...to Sell its Afghanistan Business
Shaibu Haruna, new Chief Sales and Distribution Officer for MTN Ghana. Image sourced from Business Ghana. |
According to Business Ghana, Haruna is a results-oriented
executive with a proven track record through his over two decades in
multinational businesses across Africa and the Middle East.
“I am excited to welcome Shaibu back to the Y’ello family
and I am confident his expertise gained over the years will further enhance the
MTN brand as we work towards building the largest and most valuable platform
business with a clear focus on Africa,” comments Selorm Adadevoh, CEO of MTN
Ghana on the appointment of Shaibu Haruna.
He has, in the past, successfully executed channel/business
turnaround strategies in the telecoms, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG),
automobile and financial services industries across diverse markets. Haruna has
also served on the boards of a number of businesses in e-commerce, education,
agribusiness and hospitality throughout his professional life.
Haruna began his career in sales at Unilever as Acting Sales
Executive and later joined Ghana Breweries Limited as Regional Account Manager.
In 2005, Haruna joined Toyota Ghana as Deputy Head of Sales and successfully
led a strategy to grow consumer and SME sales, which led to a number of
partnerships formed between Toyota and several financial institutions.
In 2006, Haruna joined Big Yellow as Senior Manager for
Sales, only to be promoted to General Manager in 2008. He then left Africa to
try his hand with Etihad Etisalat Mobily in Saudi Arabia as Executive General
Manager in November 2015.
In April 2017, Haruna left Etisalat to join MTN Ghana’s
largest distributor, Izone, as its CEO, where he delivered a successful
turnaround from a period of flat growth to double-digit growth.
Haruna is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and
Management of the United Kingdom and holds a Master’s Degree in Business
Administration from the University of Leicester, UK.
In the same vein: South Africa’s MTN Group is reportedly in
talks with potential international buyers for its wireless business in
Afghanistan. This is part of the company’s plans to accelerate its exit from
the Middle Eastern country.
Techcentral reports that MTN, which is Africa’s largesttelecom company and currently the market leader in Afghanistan with a 40%
share, is in discussions with several parties in ongoing negotiations to sell
its Afghanistan arm.
Last year, MTN announced its plans to exit the Middle East
over the medium term, allowing the South African company to focus on African
markets entirely. Since then MTN has left its operations in Syria, saying that
regulatory demands in the country made its operations there untenable.
South Africa’s MTN Group is reportedly in talks with
potential international buyers for its wireless business in Afghanistan. This
is part of the company’s plans to accelerate its exit from the Middle Eastern
country.
Other telecoms operating in Afghanistan, which includes the
UAE’s Etisalat, have been reassuring customers and investors that they are
keeping services running following the collapse of the US-backed government and
installation of the Taliban as the country’s sovereign group last month.
The Taliban Announce New Government
On Tuesday the Taliban, an extremist Islamic political
group, unveiled a new government in Afghanistan from its largest city, Kabul.
According to Reuters, the group filled some of its top posts with individuals
in its inner high echelons, including a wanted man on a US terrorism list as
interior minister.
The Taliban have been vocal about being a sustainable force
in the country, claiming to be committed to any and all international laws,
treaties and commitments not in conflict with Islamic law.
“In the future, all matters of governance and life in Afghanistan
will be regulated by the laws of the Holy Sharia,” Taliban supreme leader
Haibatullah Akhundzada said in a statement, in which he also congratulated
Afghans on what he called the country’s liberation from foreign rule.
Now ruling Afghanistan as its sovereigns, the Taliban have
vowed to be more patient and tolerant this time around, a commitment many
Afghans and foreign powers will be scrutinising going forward.
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