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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu recently recognised and celebrated the enduring impact of women in Lagos through the Eko Women 100 initiative. Spotlighting

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Up until recent years, seeing females at the helm of Nigerian banks was quite uncommon. However, the rise of the corporate woman in Africa has seen more women

Although there are currently no specific legal requirements for gender diversity in Nigeria's legal system, the gender gap in the country's banking sector is indeed closing. Nonetheless, regulations issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Code of Corporate Governance and the 2018 Nigerian Code of Corporate Governance (CCG) provide assurances that the number of women holding key positions in the banking sector will only continue to grow.

Advertisement Over the years, these remarkable women climbed the career ladder to get to the top after starting at the bottom. With dint of hard work, consistency, dedication and ambition, they successfully changed the narrative, breaking the proverbial glass ceiling to become the first women to occupy the topmost job at their respective financial institutions. Today, TheCable brings you seven current female MDs of Nigerian banks. Advertisement NNEKA ONYEALI-IKPE, FIDELITY BANK Nneka Onyeali-Ik...

By Obinna Chima The banking industry has made a dramatic leap in its Nigerian Sustainable Banking Principles (NSBP) with the recent appointments of two females as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). The coming on board of the CEOs, Mrs. Miriam Olusanya for Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) and Mrs. Yemisi Edun for First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Limited, marks an important paradigm shift in the approach to decision-making and management with regard to gender at the highest levels of the Nigerian bankin...

SunTrust Bank has launched "women in fashion", an initiative which allows female entrepreneurs in fhe fashion industry access up to N5 million loan.

Wed Apr 14 2021 Suntrust Bank has launched the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Product Loan for women in the logistics business tagged ‘Women on Wheels’. The initiation, which was launched in Lagos, is a 24-month facility aimed at empowering Female Uber and Bolt drivers in Nigeria with Car Loans at a 15 per cent interest rate. The Chief Executive Officer of Suntrust Bank, Halima Buba, said the loan is an asset finance programme for female Uber drivers between the ages of 18 and 52 years....

SunTrust Bank has empowered 100 female drivers with cars to boost their involvement in the ride-hailing industry.

In Borno, teachers stand against trauma Format Folashade Adebayo, Communication Officer, UNICEF Nigeria She had written them off as uncooperative and difficult children. But after Talatu Maidoki, a teacher at the Kamsulum Junior Secondary School in Maiduguri, Borno State in north-east Nigeria attended a psychosocial training, her views on three children in her class changed. “I had thought that people who are stressed or traumatized are mentally challenged,’’ said Maidoki, who has been a ...