{"id":72539,"date":"2020-03-26T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=72539"},"modified":"2020-03-26T12:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:56:39","slug":"united-bank-for-africauba-announces-n5-billionu14-million-for-covid-19-relief-support-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/united-bank-for-africauba-announces-n5-billionu14-million-for-covid-19-relief-support-across-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"United Bank For Africa(UBA) Announces N5 billion(U$14 million) For COVID-19 Relief Support Across Africa  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">MARCH 26, 2020<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0\u2013 United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) today announced a donation of over 5 billion Naira (USD14 million), through the UBA Foundation, to catalyse a comprehensive pan-African response to the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The donation will provide significant and much needed support to Nigeria and 19 other African countries, by supplying relief materials, critical care facilities, and financial support to Governments. The UBA support programme will be allocated as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\" type=\"square\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">N1 billion (USD2.8 million) to Lagos State Government in Nigeria<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">N500 million (USD1.4 million) to Nigeria\u2019s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">N1 billion (USD2.8 million) to the remaining 35 states in Nigeria<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">N1.5 billion (USD4.2 million) to UBA\u2019s presence countries in Africa<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">N1 billion (USD2.8 million) for Medical Centres with equipment and supplies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Free Telemedicine call centre facility<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The pan-African bank will fund a medical centre immediately in Lagos, Nigeria, with beds for isolation and ICU facilities, managed and operated in partnership with Heirs Holdings\u2019 healthcare subsidiary, Avon Medical Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In addition, UBA is providing a free telemedicine platform, that is physician-led, to provide direct access to medical advice to citizens, in compliance with social distancing requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">UBA Group Chairman Tony O. Elumelu, stated \u2018This is a time when we must all play our part.\u00a0 This global pandemic must bring citizens, governments and business leaders together \u2013 and quickly. As we see a rapidly increasing number of cases of the coronavirus in Nigeria and Africa, the private sector has to work hand in hand with\u00a0various Governments, in stemming the spread of the global pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We commend the efforts of governments and we are keen to partner and contribute our resources to the collective effort, that will ensure the response to the pandemic is swift and effective\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Operating in 20 African countries and globally in the United Kingdom, the United States and France, the United Bank for Africa has a strong record of supporting its communities, through challenging times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 26, 2020\u00a0\u2013 United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) today announced a donation of over 5 billion Naira (USD14 million), through the UBA Foundation, to catalyse a comprehensive pan-African response&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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