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Debonair Oliver Alawuba ups the ante at UBA

Debonair Oliver Alawuba ups the ante at UBA

11 August, 2022

In the very competitive banking and financial sector generally, the success and fortunes of any bank depends on the agility, drive, innovativeness and upward mobility of the person at the helm of affairs, and this to a large extent depends on the kind of managerial skills, astuteness, smartness, business acumen and above all, the proficiency of the person deploys and brings to play in his organization.

One of the men with this mien and wowing wealth of experience is the game-changing banking wizard, Oliver Alawuba, has appointed at the Africa’s leading financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA Plc) as the new Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Many don’t know about him about his antecedents of this erstwhile Deputy Managing Director and his large and unhide contributions to the bank at Anglophone Africa countries with his over twenty years of work experience in the banking industry and the academia.  This is on account of his track record at his last duty post. Oliver is surely up to the task. 

He was at various times an Executive Director at Finbank Nigeria Plc (now FCMB Plc), MD/CEO of UBA Ghana Ltd, MD/CEO of UBA West Africa, Directorate Head, Public Sector and Personal Banking and Regional CEO, UBA Africa – Anglophone.

He has B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Food Science and Technology and MBA in Banking and Finance. He is an alumnus of the AMP and SEP programmes of the prestigious Insead Business School, France, and London Business School respectively and also a Fellow of Nigerian Institute of Management and Honorary Senior Member of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.