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In spite of the harsh business environment, occasioned by the prevailing depreciation of the Naira, security challenges, removal of fuel subsidy and other critical reforms in the foreign exchange market, Adubi has been able to navigate MicCom to optimal operational effectiveness, efficiency and visibility. She made this possible through the application of best management practices, prudent management of resources, as well as excellent corporate governance principles.
In the area of empowerment and social corporate responsibility, MicCom, under Adubi’s leadership, has done a lot by building roads in the immediate community where the company is located. Apart from that, the company has built about 500 boreholes in several communities in Osun state, facilities that are easy to maintain by the benefitting communities. The company also set up a cancer centre Foundation to immortalize Adubi’s late mother, a co-founder of MicCom, Engr.
Adubi’s manpower capacity building is second to none. She has invested heavily in staff training, their welfare and the members of their families, disclosing that MicCom Cables and Wires has the best staff in the cable manufacturing industry in Nigeria. She maintained that the good relationship she has built with her employees over time have made them realize that they have a stake in the company.
She disclosed that the security industry is rated the third largest employer of labour in Nigeria. “So, why will the government not prioritize it frontally by providing all resources to empower all our warriors to stamp their signatures of safety on all the formations of the security architecture, both government and private, in Nigeria?”
Added to her cap is the responsibility of leading the Infrastructure Bank Nigeria PLC, as the Managing Director and also the Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, although on acting capacity. With proven history of driving strategic initiatives to improve performance and generate sustainable growth, Chime has led organisational transformation through change management and stakeholder engagement, which enabled her to drive for operational excellence and process optimisation.