UBA’s Unending Thirst for Youths Development

By Daily Sports on December 21, 2015

“The future progress of Africa, as a continent, is in the hands of its youthful population.” These were the insightful words from the very suave Phillips Oduoza, Group Managing Director and CEO of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, during one of the numerous youth empowerment programmes recently organised by Africa’s Global Bank.

To precise, this statement was made on Sunday, December 7, 2014 during the Future Awards and Summit also popularly known as The Future Awards where hundreds of youths gathered at the prestigious Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos, to celebrate youths excelling in different aspects of life. The bank is a lead sponsor of the awards and summit as part of its commitment to the development of the youth being future leaders in Africa.

It is edifying to note that “the Future Africa Award in Agriculture” was won by Samir Ibrahim and Charles Nichols, the enterprising founders of Sun Culture, Kenya; a solar-powered irrigation kit which makes it simpler and cheaper for farmers to grow food. The kit replaces expensive diesel and petrol pumps, an excellent encouragement by a bank that simply set the tone for the lads and made the sky their beginning of greater innovations to accomplish.

Youth empowerment has been the hallmark of UBA Plc and it has brought it vibrantly to the front burner as one corporate citizen that has an unending thirst for the development of youths.

Little wonder, therefore, that UBA devotes time and resources to propel youth-friendly programmes because it has long discovered the huge potentials of generation next.

Over 50 percent of Africans are youths, which perhaps explains why the much-admired pan-African bank with operations in 19 African countries aligns its vision to the aspirations of the continent’s youthful population by developing tailor-made products that aligns with the ambitions and goals of the African youth.

Along this line, UBA designed a Next Generation account known as “NextGen” which is targeted at youths regarded by UBA as the next generation of focused, determined, educated and enlightened professionals, employees, entrepreneurs, self employed persons, from all walks of life, obviously early in their financial life cycle.

UBA with its tradition of hiring quality personnel ensured that the Next Gen account is spiced with alluring mechanisms that allow account holders to have access to 24-hour online banking services on the bank’s well celebrated internet banking platform. This is besides other privileges like free web portals, specially branded MasterCard, interest bearing savings accounts, career advisory, scholarships, work place experience schemes with the UBA Group, entrepreneurial skills development workshops and social media engagements.

The good thing about UBA is its niche for creativity. It is also on record that none of her novel idea(s) has fallen short of expectations. In short, it has doggedly run resoundingly and enduringly with it. Sports go with the youths and so these endeavours the Global One Stop Bank has engaged in are crowd pullers also. The never-say-die attitude of the giant financial institution could better be imagined than described as you will need the mouth of the gargantuan in order to capture the whole essence.

UBA endowed The Future Africa Awards “Young Person of the year,” which was won by Sangu Delle, Co-Founder, Cleanacwa, a 27-year-old Ghanaian entrepreneur that fabricated a clean water organisation that has impacted tens of thousands of people in rural Liberia and Ghana.

These and others are sure footed programmes sponsored by UBA and one must acknowledge in all its ramifications is a huge social enterprise set up with a strong, practical commitment to human and capital development, especially in Africa.

Interestingly, The Future Project is the largest home-grown network of policy-makers, business people, and other stakeholders in Young Africa. It is also devoted to finding valuable and original ways of addressing social issues. It has become one of the most respected private sector-driven development platforms with a history of verifiable impact, including in under-privileged and grassroots communities.  They are dripping success stories, the facts are there.

Sports Pulse follows closely with keen importance the UBA’s footprints in the sands of time as it drives these self obligatory programmes with relative ease.

Head or tail, prosperity has placed UBA Plc in the present Olympian height it has found itself. Aside its rock-solid nature in the banking industry, in the area of social responsibility it has again scored A+. The truth must be told that UBA has fully identified, demonstrated and shown that ‘Youths are Africa’s future’. Consequent upon that, its stand up for the champion, The Wise Man and Wise Woman’s Bank.  I must confess, this is vintage Africa’s Global Bank. Thumbs upUBA!!!

•Enyinnaya can be reached via 08055060145 (sms only) or by e-mail via sportzvictor@yahoo.co.au

Source Daily Sports

Posted December 21, 2015


 

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