The Federal Government on Thursday appointed Alhaji Garba Abubakar as the new Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC.
Mr Moses Adaguusu, the Head of Public Affairs of the commission made this know in a statement in Abuja.
Adaguusu said Abubakar appointment was conveyed to CAC through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
Abubakar joined CAC in April 2004 as a principal manager compliance and rose through the ranks to become a Director in January 2016.
Between August 2017 to October 2017, he was special adviser to the former Registrar-General.
Prior to joining CAC, he worked with the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (formerly known as National Provident Fund), as compliance officer between 1991 to 1993.
Abubakar worked at NICON Insurance between June 1995 and December 1997.
He is a member Governing Council, Nigerian Bar Association on Business Law from March 2017.
He is a member of Inter-Agency Committee Against Money Laundering and Terrorists Financing, 2007 till date and CAC focal officer on Open Government Partnership.
Abubakar, who was born in 1966, is also a member in house committee on the review of the Companies and Allied Matters Matters Act (CAMA), among others.
He is married and hails from Bauchi State.
He has resumed duty.
Abubakar is a graduate of Law from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was called to the Nigeria Bar in 1989.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Code of Conduct Tribunal had ordered the suspension of the past Acting Registrar-General, Ms Azuka Azinge, for not declaring her assets on December 24.
On December 31, the Federal Government appointed Hajiya Saratu Shafii as Acting Registrar-General of the Commission.
