The board of Punch Nigeria Limited has appointed Angela Emuwa as its new chairman.
Mrs Emuwa (nee Aboderin) succeeds her brother, Wale Aboderin, who died on May 30, 2018.
The board also appointed Wunmi Tunde-Obe (nee Aboderin) as a non-executive director.
Both appointments took effect from Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
Until her appointment, Emuwa, one of the daughters of the founding chairman of PUNCH, the late Olu Aboderin, was a non-executive director of the company, having joined the board on July 29, 1994.
She earned a postgraduate diploma in business administration and an MBA from the ESUT Business School. She also holds a diploma in communications advertising and marketing (CAM).
Between 1986 and 1995, Emuwa worked as an advert executive, senior advert executive, advert manager and corporate affairs manager at Newswatch Communications Limited.
She was the advertising sales director at Africa Today from 1995 to 1999 and head of operations at News Africa from 2000 to 2003.
She is the immediate past chairperson, Golden Hearts Touching Lives Initiative, a non-governmental organisation that caters for indigent persons with special needs and the president, Autism Parents Association International, an NGO for Nigerian parents with autistic children.
Emuwa, who sits on the board of other companies, is married with children.
Mrs Tunde-Obe attended Grange School and Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Lagos.
Between 1995 and 2001, she worked as a senior manager, copywriting at LTC/JWT Advertising.
In 2001, she and her husband founded KOPYKATS & Associates, a scriptwriting, music production and marketing company.
Tunde-Obe is the owner of Hair Afrique Beauty Salon, a subsidiary of United Hairways Beauty Company and Iya Ibadan Local Cuisine and Foods which promotes foods from Western Nigeria.
A certified member of the Association of Advertising Practitioners of Nigeria since 2004, Tunde-Obe is a director of Punch Commercial Printing.
An entertainer and lover of the arts, Tunde-Obe is a co-founder of a music group, T.W.O (Tunde and Wunmi Obe), with her husband, Tunde. She is married with children.
