Dr. Nsikan Linus Nkan is the Commissioner for Finance in Akwa Ibom State. He has served the State as Chairman: State Fiscal Responsibility Board; Debt Management Board and USAID State to State Implementation Committee. He was also a Director, Akwa Savings and Loans Ltd and Anchor Insurance Company Limited.
A Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Dr. Nkan holds a Ph.D in Accounting from the University of Uyo; Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Ado Ekiti (2003-2005) and a B.Sc. in Accounting from the University of Cross River State, now University of Uyo.
Prior to his appointment as Commissioner, he had served as the Akwa Ibom State Accountant-General between July 2015 and December 2016. He was earlier the Zonal Head, Zenith Bank, Akwa Ibom State Zone. He had served variously as Assistant General Manager/Branch Head, Zenith Bank, Uyo; FBN (Merchant Bankers) Ltd, Lagos (1993-1997); First Bank Nigeria Plc (1992-1997) and Ideal Flour Mills Ltd, Kaduna.
He has attended series of training locally and internationally in relevant areas, including leadership, capacity building, risk management, internal control and audit/fraud control management. Some of the trainings attended included: Macro Economic Review for Bank Executive, High performance people skills at London Business School (2004) and Leading High Performance Leaders by Harvard Business School (2004).
Mr. Ebose Augustine Osegha, a Member, Institute of Directors, is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the burgeoning company. Prior to his appointment in February, 2018 by our Board of Directors and subsequent confirmation in March, 2018 by the National Insurance Commission, he was the company’s Executive Director, Business Development and Marketing, overseeing our entire marketing chains.
He joined the company in January, 2017 from Standard Alliance Insurance Plc where he had worked for not less than ten years and rose to the position of General Manager/Divisional Head, Public Sector, Brokers Marketing and Emerging Markets.
He holds B.Sc (Hons.) degree in Economics, Delta State University, Abraka; MBA, University of Ado-Ekiti, Ado-Ekiti and Masters in Business Administration specialising in Research (M.Res. degree) from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Mr. Ebose Augustine Osegha is a Member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Insurers’ Association (NIA); Vice Chairman, Local Organising Committee on ECOWAS Brown Card Scheme Council; Member, Governmental Relations Committee of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) and Advisory Board member, Institute of Counselling in Nigeria. He was also a Member of the Organising Committee and Logistics/Publicity Committee respectively of the African Insurance Organisations’ (AIO) Conference hosted by Nigeria in 2021.
He is a Fellow, Chartered Institute of Administration; Member, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN); Member, Institute of Directors (M.IoD) and Member, Ikoyi Club 1938, among others. He has attended courses and seminars locally and overseas.
Mr. Ukpong Ekwere Ukpong is presently the Managing Director/CEO of Anituson Enterprises Nigeria Limited, ENID Production and Construction Limited and Chairman, ENID Laboratories Limited.
He was Executive Director/General Manager (West/Abuja), Chartered Aluminum System Limited; Chief Accountant and later first Nigerian Business Centre Manager (West) at First Aluminum Plc and External Auditor at Peat Marwick now KPMG, among others.
Mr. Akin Taiwo, a non-Executive Director (Independent Director) on the Board of the Company, is a Chairman on several Boards including Refuge Home Savings and Loans Ltd, RHSL Property & Investment Ltd. Between 1997 and 1998, he was Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Ogun State.
He is a Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Associate Member, Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He had headed Project Management Team for World Bank, IFC and Shelter Afrique.
Mr. Christopher Attah is a Partner at The Zenith Law Firm. He is a boardroom technocrat who sits on the boards of companies which include Meristem Securities Limited, Unitech Drilling Company Limited, Alvita Mineral Ventures Limited and Brownstone C.C. (PTY) Limited (South Africa).
He is a member of the Nigeria Gas Association, Business Support Group and Emerging Markets Private Equity Association.
Mrs. Comfort Ewang, a frontline school administrator and a one-time First Lady of Ogun and Rivers States respectively, is the Director, Beulah International School, a foremost private school of reference based in Akwa Ibom State.
She holds a Master’s degree from London School of Economics, United Kingdom (2001); Master’s degree in Education, University of Calabar (1995); First degree in Education, University of Nigeria (1984) and NCE, College of Education, Uyo (1977).
Mrs. Ewang brings to the Board her deep knowledge of administration and governance matters.
Mr. Adebisi Ikuomola is the Executive Director, Technical, of the company. He started his insurance career with Marine and General in 1989. He is a reference point in insurance technical functions, having worked with various organizations including Trustworld Insurance Company Limited, as Controller Technical before moving to Colenson Insurance Brokers as Deputy General Manager. He, thereafter, had a stint with A& G Insurance Company as Chief Technical Officer, gathering experience with multi-disciplinary background.
He holds an HND in Business Administration from Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic and MBA in Marketing, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology. He is an Associate, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria.
