Aero promotes healthy living among staff, holds health walk to mark 6oth anniversary
In a bid to celebrate its 60years of operations in Nigeria, Aero Contractors, one of country’s major carriers has created awareness on healthy living through its health walk.
The health walk commenced from the company’ head office, Ikeja at the airport to Mary Land on Saturday last week.
Speaking during the event, Ado Sanusi, managing director of Aero said the event was to mark the company’s 60th anniversary and ensure it created the needed awareness of health to its workers and clients. “There are so many things we create awareness on. Apart from healthy living, we also want to tell the public that we are back and 60th years in
existence as the oldest aviation company in Nigeria.
“Throughout the month, we have been having health talks on various ailments and health. We have invited a lot of medical organisations to give us health talks. We are doing free tests on high blood pressure, sugar and other things. We are making awareness on cancer and the rest. We are giving our staff good awareness on healthy eating and rest because a healthy employer is also an assent to the company,” Sanusi said.
On corporate social responsibility implementation, he said it is very important to Aero and the very fabric that binds the company to the society. “We love it and we feel that the society has given us so much and it is time for us to give back to the society.”
Speaking during the airline’s 60th anniversary ceremony in Lagos, Cecilia Ibru, a majority shareholder in Aero Contractors said that Aero Contractors the company is willing to take back staff that abandoned the airline during the period it went through hard times.
Ibru attributed the current success of the airline to the staff that stayed behind to resuscitate the airline. She however, promised to take back those who abandoned the airline to its fate.
“As we recover, we must forgive those who sent us into the pit in the first place. The story of our recovery process is being told today.
The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc. (nahco aviance) has appointed Prince Saheed Lasisi as Group Executive Director, business development and commercial; Adeoye Emiloju as Chief Financial Officer; and Abimbola Adunola Adebakin as Independent Non-executive Director.
insurance, corporate finance, supply chain management, capital market and private equity, aviation and maritime.
He had worked in Perpetual Assurance Company Ltd (now part of Standard Alliance Insurance Plc) as Financial Controller, Truebond Investments and Capital Limited as Group Head, Internal Control. He served as a director in various quoted and unquoted companies among which are; Nigerian Wire and Cable Plc, Guardian Health Care Ltd, Truebond Capital and Asset Management Ltd, Truebond Microfinance Bank Limited, Western Properties and Leisure Ltd, Golden Tophedge Investments Ltd among others.
Adeoye Emiloju, whose appointment took effect May 1, 2019 as Chief Financial Ofship positions with the Company across multiple Finance and business functions at different times as Business Accountant, Head of Payroll, Senior Business Analyst, Chief Accountant, Business Finance Manager, and Finance Liaison Manager interfacing with both internal and external stakeholders including partners and government agencies.
Abimbola Adunola Adebakin took effect on April 26, 2019 as an Independent Non-executive Director has over 29 years of professional experience spanning Stockbroking, Banking, Management Consulting and Training.
She is a versatile trainer and proficient management consultant who has led consulting teams across a broad spectrum of assignments including strategy development, human resources management, organizational development and change management. She has developed and delivered many training topics covering strategic management, management and leadership development, corporate governance, entrepreneurship and workplace productivity.