Red Star Express gets new CEO as Obabori bows out

L-R: Executive Director Sales & Marketing, Mr. Charles Uche Ejekam, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Auwalu Badamasi Babaura, Mrs. Obabori, Outgoing Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Olusola Peter Obabori, and Outgoing Executive Director Sales & Marketing, Mr. Victor Ukwat

 

 

Posted by Sade Williams

 

Red Star Express, Nigeria’s leading logistics company, has appointed Auwalu Badamasi Babaura as the new managing director of the company as Dr. Sola Obabori, the erstwhile Chief Executive Officer, bows out.

The company also appointed a new Executive Director, Sales & Marketing, Mr. Charles Uche Ejekam.

Red Star recently held a special event to honor the outgoing CEO; the incoming CEO and the new Executive Director Sales & Marketing.

The change of baton at Red Star Express is a good example of succession planning in action in the Nigerian aviation industry and corporate space.

Red Star Express, the first-ever indigenous courier company to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, now serves over 1,500 communities within Nigeria and more than 220 countries and territories around the world,