Photos Tell How UBA Celebrated Africa Day

Beautiful pictures telling how the financial services group providing corporate, commercial, SME and consumer banking services to more than 45,000 customers globally, United Bank for Africa (UBA) celebrated the 2024 Africa Day have emerged.

The bank operating in 20 countries across Africa, the United Kingdom, France, the UAE, and is the only African bank with a commercial deposit-taking presence in the United States of America staged an event to remember on Friday, May 24, 2024.

The event is described as “all colour and glitz as a troupe of dancers representing Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Zimbabwe, among other African countries, entertained the audience from the entrance of the building to its doorways through to the Tony Elumelu Amphitheatre Hall” at the corporate head office in Marina, Lagos state.

Elumelu is one of Africa’s leading investors and philanthropists whose fingerprints are all over the success story of the financial institution that paid a total dividend of  N95.8bn for the 2023 financial year and just got overwhelming approval from shareholders to recapitalize as directed by the central bank of Nigeria.

Elumelu is the Chairman of the pan-African financial group that hit a market capitalization of over N1trillion on Monday, January 8, 2024. 

Themed, “Educate an African Fit for the 21st Century: Building Resilient Education Systems for Increased Access to Inclusive, Lifelong, Quality, and Relevant Learning in Africa,”,

the Africa Day celebration by the bank celebrating its 75th anniversary is “aimed at encouraging Africans home and abroad to be patriotic and embrace their culture.”

Speaking on UBA’s theme for this year’s Africa Day Celebration, Group Chief Executive Officer Oliver Alawuba stated “We are in 20 African countries and four countries outside Africa.

” Our focus has always been on not only driving investments into Africa but also to empower Africa’s youth by honing the critical thinking prowess of our youth as well as groom them for leadership roles across the continent.”

The Group Executive Officer of the bank with the vision “to be the role model for African Businesses” added that

“Unity is critical and very important for the future of Africa, we need to remain united to achieve our aspirations and the youth are critical to that growth”