First Bank of Nigeria Limited is a Nigerian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Lagos,Nigeria. It is the premier bank in West Africa. First Bank of Nigeria Limited operates as a parent company in Nigeria,with the subsidiaries 'FBN Bank' in the Republic of Congo,Ghana,The Gambia,Guinea,Sierra-Leone and Senegal;FBN Bank UK Limited in the United Kingdom with a branch in Paris;First Bank Representative Office in Beijing to capture trade-related business between geographies. First Bank also operates First Pension Custodian Nigeria Limited,Nigeria’s foremost pension custodian. The teeming customers of the First Bank Group are serviced from a network of over 700 business locations across Africa. To promote financial inclusion and reach the unbanked,First Bank has an extensive Agent Banking network,with over 53,000 locations across Nigeria. The Bank specializes in retail banking and has the largest client base in West Africa,with over 18 million customers. For eight consecutive years First Bank Nigeria received the Best Retail Bank in Nigeria award by The Asian Banker.
First City Monument Bank (FCMB),a member of FCMB Group Plc,is a financial services holding company headquartered in Lagos. FCMB Group Plc has nine subsidiaries divided among three business groups:commercial and retail banking,investment banking,and asset and wealth management. As of December 2020,the Group's total assets were valued at US $5 billion.
Zenith Bank Plc is a large financial service provider in Nigeria and Anglophone West Africa. It is licensed as a commercial bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria,the national banking regulator. As of 31 December 2019,it holds $16.1bn in total assets,with shareholders' equity of $854 million. The company is listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.
United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is a Multinational pan-African financial services group headquartered in Lagos and known as Africa’s Global Bank. It has subsidiaries in 20 African countries and offices in London,Paris and New York. In December 2021,UBA received its banking license to commence operations in the UAE. It is listed as commercial bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The shares of stock of the group are listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange,where they trade under the symbol:UBA. The Group Chairman of the bank is Tony Elumelu and the GMD/CEO is Kennedy Uzoka.
Margaret Mhango Mwanakatwe is a Zambian politician who was the Minister of Finance from 14 February 2018 to 14 July 2019. She worked previously as a businesswoman,accountant,and bank executive. She was the director for business development in Anglophone Africa at the United Bank for Africa at the bank's headquarters in Lagos,Nigeria. In this role,she supervised business development in Cameroon,the Democratic Republic of the Congo,Ghana,Kenya,Liberia,Mozambique,Tanzania,Uganda,and Zambia. Before that,she served as the managing director and chief executive officer of the United Bank for Africa Uganda Limited from March 2009 until May 2011.
Fidelity Bank,also known as Fidelity Bank Plc.,is a commercial bank in Nigeria. It is licensed as a commercial bank with international authorization,by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),the central bank and national banking regulator.
Alex Otti is a Nigerian economist,banker,investor,philanthropist and politician. Otti is the former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc,a leading retail financial institution in Nigeria. Otti was a gubernatorial candidate of Abia State on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). On 31 December 2015,The Court of Appeal which sat in Owerri removed Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party as governor of Abia State and declared Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance,the winner of the April 11 and April 25 Governorship elections in the state. However,on February 3,2016,the Supreme Court of Nigeria reversed the verdict of the Court of Appeal and affirmed the election of Ikpeazu as Governor. Dr. Alex Otti is a member of the editorial board of one of the most respected newspapers in Nigeria,Thisday,and writes a fortnightly column,every other Monday,titled "Outside The Box".
Elder Urum Kalu "UK" Eke,Mfr was the Group Managing Director,FBN Holdings Plc,a position from which he retired in December 2021. Prior to this appointment he was an executive director with First Bank of Nigeria Limited. Before this,he had worked with Diamond Bank Plc. where he rose to become an executive director. He began his career in 1986 with Deloitte Haskins &Sells International,a firm of chartered accountants. A recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM),Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (Mfr),UK,as he is more commonly known,is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe to parents of Ikwerre descent from Omueke Isiokpo,is a Nigerian banker and entrepreneur. He is currently CEO and Group managing director of Access Bank plc,one of Nigeria's top five banking institutions,after succeeding his business partner,Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede in January 2014.
Adesola Kazeem Adeduntan is a Nigerian business executive. He is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and Subsidiaries a position to which he was appointed from his former role as Group Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Director with the bank. He began his career with Afribank Nigeria Plc. in 1994,after which he worked with KPMG Professional Services,Citibank Nigeria,and the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) before joining FirstBank in July 2014.
Afrinvest Ltd. is a financial advisory firm with a focus on West Africa. It is active in four principal areas:investment banking,securities trading,asset management,and investment research.
Matthias Chika Mordi is from Delta State,in Nigeria and was a refugee during Nigeria’s civil war. He is an economist by training and a banker. He is the Chief Executive Officer of National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria and is the current Chairman of United Capital PLC. He is an Honourable Senior member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and alternate president of the West African Institute of Bankers (2005-2008).
Mustafa Chike-Obi is the current Chairman of Fidelity Bank Nigeria and was an economic adviser to Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation for Nigeria's 2019 presidential election. He was the inaugural Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (“AMCON”) from 2010 –2015 AMCON was established pursuant to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria Act no. 4,2010 on the 19th day of July 2010,for the purpose of efficiently resolving the non-performing loan assets of banks in Nigeria. During his 5-year tenure as MD/CEO of AMCON,Mustafa Chike-Obi performed creditably and won many accolades and admiration from stakeholders in Nigeria's Banking and Financial services industry. He is currently Executive Vice-Chairman of Alpha African Advisory Limited.
Olusola "Sola" Adejoke David-Borha,is the chief executive (CEO) of Africa Regions at the Standard Bank Group since January 2017. She was the CEO of Stanbic IBTC Holdings until January 2017 and was deputy CEO and executive director of corporate &investment banking. She was the CEO of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc from May 2011 to November 2012,and was head of investment banking for Africa. She is the vice chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group since 2015. She joined the board of IBTC in July 1994. She has been a non-executive director of Coca-Cola HBC AG since June 2015. She was a director at Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC from 1994 to March 2017. She is a member of the governing council of the Redeemer's University.
Harriet-Ann Omobolanle (Bola) Adesola is the Senior Vice-Chairman at Standard Chartered Bank Group where she was previously the CEO of Standard Chartered Bank for Nigeria and West Africa. Adesola has over 25 years of experience in the banking sector.
Ademola Adebise is the current Managing Director/Chief executive officer of Wema Bank Plc.
Marufatu Abiola Bawuah is a Nigerian finance and businesswoman. As of 2014,she became the managing director/chief executive officer of United Bank for Africa,making her the first women to have held that position. She has won several awards for her work which includes the 2016 Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana Marketing Woman of the Year and the Finance Personality of the Year Award at the Ghana Accountancy and Finance.
Dupe Olusola is a Nigerian business executive. She is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria-based Hospitality company,Transcorp Hotels plc,subsidiary of the Nigerian conglomerate,Transnational Corporation of Nigeria.
Owen Diana Omogiafo is a Nigerian business executive and strategist. She is the President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp),a diversified conglomerate with strategic investments in the Power,Hospitality and Oil and Gas sectors.
Erastus Bankole Akingbola MON,FCIB,FNIM is a Nigerian banker,investor and philanthropist. He was the former group managing director (GMD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Intercontinental Bank and its affiliates. He is the founder and chairman of Tropics Finance and Investment Company and Inspiration 92.3 FM and also a former chairman of Associated Discount House limited. He was West Africa's 2004 representative on the Executive Board of the African Bankers Forum,an arm of the AFREXIMBANK,which seeks to integrate private sector banking institutions in Africa for continental business finance.
