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UBA, AfDB sign $150m Loan Agreement<\/p>\n

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) have signed a US$ 150 million loan agreement to finance infrastructure and SME projects, including women-owned enterprises in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fund will support development of productive sectors of the economy; particularly the power sector, Infrastructure, Women owned enterprises as well as SMEs. This line of credit comes at an opportune time and would boost efforts at reducing the huge power sector-financing deficit that is limiting energy supply and complement our support to medium and small scale enterprises while also promoting gender diversification across the value chain\u201d said Kennedy Uzoka, UBA Group Managing Director\/CEO.<\/p>

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UBA, one of the largest commercial banks in Nigeria incorporated in 1961, operates in 19 African countries whilst providing a wide range of products and services. UBA Nigeria has been the leading financial institution to support various infrastructure projects, particularly power, telecom, transport and also social infrastructure such as hospital and education facilities, and received Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year Award in 2015. UBA Nigeria operates in each of the country\u2019s 36 states through more than 450 branches supporting 3,700 SMEs across the country.<\/p>\n

AfDB has remained UBA\u2019s long-term partner in its financing activities. In 2009, AfDB provided liquidity facilities to deepen its trade finance and other lending activities, thus contributing to key economic sectors of the Nigerian economy, particularly at a time when the economy requires critical funding to stimulate growth and employment.<\/p>\n

The loan agreement which was specifically signed on Wednesday, showed that by leveraging UBA\u2019s branch network, the Line of Credit will also scale up lending to SMEs and women enterprises in both urban and rural areas to create more jobs and to promote inclusive growth for Nigeria\u2019s economy by stimulating the various sectors such as manufacturing, construction, agriculture, education and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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