{"id":1133,"date":"2020-07-07T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2020-07-12T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T11:22:28","slug":"chime-becomes-vodacom-nigerias-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/07\/chime-becomes-vodacom-nigerias-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Chime Becomes Vodacom Nigeria\u2019s Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vodacom Group has appointed Valentine Chime as the new managing director for its Nigerian business. The company announced Chime\u2019s appointment Monday, July 6,2020 in a statement signed by Onyinye Ago,its senior account executive.<br>Chime joins Vodacom Business Africa, Nigeria from Aruwa Capital, a private equity company investing across West Africa. Earlier, he had held various C-suite positions in a number of portfolio companies in different sectors.<br>The Vodacom statement stated that Chime is expected to drive the company\u2019s vision of becoming Africa\u2019s leading cloud and digital service provider.<br>\u201cVodacom Business Africa (Nigeria) is well-known and well respected in the industry, and I look forward to taking up this mission\u2019, says Chime.<br>\u201cCovid-19 has accelerated digital transformation, and we are perfectly positioned to deliver intelligent connectivity through seamless delivery of cloud and digital services and technologies to our clients.<br>\u201cWe are about simpler, seamless solutions; I look forward to building on this and growing the business,\u201dChime said.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Group has appointed Valentine Chime as the new managing director for its Nigerian business. The company announced Chime\u2019s appointment Monday, July 6,2020 in a statement signed by Onyinye Ago,its senior account executive.Chime joins Vodacom Business Africa, Nigeria from Aruwa Capital, a private equity company investing across West Africa. Earlier, he had held various C-suite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Chime-V.jpeg?fit=198%2C255&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecustomsstreetjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}