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Access Bank Plc has raised $2.2 million (N800 million) to support vulnerable children during the finale of the annual Access Bank’s UNICEF Charity Shield Polo tournament in partnership with Fifth Chukker held at the prestigious Guards Polo Club, Windsor, United Kingdom. The lender sees the game of Polo as an avenue to deepen its commitment […]
Access Bank held its prestigious annual Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Awards over the weekend to celebrate the achievement and commitment of its staff members. The Afro-infused black tie event which held at the Landmark Event Center in Lagos showcased great performances from the staff themselves, fun set pieces with palm wine cocktails, Pan-African Cuisines and […]
Access Bank Plc has disclosed that its ‘W’ Academy, in partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Lagos Business School (LBS), recently organised a professional business capacity-building workshop for 500 female entrepreneurs in Port-Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos. These capacity building initiatives across the three states took place in the last four months and served […]
Access Bank Plc has released its unaudited financial results for the first quarter (Q1) ended March 31, 2018 showing an increase of 19% in gross earnings to N137.5 billion from N116 billion in the corresponding period of March 2017, with interest income and non-interest income contributing 70% and 30% respectively. The Bank recorded a Profit […]
The GBCHealth’s Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA), alongside the Private Sector Malaria Prevention Project (PSMP) at the John Hopkins Center for Communication, UK Aid and the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ghana Health Services, have conferred the ‘Innovation Award’ on Access Bank and other significant awards to four other organisations for their […]
The on-going promotional campaign by Access Bank Plc tagged ‘Family Fortune’ Promo has produced the first winner of a family home. The family of Celestine Ikwuka Obinabor, currently a tenant and resident of Oka Afa in Ejigbo area of Lagos won one of the 3 four-bedroom terrace houses located in highbrow Lekki area of Lagos […]
THE FACTS BEHIND THE PURPORTED CHARGES BY THE INDEPENDENT CORRUPT PRACTICES AND OTHER RELATED OFFENCES COMMISSION AGAINST ACCESS BANK PLC AND ITS OFFICERS. Our attention has been drawn to recent news reports in some newspapers and online publications which suggest that Access Bank Plc (‘the Bank’) and its principal officers were recently arraigned in court […]
Photo Caption: From Left: Bola Adeeko, Head, Corporate Services Division, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Oscar Onyema, Chief Executive Officer, NSE; Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc and Roosevelt Ogbonna, Group Deputy General Manager Director, Access Bank Plc during Access Bank Plc’s 2018 – 2022 Group Strategy Presentation at The Nigerian Stock Exchange […]
… Targets 30m Clients As part of its global expansion drive, Access Bank Plc on Monday launched a five-year strategy aimed at achieving a 30 million customer- base and to rank as number one bank in Nigeria in terms of returns on equity. The bank said “The new five-year strategy will accelerate this growth story […]
Access Bank Plc plans to pursue organic growth in Ghana rather than mergers & acquisitions after the central bank raised the minimum capital requirement for lenders in the West African country, its group chief executive said on Tuesday. Ghana’s central bank in September raised the minimum capital required for banks threefold to 400 million cedis […]