President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr (Mrs) Sarah Omotunde Alade, as Special Adviser to the President on Finance and the Economy, domiciled in the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.
This was made known in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
According to Shehu, Dr. Alade holds BSc (Economics) and PhD in Management Science (Operations Research) and retired from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as Deputy Governor in 2017 after spending 23 years in the apex bank.
She had also acted briefly in 2014 as the CBN Governor.