CIBN confab to explore strategies for economic growth

With the socioeconomic challenges facing the country, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) said its forthcoming yearly banking and concern league is expected to sermon the country’s economical quagmire to execute a sustainable economy.

Addressing the media up of the conference, President and Chairman of the Council of CIBN, Prof. Pius Olanrewaju, said considering the pivotal roles banks person played successful financing and shaping the economy, the league is expected to lend to the nation’s socioeconomic development. He maintained that the league would leverage the achievements of erstwhile ones to warrant a occurrence communicative and economical turnaround.

The CIBN brag said the 17th yearly Banking and Finance Conference, slated to beryllium held successful Abuja connected Sept 10 to 11, has the taxable ‘Accelerated Economic Growth and Development: The State of Play and the Way Forward.’

Olanrewaju added that the theme, portion apt, would pull influential information and recommendations that would determination the federation forward. Noting that the docket of the existent CIBN enactment is encapsulated successful the acronym LEGACY, helium added that the institute was poised to equip banking professionals with the requisite cognition and skills required to navigate the ever-changing banking and concern scenery done capable capableness building.

The Chairman of the Organising Committee, Oliver Alawuba, said the league discussions would beryllium focused connected Nigeria’s economical landscape, examining cardinal maturation drivers and strategies for sustainable development. He emphasised however the banking assemblage would lend to economical improvement adjacent beyond Nigeria.

Alawuba, who is besides the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of United Bank for Africa (UBA) arsenic good arsenic the Chairman Body of Bank CEOs, said determination is simply a request to cognize the authorities of the economy, however it has fared and ways to proffer solutions. He added that the meal would absorption connected the youths and however they would make a affirmative interaction connected the economy.