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UBA celebrates staff in a night of glitz and glamour

March 20, 2015

It was a night of
glamour and glitz on Saturday, March 14, 2015 as United Bank for Africa (UBA)
Plc rolled out the red carpet to celebrate staff that have shown excellence,
dedication and outstanding performance in their assigned duties in the 2014
financial year.

Group
Managing Director/CEO, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza(5th
from right) with award recipients during the Annual UBA CEO Awards
organised to reward star performers across the Group, in Lagos on
Saturday

Tagged the
“CEO Awards”, and now in its seventh year, it brings together board
members, executive and senior management, shareholders, staff and the esteemed
customers of the bank in celebration of individuals and business units that
have excelled in realizing the bank’s business targets.

The highlight of
the event was the handing over of 23 awards broadly grouped into two major
categories namely; “Customer Service” awards and “Deposit / Income” Awards.

l-r: Chairman
of First Bank Holding Company Plc, Dr. Oba Otudeko; Chairman, United Bank for
Africa (UBA) Plc. Mr Tony Elumelu; President of Institute of Directors, Chief
Eniola Fadayomi; and Group Managing Director, UBA Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza, at
the Annual UBA CEO Awards.

“This is a night to
celebrate publicly our people who have demonstrated very high performance. It
is also to show the public that performance is the only language the bank
understands. We are here to celebrate hard work, dedication and innovation in
our staff” said Phillips Oduoza, Group Managing Director/CEO of the UBA Group
in a chat with the media at prestigious Eko Hotel and Suites where the event
took place.

The UBA Group Lions
FC, the bank’s football club which lifted the Banker’s Cup for the fifth time
in 2014 were also celebrated on the night as they formally presented the cup to
the GMD/CEO of the UBA Group, Mr. Phillips Oduoza.

l-r: President
of Nigerian Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Pinnick; Captain of UBA Lions
Fc, winners of 2014 Nigerian Bankers Games, Mr Chuka Nwachucku ; and the Group
Managing Director/CEO, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza,
at the Annual UBA CEO Awards.

“The winners
are great examples of what we expect of all staff, departments and business
units. They are the touch bearers of business excellence that every staff
should seek to emulate.” Mr. Oduoza said.

Also speaking at
the awards night, Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman, UBA Group and under whose tenure
seven years ago as the GMD/CEO of the UBA Group, the awards were instituted
said “CEO Awards, presents an opportunity to appreciate staff from the 19
African countries where the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc is present, while
showcasing the achievements, culture and vibrancy of our business.”

He said the CEO
awards night has become the flagship event of the UBA Group.

l-r; Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc. Mr Tony
Elumelu; an award recipient and Managing Director, UBA Kenya, Mr. Isaac Mwige;
and Group Managing Director, UBA Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza, at the Annual
UBA CEO Awards.

The awards
attracted captains of industry and friends of the bank from different walks of
life.

Professor Sylvester
Monye, Chairman, Governing Council of the African Institute of Public Policy
(AIPP), who was one the guests at the awards night, commended UBA for staging
such an elaborate show to celebrate their staff. He also commended the bank for
making banking accessible across Africa.

The night, which
was full of entertainment from major Nigeria acts including Flavour, Wande Cole
and P2, was full fun and camaraderie as staff, management and customers let
down the formality of the work environment and mixed freely, discussing
non-work related issues, dancing to their favourite music tunes, or laughing to
rib cracking jokes and getting to meet family members of each other.

l-r: Chairman,
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc. Mr Tony Elumelu; an award recipient and
Business Manager, Admiralty Way Business Office, Mrs Adetola Juyitan; and Group
Managing Director, UBA Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza, at the Annual UBA CEO
Awards.

On stage was popular
comedian, Basket Mouth, who entertained guests with rib cracking jokes. There
was also a unique performance from Muson Centre Ochestra that kept guests
thrilled.

Guests were also
left pleasantly surprised by a unique performance of the night when a visual
artist started an artwork puzzle, working on different sides of the artwork in
on three different canvasses, making it difficult to guess what he was putting
together until the artwork was assembled.

It revealed the
face of a beautiful African Child with a map of Africa showing all the
countries in which UBA has operations superimposed on it. The reveal drew a
huge applause from guests.

l-r: Executive
Director, Abuja and East Bank, Mr. Dan Okeke; Group Managing Director/CEO,
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza; Deputy CEO, UBA Africa,
Mr. Emeke Iweriebor; and Deputy Managing Director, Domestic Bank, Mr Apollos
Ikpobe, admiring the artwork drawn at the Annual UBA CEO Awards.

The CEO awards
celebration went deep into the early hours of Sunday as staff danced and
mingled in a great atmosphere of music, food and drinks. It was the one night
when the formality of the banking environment was dumped for the free spirit of
the party because it was a night to just celebrate outstanding achievement of
the staff, customers and friends of one of the most dominant financial
institutions in Africa.

See the highlights of the event as captured by webtvng.com