Six female top executives calling the shots in the banking and finance sector have been inducted into the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Nigeria. They include the Managing Director of First City Monument Bank, Yemisi Edun; Kafilat Araoye, the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Lotus Bank; Bukola Smith, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of FSDH Merchant; Ireti Samuel-Ogbu, the Chief Executive Officer of Citibank; Adaeze Udensi, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Titan Trust Bank and Nneka Onyeali-Ikepe, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank.
The CIBN fellowship is the highest cadre of membership of the Institute conferred on Individuals as a symbol of lifetime achievements and successes after each person must have fulfilled certain criteria, such as being an associate member of the institute for at least 10 years, holding a senior management position in the finance and banking sector, completing the fellowship form, attending pre-investiture CCPD programme, to be considered by the board of fellows as fit and proper for the fellowship. They must have fulfilled all finance obligations before investiture. All the new fellowship members have had an outstanding contribution to the sector where they are serving and the Nigeria economy in general. They had to be rewarded by the CIBN to acknowledge their roles and invaluable contributions to the Institute, the banking industry and Nigeria economy as a whole.
