PROFILER- Meet Arunma Oteh

Arunma Oteh 

Arunma Oteh  is the current vice president and treasurer of the World Bank. 

Ms Oteh is credited for sanitizing Nigeria’s capital market during her time as the Director-General of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). 

The University of Nsukka graduate, had stints with the African Development Bank, Harvard Institute of International Development and Centre Point Investments Limited, Nigeria before she was appointed as SEC DG by Late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

 Efforts by some unscrupulous politicians in Nigeria’s House of Representatives to rubbish Oteh’s achievements was rebuffed by the Abia state-born woman, who exposed the legislator’s demand for bribe, after which she was given a clean bill of health by PricewaterhouseCoopers following allegations of financial impropriety against her.