Ibrahim Abubakar Kwargana

Mr. Ibrahim Abubakar Kwargana is a seasoned banker of repute. He holds a second class upper degree in Political Science, an MSc in Corporate Governance and a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors. His wide experience traversed many key sectors of banking which comprise operations, internal audit, marketing and customer relationship.

He began his career with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria as trainee personnel officer then redeployed to personnel services supervisor and in 1985 appointed as Head of industrial relations, eastern division.

In 1986, He moved on to Nigeria International Bank a subsidiary of Citi group to be the Assistant Manager and cash officer, Kano branch. He later became the manager and head; management services in 1990 saddled with the responsibility of managing customer services, transactions, cash management and operations, physical assets and premises of the branch. In 2001, Mr. Kwargana became the Deputy General Manager and divisional head for customer processing center in the head office responsible for coordinating operations, controls and service delivery at the customer processing center of the bank, coordinating and overseeing branches activities and treasury operations departments in the bank. In 2004, he was elevated to General Manager; Operations and Resources in FBN (Merchant Bankers) Limited responsible for the coordination of operations and resources requirements of the bank, established sound operations and resource policies for the smooth and effective conduct of the bank business.

Mr. Kwargana has attained several other top spots in the financial sector, in 2009, he became the Deputy General Manager and business development manager of First Bank, Abuja in 2009 and in 2015, he rose to the position of Executive Director Public Sector and Government Relations in 2015.

He has attended a number of local and International symposiums, seminars and workshops on banking processes and products, personnel management, audit, fraud awareness and prevention, money laundering, corporate governance and enterprise risk management and also facilitated on some of the programs. Some of the training he attended includes 61st International Banking Summer School in Hong Kong, Africa international Banking Seminar in Johannesburg, South Africa, Advanced Management and Leadership programme, Oxford Management Centre and International Trade Finance Seminar organized by Euromoney, London among many others.

Mr. Kwargana brings to the Board of Premium Pension Limited over thirty-eight years experience in personnel Administration and industrial relations, internal audit, Banking operations, economics and investment management.