{"id":54057,"date":"2021-11-23T08:23:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=54057"},"modified":"2021-11-23T08:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T07:23:35","slug":"heritage-bank-ceo-wins-banker-of-year-smes-agric-2021-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/heritage-bank-ceo-wins-banker-of-year-smes-agric-2021-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Bank CEO Wins Banker Of Year SMEs & Agric 2021 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria most innovative service provider has been adjudged Banker of the Year 2021 under SMEs and Agric category, which was awarded to the MD\/CEO of the Bank, Ifie Sekibo.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bank won the prestigious award at the New Telegraph 2021 Awards in recognition of its leadership position in delivering sterling development and growth of the Agricultural sector and the Small and Medium Enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Presenting the award to Sekibo, earlier in a letter to congratulate him for his nomination as the Banker of the Year (SMEs & Agric) of the year 2021, the Managing Director\/Editor-in-Chief, Ayodele Aminu explained, \u201cafter a thorough scrutiny of Heritage Bank\u2019s laudable support for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), as well the country\u2019s agricultural sector, in the last one year by our Panel of Judges and Editors, we at the New Telegraph 2021 are pleased to award Heritage Bank, Banker of the Year (SMEs & Agric).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Receiving the award on behalf of the bank\u2019s CEO, the Executive Director, Jude Monye stated that the Bank was honoured and motivated to do more for the sustainability and growth of the Agric and SME sectors following the award received from New Telegraph newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are highly honoured to receive the award as the Banker of the Year (SMEs & Agric) from the Board and Management of New Telegraph Newspaper. This validates the hard work and success story of the bank to create, preserve and transfer wealth across generations, as amongst other sectors of the economy, we have continued to ensure our efforts to support the Agric and SMEs sector in Nigeria counts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a result that will continue to motivate us to deepen our supports to Agric, SMEs sector and the economy at large for sustainable growth,\u201d he assured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sekibo vowed that in line with its core mandate to create and transfer generational wealth, the bank would continue to make farming profitable to stakeholders and attractive to the youth, as Heritage Bank had taken the front seat in financing critical agricultural projects in several states in the country, especially in Oyo, Kaduna and Zamfara and recently in Plateau Jos.<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted that most of the ventures in the agriculture sector fall within the Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSME) sectors of the economy, which Heritage Bank in close collaboration with CBN has been championing.<\/span><\/p>

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According to him, in complimenting the efforts of the Central Bank, Heritage Bank has made a huge success of the established agricultural schemes by making funds available to both small holder farmers and SMEs (Prime Anchors) in their efforts to increase agricultural output especially rice and wheat productions.<\/span><\/p>\n

He explained that Heritage Bank has deepened support of small holders\u2019 farmers and anchors in Ogun, Niger and recently Plateau state in rice and wheat seed and grain production under Prime ABP, which would help tackle gaps inherent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHeritage Bank in partnership with CBN is set to reverse the adverse trends by eliminating dependence on imported wheat which currently stands at over $2 Billion and the unavailability of high yield wheat seed that stands at 63,000 MT through a strategic approach which would facilitate import substitution and promote self-sufficiency in the wheat value chain in Nigeria, by funding the local production of wheat and encouraging backward integration by wheat millers,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Heritage Bank has recorded notable success stories in the Agric and SMEs\u2019 spaces which in 2017 the bank won the maiden award from CBN for Sustainable Transaction of the Year in Agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, Heritage Bank emerged as a winner in the Agriculture Category during the year\u2019s CBN Sustainable Transaction of the year award. The Nigeria Agriculture Awards (NAA), announced Heritage Bank as the Agric. Bank of the Year. According to NAA, Heritage Bank was selected in recognition of its footprints in the Agribusiness space.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019\/2020, Heritage Bank secured mandate as Transaction Advisers and Settlement Bank on Agribusiness and Solid Minerals to Lagos Commodities & Futures Exchange.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Caption: From Right–Ayodele Aminu, MD\/Editor-in-Chief, New Telegraph Newspaper; Jude Monye, Executive Director, Heritage Bank Plc; Titilola Docemo, Regional Head, Lagos Island 2A; Olugbenga Awe, Divisional Head, Agric Finance & Export;\u00a0 Ozena Utulu, Ag. Group Head, Corporate Communications, Adelana Ogunjirin, Head, Agric Finance, Agribusiness, Natural Resources & Project Dev.; Blaise Udunze, Team Lead, Media and External Relations at the New Telegraph Awards, where Heritage Bank won the Banker of the Year (SMEs & Agric) of the year 2021, weekend in Lagos.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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