President Tinubu appoints new Director General for NEMA

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Zubaida Umar as the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed this in a statement on Friday.

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The new Director-General of NEMA has over 20 years of work experience in diverse fields, including Human Resources, and Finance and Administration. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the Institute of Credit Administration.

Umar holds ACCA certifications in Public Financial Management and Digital and Sustainability Financing.

As Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Services at the Federal Mortgage Bank, she drove the strategy and repositioning of the bank and successfully facilitated the transformation of the institution into a modern, digitised mortgage and financial service provider.

Ngelale said: “The President expects that the new Director-General will bring the much-needed financial and operational discipline and refashion the agency into a performance-driven and proactive emergency response provider with a focus on prevention and climate change readiness in the execution of its core mandate.”