President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sarah Omotunde-Alade, as Special Adviser on Finance and the Economy, the Presidency has said.

The office is domiciled in the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.

“Dr Alade, who holds BSc (Economics) and PhD in Management Science (Operations Research), 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,” a State House statement by Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, said on Tuesday.