Convener of SUPERNEWS Nigeria Annual Conference ha announced that the chairman of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Group, Alhaji Umaru Kwairanga, would chair the 2025 edition of the annual event scheduled to hold on June 19th 2025 at Oriental Hotel, 3 Lekki Road, Victoria Island, Lagos.
According to the convener, SUPERNEWS Nigeria publisher, Ngozi Onyeakusi, the choice of Alhaji (Dr) Kwairanga as the Chairman of the conference is as result of his vast knowledge and wealth of experience in the financial services sector.
An experienced investment professional with almost two decades of experience at the highest levels of the capital market, banking and the real sector, Alhaji Kwairanga possesses first and post graduate degrees in business administration, corporate governance and finance respectively.
He has also attended courses and training programs in fields relating to finance, investment and money market in reputable institutions including the Harvard Business School, New York Institute of Finance and the Wharton Business School.
Alhaji Kwairanga has professional certifications of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) and the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria and he is a member of the Abuja Commodities & Securities Exchange.
He is currently the chairman of Ashaka Cement PLC, the group managing director/chief executive officer of Finmal Finance Services Ltd, director, Jaiz Bank PLC, director, Central Securities Clearing System PLC, Chairman, Penman PFA Ltd and president, Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria.
He is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Industrial Relation, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and a fellow of the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria.
With the theme, Power Of AI: Enhancing Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction for Better Financial Services Experience, the managing director of Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr Johnson Chukwu, will deliver the keynote address at the conference.
Also billed to grace the event are the Lagos State Commissioner for Insurance, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), Mr Olusegun Ayo Omosehin and the Director-General, National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Omolola Oloworaran as special guests of honour.
The conference will equally feature a panel session which will include renowned experts like the founder/CEO, ZER Consulting Africa, Mrs Adeolu Adewumi-Zer, the former managing director, Hilal Takaful Insurance Limited, Mrs Thaibat Adeniran, the National President, Bank Customers Association of Nigeria (BCAN), Dr. Uju Ogubunka and the head Financial Institutions Ratings, Augusto & Co, Mr Ayokunle Olubunmi.
The epoch-making event will be bringing together other regulators, key stakeholders in the financial services, ICT sector, informal sector and small business owners.
Commenting on the theme of the conference, the convener, Onyeakusi said Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption has the capacity to transform the Nigerian financial services sector.
AI offers an unprecedented opportunity to reach more customers, reduce operational costs, and enhance customer experience.
AI technology, according to experts, has gained so much popularity in businesses that analysts put global business value earned through artificial intelligence at $3.9 trillion in 2022, from $1.2 trillion in 2018, she said.
This confab is a learning opportunity designed to enhance awareness, deepen understanding of participants on the imperative and use of AI in rendering banking, capital market, pension and insurance services, better, cheaper, faster and conveniently.
