Kingsley Obiora is a Nigerian banker who served as the Deputy Governor of Economic Policy at the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2020 to 2023.
On 15 September 2023, a major news articles in Nigeria claimed that all deputy governors of the CBN mainly Folashodun Shonubi, Aishah Ahmad, Edward Lametek Adamu and Kingsley Obiora were removed from office alongside their principal, Godwin Emefiele.
[11] Between 2003 and 2006, he worked at the Centre for Econometric and Allied Research (CEAR), and from 2014 to 2018, he served as Special Adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, and subsequently joined the IMF again as alternate executive director between 2018 and 2019[12] He was also a technical adviser to the economic management team of president Goodluck Jonathan between 2011 and 2014.
[14] President Bola Tinubu had ordered an investigation into the affairs of the central bank under the management of Godwin Emefiele and his deputies.
[15][16] On 1 September 2023, it was alleged that Obiora had been arrested by the Department of State Security over investigative issues of CBN,[17][18] although he was released later.