The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has appointed Adewale Oyerinde as its Director-General (DG).

In a statement, yesterday, the body said the appointment takes effect from today, August 1.

Oyerinde’s elevation followed the death of the former occupant, Timothy Olawale.
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He was the association’s deputy director and head of membership services.

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.
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