to ensure the provision of world-class learning interventions from creation through to delivery, in alliance with global thought-leader partners around the world.
Speaking on the offerings, Senior Partner, Mr Paul Ayim said, “Over the years, several blue chip organisations have trusted the quality of our classroom and digital learning interventions. This confidence has brought a paradigm shift in their mindset from seeing training as a cost to a significant investment in their most critical of all assets, their people.
“Our digital learning interventions further enhance their ability to embed learning into their employees’ flow of work. Employing blended learning approaches have led to impressive results as knowledge gained is immediately applicable in the work people do and reduces the significance of scrap learning, which occurs when people do not use what they learn.”
He said, “Our aim is simple: to help your people succeed. We will go to any length to ensure that this happens.”
The 2019 training calendar features a wide range of In-House, Open-Standard, Technology-focused and International programs that can be delivered locally and internationally at the client’s discretion.
According to Head of Classroom Learning, Mr Nwaji Jibunoh, “The 2019 calendar gives a full view of our wide range of learning interventions which includes: Instructor Led Facilitation courses, held at our training facilities with programmes covering Leadership and Management, Workforce Management, Infotech and Bespoke Learning Courses.
“Our specialized solutions which include Knowledge Management, Strategic and Managerial Competency Development Solutions guides those who seek to build strong, sustainable establishments through the documentation and sharing of organisational intelligence.”
He said, “In addition we also have Online Learning Solutions that are either customised digital courses or curated off-the-shelf content, designed to help organisations embed learning into the workflow.
Also speaking on Digital Learning’s offerings, Managing Consultant, Modupe Thomas-Owoseni said:
“With the wave of Digital Disruptions taking place in the global market place; there is an urgent need to rapidly upskill all employees on the various frameworks and technologies being adopted. This will help the entire organization to become more digitally aware, in readiness for their digital transformation journey. Phillips Consulting, through its plethora of digital learning solutions is poised to support organisations through this agile journey of learning in a digital world for optimal business performance and sustainability”.
With over 26 years of experience in learning and development and training facilitation, Phillips Consulting is renowned for its ability at working closely with organisations to understand specific goals and requirement(s) that guides in planning and developing exceptional training interventions to meet their client’s essential objectives. This is achieved through a team of recognized consultants and facilitators who are successful industry professionals and possess several years of experience in their various fields of expertise.
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
Mr Peter Maila has been appointed as the chief executive of Zvilo Africa, with the mandate to strengthen the company’s market footprint on the continent and help the business go for growth.
The working capital lender provides funding support to businesses in the European Union (EU), Türkiye, Africa, and the Middle East.
Zvilo services local and cross-border trade finance needs of entire supply chains, ensuring businesses have the working capital they need, when they need it, for sustainable long-term growth.
“I am thrilled to join Zvilo at such an exciting time, as Zvilo seek to strengthen its market footprint into Africa and help drive its expansion across the continent.
“The senior team at Zvilo – led by my old colleague Admir Imami – is determined to go for growth, which is why we have both dedicated ourselves to the business,” Mr Maila said of his appointment.
“We are thrilled to welcome Peter Maila to the Zvilo team as our CEO of Zvilo Africa. He will bring exceptional experience and depth of expertise in in investing and building a book of business, both from an African perspective but also from risk, regulatory and governance perspectives.
“His appointment will dramatically strengthen the leadership team by adding deep strategic insight, which will be pivotal in driving growth in the African continent, attracting impactful partners, maximising value and helping reduce the African 120bn trade gap,” the chief executive of Zvilo, Mr Admir Imami, stated.
Mr Maila brings 30-years of finance and investment experience to Zvilo, where he worked for African and international banks, where he has been instrumental in investments worth over $2 billion in Africa and South Asia over the last 15 years in FMCG, Infrastructure (incl. renewable energy), Real Estate and TMT (incl. FinTech) using both debt, mezzanine and equity instruments.
He joined the firm from FMO, the Netherlands-based entrepreneurial development bank where he was Co-Chief Investment Officer covering its private equity and emerging markets team.
Zvilo has ambitious plans to help reduce the 2.5 trillion global trade gap, of which $120 billion is in Africa.
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Anthony Ikemefuna Idigbe, has been appointed to the board of PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc as an independent non-executive director.
A regulatory notice to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited by the company disclosed that the appointment of Mr Idigbe took effect from Thursday, March 27, 2025.
However, this appointment, according to the statement signed by the company secretary, ALSEC Nominees Limited, is subject to ratification at the next Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the organisation.
The appointee, a Senior Partner at PUNUKA Attorneys and Solicitors, has over 40 years of experience in corporate governance, insolvency, business restructuring, arbitration, dispute resolution, privatization, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and oil and gas.
The graduate of Law from the University of Ife in 1982, was elevated to SAN in July 2000.
He is a member of the Board of Directors (Trustees) of the Canadian Association of Nigerian Lawyers (CANL); Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dominican University, Ibadan; Fellow of the Institute of Directors Nigeria (IOD), INSOL International, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) and the International Bar Association (IBA).
In addition, he is a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA); Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA), International Chamber of Commerce, Nigeria (ICCN), American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and International Insolvency Institute (III).
Mr Idigbe chaired Capital Hotel Plc from 2017 to 2022 and currently chairs Ikeja Hotel Plc and The Tourist Company of Nigeria Plc, all listed on the NGX, until two were delisted, according to business strategy.
He is a director of Royal Exchange Plc, listed on NGX and chaired the Statutory Audit Committee of Seplat Energy Plc from 2015 to 2023, which is listed on NGX and the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The new board member was elected the President of the Asaba Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ASACCIMA) in 2022, and President of the Delta Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (DACCIMA) on 12 December 2022.
He was appointed the National Legal Adviser for the National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) in May 2023.
He established the Capital Market Solicitors Association (CMSA) and chaired the 2017 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Legal Profession Regulation Review Committee, which reviewed the regulation of the legal profession in Nigeria.
In 2013, he was appointed the National Coordinator for Nigeria, World Bank Global Forum of Law, Justice, and Development Project on Treatment of Shareholders’ Rights in Insolvency of Companies (2013 to 2014); and in 2012 a Member of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force set up by President Goodluck Jonathan.
In addition, he chaired the Technical Drafting Committee for the Bill that became the Investment and Securities Act 2007. He recently chaired the review committee for the same law, resulting in the Investment and Securities Bill now Act. As a consultant to the Bureau of Public Enterprises, he and the now Hon Justice Nnamdi Dimgba drafted the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Bill now Act relating to anti-trust and competition law in Nigeria.
By Modupe Gbadeyanka
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mr Nasir Naeem Abdulsalam as the Managing Director of the Ajaokuta Steel Company, Kogi State.
A statement from Mr Segun Imohiosen, the Director of Information and Public Relations on behalf of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr George Akume, disclosed the appointment took effect from Thursday, April 3, 2025, and is in accordance with the provisions of the Certain Political and Judicial Office Holders (Salaries and Allowances, etc) Act 2008 as amended.
Mr Abdulsalam, according to statement, has been tasked by Mr Tinubu to leverage his wealth of experience in the steel industry in his new assignment in revolutionising the company to generate important upstream and downstream industrial and economic activities that will position the nation as the industrial hub of Africa in line with the diversification drive of the Renewed Hope Agenda.
Until his appointment, the appointee served as the Technical Adviser to the Minister of Steel Development, Mr Dele Alake, as well as the Special Assistant on Academics to Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Sulaiman.
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