President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Ms. Hafsat Abubakar Bakari as Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), pending her confirmation by the Senate.
Bakari is a lawyer and financial intelligence expert with years of experience in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and counter-proliferation financing.
She had served as Deputy Director at NFIU, and was at different times the Head of the General Services Unit; Head of the Strategy and Reorientation unit, and Head of the Board Secretariat of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
According to a statement on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, “the President anticipates that Ms. Bakare will bring her wealth of experience and expertise to full discharge in this critical role, especially in view of his administration’s war against illicit financial flows and other sharp practices currently prevalent in segments of the nation’s foreign exchange markets”.
