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Total assets. $21,667bn (2021) [3] Parent. Zenith Bank. Website. www.zenithbank.com. Zenith Bank Plc is a major financial services provider in Nigeria and Anglophone West Africa, headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos. It is licensed as a commercial bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the national banking regulator.
Nigerian. Occupation. Businessman. Jim James Ovia CFR CON (born 4 November 1951) is a Nigerian businessman and author. He is the founder of Zenith Bank, which he founded in 1990, [1] and is now the country's most profitable bank. [2][3][4] In 2018, Ovia published what he described as an "entrepreneurial manual" he called Africa Rise and Shine. [4]
Access Bank Plc. Fidelity Bank Plc. First City Monument Bank Limited. First Bank of Nigeria Limited. Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc. Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. United Bank for Africa Plc. Zenith Bank Plc. This is a list of commercial banks with National Authorization in Nigeria, arranged alphabetically: [1]
Harvard University. Occupations. Banker. entrepreneur. Years active. 1995–present. Known for. Zenith Bank PLC executive. Adaora Umeoji (born 8 February 1976) is a Nigerian business executive, appointed as GMD/CEO of Zenith Bank, taking office in June 2024. [1][2][3]
Kashim Shettima. Kashim Shettima Mustapha GCON (born 2 September 1966) is a Nigerian politician who is the 15th and current vice president of Nigeria. [1][2] He previously served as senator for Borno Central from 2019 to 2023, and as the governor of Borno State from 2011 to 2019. [3]
In March 1998, Access Bank changed its legal status and became a public limited company and in the same year, on November 18, entered the Nigeria Stock Exchange. In 2002, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was appointed managing director and Herbert Wigwe , Deputy Managing Director, with the mandate of raising the bank from 65th place to the top 10 in 2007.
In 1892, the African Banking Corporation and the Bank of British West Africa, now the First Bank of Nigeria, were established in Nigeria.In 1925, Due to some difficulties the bank folded up its activities and the Bank of British West Africa Limited (BBWA) was established to take over the activities of the African Banking Corporation.
Aigboje is the author of Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa (Red Door, 2020), a memoir that recounts how he and Herbert Wigwe bought Access Bank in 2002, one of the smallest and most crisis- prone banks in Nigeria, and built it into one of the biggest and strongest banks in the country.