UBA inducts 398 graduate trainees across six African countries

United Bank for Africa (UBA) has inducted 398 young men and women from six African countries into its UBA Tribe done the Graduate Management Acceleration Programme (GMAP).

The induction ceremony, which was held connected Thursday successful Lagos, followed a six-month hands-on enactment and learning acquisition to make their inherent imaginable aft graduation.

The GMAP, according to UBA, is designed to select, develop, and physique a pipeline of next-generation leaders and bankers who volition beryllium trained to “drive the bank’s imaginativeness to beryllium the undisputed starring and ascendant fiscal services instauration successful Africa.”

The inductees, according to a connection by the fiscal institution, are drawn from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroun, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Elumelu speaks

In his invited address, the Chairperson of UBA Group, Tony Elumelu, congratulated the caller inductees and expressed profound pridefulness and admiration for their occurrence “having completed the aggravated capacity-building programme.”

Mr Elumelu was said to person highlighted the bank’s passionateness for younker empowerment successful Africa portion bridging the unemployment gap, which according to him, remains 1 of the top challenges of the continent.

The connection reads successful part: “For me, these young UBA graduates are a testament to who we are: a genuinely pan-African radical that invests successful African talent. This milestone is much than conscionable numbers. It signifies UBA’s committedness to younker empowerment.

“Unemployment is the top situation we look – a tragic and cruel betrayal of a generation. We cognize governments unsocial cannot make each the jobs we request – truthful it is up to us, the African backstage sector, to spouse with our authorities successful improving lives and livelihoods.

Elumelu and different officials of the slope astatine the induction ceremony

“This is Africapitalism, and it is gratifying to spot UBA play its part. UBA is dedicated to creating a affirmative impact, done the GMAP programme UBA is creating employment, boosting economical growth, and transforming lives crossed Africa.”

According to Mr Elumelu, the young professionals were trained and equipped for the aboriginal by UBA not conscionable for a vocation successful UBA, but wherever they extremity up, “because this is however we play our relation arsenic a Pan-African bank, successful helping to empower the adjacent generation.”

“We are helping to make employment and this for america is our driving force,” helium added.

GMAP prospective impacts

In his speech, UBA’s Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Oliver Alawuba, commended the graduating people for their unwavering committedness and emphasised the programme’s relation successful cultivating the adjacent procreation of UBA leaders.

“Your dedication, resilience, and unwavering committedness person been thing abbreviated of inspiring. Each of you has demonstrated the qualities of a existent UBA ambassador, and today, we observe not conscionable your achievements but besides the corporate spot of our UBA family,” Mr Alawuba said.

He besides recognised the enactment extended by families and friends passim the programme.

“Their love, encouragement, and knowing person undoubtedly played a pivotal relation successful your success,” helium said.

Also, the UBA’s Group Head, Human Resources, Modupe Akindele, said the slope remains committed to nurturing endowment and enactment wrong the organisation.

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Ms Akindele noted that the GMAP programme, which marked its 2nd graduation, volition beryllium a continuous initiative, arsenic it culminates an intensive travel towards enactment excellence.

According to Ms Akindele, the programme has produced implicit 1,100 graduates, that is astir 700 successful 2023 and 398 caller graduates.

“The information remains that astatine UBA, we judge successful adjacent accidental for all, careless of age, tribe, gender, oregon background; and so, we volition proceed to prosecute our imagination to nurture these young ones to their afloat potential,” she noted.

About UBA

United Bank for Africa Plc is a starring Pan-African fiscal institution, offering banking services to much than twenty-five cardinal customers, crossed implicit 1,000 concern offices and lawsuit interaction points, successful 20 African countries and crossed 4 continents.

With a beingness successful the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France and much precocious the United Arab Emirates, UBA is connecting radical and businesses crossed Africa done retail; commercialized and firm banking; innovative cross-border payments and remittances; commercialized finance, and ancillary banking services.