Odua Investment Company Ltd, the holding company for the joint investments owned by the six states of Western region, has appointed Mr. Abimbola Alagbe as the new managing director/chief executive officer (CEO) of Western Hotels.
In a statement by the Boards of O’dua Group and Western Hotels, owners of the Premier Hotel and Lafia Hotels , Ibadan, Oyo State, the new managing director was urged to hit the ground running by deploying his wealth of experience to chart a new course of profitability for the hotels.
This, according to the board, is to justify the confidence reposed in his choice by the owners of the 53 year-old hospitality outfits.
Alagbe, 52, holds a combined honours, bachelor’s degree in Language Education from University of Ilorin and a master’s degree in Communications & Language Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
He is member and officer of many national professional bodies in Nigeria.
He sits on a handful of business concerns as well as on the governing council of many professional bodies in Nigeria. He is a two- term chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Ogun State Chapter, one-time member of the Governing Council of the NIPR and two-term Chairman of the APBN, Ogun State.
Alagbe, who was trained in Nigeria, United Kingdom and United States, was in 2015 admitted a Fellow of the U.S. government-sponsored COCHRAN educational training on value-chain distribution and hospitality management.