Reason Behind Unity Bank Partners 2018 Young Professionals Mentoring Initiative

Unity Bank has partnered with Young Professionals Breakfast Roundtable to push the frontiers of mentorship as a prerequisite for business/career success among youths in the country at the 2018 edition of the youth programme that took place at the MUSON Centre in Lagos.

Unity Bank MD/CEO Mrs. Tomi Somefun, who was among the over fifty Chief Executives of companies and ventures that facilitated the 2018 programme, enjoined participants to see “pursuit for greatness as a process rather than a one-off-event”.

The programme, tagged ‘YP 2018’, is the third edition and Mrs. Somefun has facilitated in all the sessions in the past three years. The commitment of Unity Bank Plc matches the enthusiasm of promoter of the Young Professions Breakfast Roundtable, Mr Wale Adenuga, a multi-talented entrepreneur whose initiative assembles an array of accomplished professionals cutting across sectors periodically to mentor up-coming professionals.

For Mrs. Somefun, the motivation to participate as one of the facilitators of the programme lies in the discovery of the impact mentors have had in redirecting the mentees towards the options they could leverage on to attain success in life.
This disposition, according to Mrs. Somefun, also aligns with the current thinking in Unity Bank which enabled the bank to make significant inroad into the youth market segment through the introduction of youth-centric product, particularly the recently launched UniFi app, as a model for promoting financial inclusion among the unbanked youth/students. Unifi is a banking product tailored to allow youths to carry out financial transactions with ease. It is developed as a lifestyle app to enable customers do more banking on digital platform and from anywhere, anytime in their comfort zones.