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28 | The Lion King
News Round Up
UBA-MoneyGram
Leverage Diaspora Marketing
to Strengthen Partnership
M
oneyGram has undertaken a number
of corridor stimulation activities to drive
remittances via UBA-MoneyGram to our
locations in Nigeria and the greater UBA network in
Africa as part of efforts to strengthen their partner-
ship with UBA.
In line with this, a team of UBA and MoneyGram
representatives met recently in London to partici-
pate in several events including the Festival of Life
(FOL) activities of the RCCG church. This event,
reputed to be one of the largest congregations of
Africans in the UK with over 30,000 audiences, pro-
vided an excellent opportunity for direct market-
ing.
Other major activities embarked upon by the team
include participation in the Nigeria Carnival and
key Agent Location visits designed to build UBA-
MoneyGram relations with Ethnic Agents in the UK.
UBA is a key agent of MoneyGram in Africa with a
15-year partnership spread across UBA’s subsidiaries
in Africa and over 10,000 locations in 15 countries.
UBA is an anchor agent in Nigeria and key to the
business development aspiration for MoneyGram in
the entire sub-Sahara region.
GMD Bags CIBN
Fellowship Award
I
n recognition of his outstanding contributions to the
banking sector, our Group Managing Director, Mr.
Phillips Oduoza has been honoured with a fellowship
investiture by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria
(CIBN) at the 2012 Fellowship Investiture of the Institute
held on October 20, 2012 at the Federal Palace Hotel,
Lagos. He was honoured alongside two Deputy Governors
of Central Bank and six other bank chiefs in Nigeria.
The President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN),
Group Managing Director/CEO, UBA Plc, Mr. Phi l l ips Oduoza being conferred with the
Fel lowship of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria by the Institute’s President, Mr.
Segun Aina (2nd left); 1st Vice President, CIBN, Otunba Debola Osibogun (right); and
2nd Vice President, CIBN, Deacon Segun Aj ibola (left), during the 2012 Fel lowship
Investiture of the Institute held in Lagos, Nigeria.
L-R: GMD/CEO, Phi l l ips Oduoza and DMD, Kennedy Uzoka
L-R: Stephanie Duba, Diaspora Marketing Manager, MoneyGram Intl.; Mark
Perryman, Senior Regional Director, UK, Ireland, and the Nordics; Stel la
Okoj ie, Product Manager UBA-MoneyGram; Oluwaseyi Oke, Product Man-
ager, MoneyGram UK, Ebele Ogbue MD/CEO, UBA Capital Europe
Mr. Segun Aina commended the recipients
for their exemplary commitment to the
institute and the banking sector as well.
In his response, Mr. Oduoza thanked the
institute for honouring him with the fellowship
saying, “I feel very elated by this award. I
will continue doing my best to promote and
sustain the high ethical standards in the
institute and also the banking industry’’.
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria
is a body that determines the standards of
skills and knowledge of persons seeking to
become members of the banking profession.