ARILA - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• BISHOP
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Rivers Community Development Foundation
• Omuku Is the Chairman of Arila Group

He has served as a member of the governing council of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. A professional geologist, Omuku held senior positions in Shell Nigeria and Shell UK before his appointment as Shell Nigeria's chief geologist, and later, Executive Director External Affairs, Director of Shell Trustees Ltd., Chairman, Board of Shell Nigeria Gas, and Senior Advisor, Shell International, London - a position he held until he retired from Shell. He has served as a member of the governing council of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, a member of the board of the Nigerian Mining Corporation, chairman of the Rivers State of Nigeria Bureau of Public Procurement, chairman of the Rivers State (of Nigeria) Sustainable Development Agency, and Archbishop of Canterbury's Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs. Omuku is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rivers Community Development Foundation (set up by the World Bank), member of Friends Life Committee of Reference, a Bishop of South Sudan and Sudan, an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, Church of England, and an Assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

He served on operations globally with the UK Armed Forces and the UN including the 1991 Gulf War and commanded a multi-national battlegroup in the 1996 NATO invention in Bosnia. He was also one of the authors that wrote the new leadership approach which drives the current UK command philosophy.

As the pioneer Managing Director of the Dangote Foundation, a leading corporate foundation promoting health, and empowerment and supporting humanitarian work in Nigeria and around the world, she established governance, programme and operational systems; managed annual grantmaking of over $150 million in health, nutrition, economic empowerment education and construction.

Job Titles:

• GCON Is the Chairman, Advisory Board, Arila Business Management

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan GCFR, GCON is the Chairman, Advisory Board, Arila Business Management. Born November 20, 1957, Dr. Jonathan served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He was the first incumbent president in Nigerian history to concede defeat in an election after losing the 2015 presidential election.