MTN Group has appointed the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola, as Vice President of Francophone Africa, effective November 1, 2025, as part of a major leadership restructuring within the company.
Toriola, who has led MTN Nigeria since 2021, will continue in his current role while overseeing operations in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Congo Brazzaville. His new assignment marks a return to familiar territory, having previously held leadership roles across Francophone West Africa before taking charge of MTN’s largest subsidiary in Nigeria.
The leadership shake-up is anchored on MTN’s ongoing review of its Ambition 2025 strategy, which seeks to adapt to changing geopolitical, macroeconomic, and technological realities. While reaffirming its three main pillars—connectivity, fintech, and digital infrastructure—the company said the changes were designed to accelerate execution of its strategy beyond 2025. MTN Group President and CEO, Ralph Mupita, noted that the appointments reflected the depth of talent within the organisation and were aimed at boosting long-term value creation for stakeholders.
The restructuring also extends across other critical areas of the business. Group Chief Financial Officer, Tsholofelo Molefe, will now oversee mergers and acquisitions to strengthen capital discipline, while Ebenezer Asante assumes the role of Vice President for Ghana and Southern & East Africa, managing operations in countries such as Uganda, Zambia, and Liberia. In South Africa, Ferdi Moolman has been named CEO, succeeding Charles Molapisi, who returns to his former role as Group Chief Technology and Information Officer, with a new mandate to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption across the Group.
Other key shifts include Selorm Adadevoh expanding his portfolio to cover Strategy and Transformation, Mazen Mroué focusing exclusively on Digital Infrastructure, and forthcoming board-level changes in MTN South Africa. Sindisiwe Mabaso-Koyana will succeed Mike Harper as Chairperson in 2026, while Paul Norman, Group Chief Human Resources Officer, will retire later that year. With Ambition 2025 entering a new phase, the company emphasised that Karl Toriola’s dual role positions him strategically at the centre of MTN’s continental expansion and growth agenda.