Top10 Magazine Names Umaru Kwairanga As Man of the Year 2026.
He emerged from among many other distinguished personalities The Group Chairman, Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group), Alhaji Umaru Kwairanga, has been named the Top10 Magazine’s Man of the Year 2026.
He succeeds the Chairman of Casiva Ltd, Alhaji Nasiru Haladu Danu, who was the magazine’s Man of the Year for 2025.
He joins a club of distinguished Nigerians who have won the crown since the inception of the award over 10 years ago, with the late Group Managing Director of Access Bank, Dr.
Herbert Wigwe, as the pioneer winner of the award in 2016. on the magazine’s roll of honour are the Chairman, Cosgrove Group (2020), Umar Abdullahi; Chairman of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) and Founder of Maduka University (2022), Chief Samuel Onyishi; former Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS (2023), Muhammad Nami and Senator George Akume (2024), among others. In a letter conveying Alhaji Kwairanga’s selection as the Man of the Year 2026, the Board of Editors of the Magazine said it was in recognition of his towering leadership as custodian of Nigeria’s capital market, his role in driving national economic development, his championship of corporate governance, transparency, integrity and influence that defined Nigeria’s economic narrative in 2026. These, the givers of the award said, clearly stand him out as a man of excellence worthy of celebration, “hence the decision of our management to accord you this special recognition as the Top 10 Magazine’s Man of the Year 2026,” the letter said.
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