A 15-year-old student of Metro International School, Abuja, Khaira Ojima Bala, has won the 16th UBA Foundation National Essay Competition, receiving a N15m educational grant to study at any university in Africa.
Oliver Alawuba, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of UBA, made the call in Abuja during the celebration of Brazil’s National Day, hosted by the Embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil in Nigeria.
Alawuba spoke at the 19th Annual Banking and Finance Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) in Abuja on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
Nigeria’s top policymakers, financial regulators, banking executives, fintech innovators, economists and capital market operators will gather in Lagos on September 19 and 20, 2026, for the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria’s (FICAN) 36th Anniversary Annual Conference.
August 09, (THEWILL) — On August 21, 2026, one of the longest-serving and most influential boardroom gurus in Nigeria's corporate governance world and financial services industry will step aside. He is Mr Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu.
After 12 years, Elumelu will...
Hakeem Belo-Osagie says buying UBA was meant to be an investment, not a lifelong banking career.
He discovered the bank was effectively bankrupt weeks after the acquisition and spent years rebuilding it.
The turnaround came with mass restructuring,...
July 5 (THEWILL) — Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has rewarded thousands of customers with over ₦400 million in anniversary bonuses under its flagship UBA Bumper Account, reaffirming the Bank’s unwavering commitment to rewarding customer...
June 10, (THEWILL) — United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has been named the winner of the African category at the 2026 Banker Technology Awards, recognised for its innovations in digital payments, e-business, and the use of artificial intelligence...
May 05, (THEWILL) — United Bank for Africa (UBA), Redtech, and MoMo PSB have launched a payment interoperability partnership that expands cardless payment access for consumers and merchants across Nigeria. Redtech is backed by Heirs Holdings; MoMo PSB is...
April 27, (THEWILL) — United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc says it is intensifying efforts to recover outstanding loans and expects to resume dividend payments to shareholders in 2026, despite a sharp decline in profit triggered by a major...
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ), announced the coordinated enforcement actions. It said the operations targeted two major cryptocurrency theft schemes attributed to North Korean government-linked hackers, whose activities have become a significant source of revenue for the country's regime and its illicit weapons programmes.
