Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), has announced the appointment of Adewale Oyerinde as the new Director-General.
Gatekeepers News reports that NECA made this known in a statement o Sunday, noting that the appointment takes effect from Monday 1 August 2022.
The new appointment became imperative to fill the vacuum left behind by the former Director General, late Dr Timothy Olawale who died in October 2021.
Prior to his appointment, Adewale Oyerinde was the deputy director and head of Membership Services of the Association.
The new DG joined NECA in 2010 and has worked in various capacities, with over 16-year experience in industrial/human resources, business development, stakeholders’ management and key areas of employers’ federation/business membership organisation management.
Oyerinde is an HR thought-leader, an International Labour Organisation (ILO)-trained master trainer and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)-trained ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System), ISO 1400:2015 Lead Auditor.
He sits on the policy board of ITF-NECA Technical Skills Development Project; an erstwhile board member of Citizenship and Leadership training Centre, (a Federal Government agency); member of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) Industrial Relations Technical Working Group (TWG) and council member of the National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC), among others.
