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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 banking industry. The NSBP states that as part of a wider sustainable banking commitment, the industry sho...

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. Buba further disclosed that the bank had designated N250m for the project alone. She said: “We ga...

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 teacher for 10 years. “Before, the training, I did not know that it also had to do with feelings a...