Abubakar Abba Bello Biography – Managing Director/ CEO NEXIM Bank

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Abubakar Abba Bello is the managing director and chief executive officer at the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM).

Abubakar Abba Bello was formerly a board member and an executive director at Unity Bank for Africa, where he was in charge of corporate banking, agriculture and North directorate, until his appointment to resume as the new Managing Director of Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in April 2017.

With over 26 years’ experience in banking, Abubakar Abba Bello has occupied senior management positions in corporate banking, regional and commercial banking, and public sector banking in more than a decade, with also a brief stint in auditing.

He graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, where he studied accounting, with also post-graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Liverpool, in the United Kingdom.

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Abubakar Abba Bello has cognate experience in international banking. He was the pioneer Managing Director/CEO of United Bank for Africa Plc’s subsidiaries in the Republic of Chad and Zambia for several years.

Abba has attended several courses in Nigeria and abroad in leadership, advanced management, and executive management. He is a member of Chartered Institute of Bankers Nigeria, and a Fellow, Institute of Credit Administration.

Mr. Abubakar has been an Executive Director of North East & North West at Unity Bank Plc since July 2015 and served as its Executive Director of Corporate & Commercial Banking since January 9, 2014. Mr. Bello has been an Executive Director at Unity Bank Plc since January 9, 2014.