The board of United Bank for Africa, on Monday, announced some key senior level appointments to strengthen some areas of its operations, including Mr. Emeke Iweriebor, as Executive Director in charge of Corporate Banking as well as the bank’s operations in Lagos and entire Western Region of Nigeria covering Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Kwara, Edo and Delta states.
Iweriebor, whose appointment is subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was before now Deputy chief executive, UBA Africa, and at different times the pioneer MD/CEO, UBA Cameroon and later the CEO, UBA Central, East and Southern Africa.
Apart from Emeke, the group also appointed Puri Ibrahim, Head, North Central Bank; Emmanuel Onokpasa as Group Treasurer and Emem Etuk as Deputy Directorate Head of Abuja & East Bank. Emem will double-hat as Regional Bank Head Cross River and Akwa Ibom.
For the bank’s African operations, Mr. Emmanuel Nnorom, the group’s erstwhile Executive Director in charge of Risk Management, has been appointed CEO, UBA Africa. Nnorom was appointed Executive Director in 2008 and has held several senior level appointments since joining UBA Plc. Some of these include being the Group Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for Information Technology, Operations, Corporate Services, Marketing and Corporate communications, Customer Service, Facility & Real Estate Management, Human Resources and Regulatory Affairs.
In addition, according to a statement by Ramon Olanrewaju Nasir, Head, Media, a number of other senior level appointments were made in UBA Africa including 5 new country subsidiary CEOs, 1 country subsidiary Deputy Managing Director and 3 country subsidiary Executive Directors. These new appointees include Mamadou Sanon as MD/CEO of UBA Gabon; Amie Sow as MD/CEO of UBA Senegal; Marcel Bitang as MD/CEO of UBA Congo DRC; Martin Che as MD/CEO of UBA Congo Brazzaville; Stanley Ugwueze as MD/CEO of UBA Zambia; Ms. Abiola Bauwah as Deputy Managing Director of UBA Ghana; Benedict Nklama as Executive Director designate of UBA Kenya; Wilbrod Owor as Executive Director of UBA Uganda and Chinedu Obeta as Executive Director of UBA Sierra Leone.
Commenting, the group’s Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Phillips Oduoza said, “these appointments, which demonstrate the strength and quality of our succession policy, will enable the bank to continuously leverage on its qualified, dependable and efficient human resources to drive the achievement our strategic intent of being the first choice financial institution in Africa”.