Nigeria’s most innovative bank, Wema Bank Plc, is once again demonstrating its commitment to women empowerment by partnering with Shecan Nigeria to organize a conference to help Nigerian women realize their potentials and develop their capabilities.
Specifically, the partnership entails helping women and young female entrepreneurs attain their personal and business potential through mentoring and skill acquisition programs needed to improve their financial status.
Shecan Nigeria is a movement designed to drive a change in culture and perception of Today’s Woman, with its goal being to empower adolescent girls and women through strategic training, mentoring, counselling, vocational skill acquisition and community empowerment Initiatives; and grooming them to become change agents in their various communities and Industries.
Speaking at a press conference to announce the partnership, Wema Bank Plc’s Head of Marketing Communications and Investors’ Relations, Mrs. Funmilayo Falola, said Wema Bank was committed to the transformative ideals of women empowerment as a means of eradicating poverty from the society.
According to her, empowered women are good managers of resources, good business managers and great contributors to the household economy.
L-R MD/CEO MBR Signatures, Stanley Ezeani, Head Marketing Communications and Investor Relations Wema Bank, Funmilayo Falola, Convener SHECAN Conference, Ezinne Ezeani, Team Lead Gender Desk Wema Bank, Abiola Nejo, Team Lead Reputation Management Wema Bank, Morolake Philip-Ladipo at the Press Conference for the upcoming SHECAN Conference
Falola said the bank would continue to champion plausible causes that improve the socio-economic conditions of women in the country through empowerment, mentoring, skill acquisition and other impactful schemes.
The Convener, Shecan Conference, Ezinne Ezeani, thanked the bank for the high impact partnership, noting that many women had benefitted from the partnership.
According to her, “she can do more” is one core message they preach to the woman who because of her cultural values believe that her gender limits her possibilities in life and that men are better fit for some roles in the corporate and business world.
The latest partnership makes it the third consecutive year Wema Bank has partnered with SheCan Nigeria to organise the Shecan conference to empower women through training, counselling, and mentoring.
About Wema Bank
Regarded as Nigerian’s most innovative bank and the longest surviving indigenous Financial Institution in Nigeria, Wema Bank Plc has over the years, diligently offered a range of value-adding banking and financial advisory services to the Nigerian public for 77 years. Incorporated in 1945 as a Private Limited Liability Company under the old name of Agbonmagbe Bank Limited, it commenced banking operations in Nigeria in the same year. Wema Bank subsequently transformed into a Public Limited Liability Company (PLC) in April 1987 and was listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in January 1990. On February 5, 2001, Wema Bank Plc was granted a universal banking license by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), thus allowing the Bank to provide the Nigerian public with a diverse portfolio of financial and business advisory services.
Wema Bank offers retail banking, SME banking, corporate banking, treasury, trade services and financial advisory to its ever-expanding clientele. Operating a network of over 150 business offices backed by a robust ICT platform across Nigeria, we are committed to long-term sustainability in our business whilst maintaining the highest standards of social responsibility, corporate governance, and diversity in our operations.
For more information, please visit www.wemabank.com
