{"id":75952,"date":"2020-09-28T05:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=75952"},"modified":"2020-09-28T05:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:26:26","slug":"gmd-uba-kennedy-uzoka-wins-coveted-zik-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/gmd-uba-kennedy-uzoka-wins-coveted-zik-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"GMD UBA, Kennedy Uzoka, wins Coveted Zik Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
The Group Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer, United Bank for<\/div>\n
\n
Africa (UBA) Plc, Kennedy Uzoka, has been announced as a winner of the
\n2019 Zik Award for Professional Leadership.<\/p>\n

Uzoka clinched the much-coveted award alongside the Executive Vice
\nChairman\/Chief Executive Officer at the Nigerian Communications
\nCommission, Prof Umar Danbatta.<\/p>\n

The Zik Leadership award is organised by the Public Policy Research and
\nAnalysis Centre (PPRAC) and is instituted 25 years ago, in 1995, in
\nhonour of the first President of Nigeria, Late Dr Nnamdi Azikwe,
\nprimarily to encourage and nurture leadership on the African Continent
\nand in the Diaspora.<\/p>\n

The UBA GMD and others were announced winners in a letter signed by the
\nMember Advisory Board, PPRAC, Professor Pat Utomi, and Executive
\nsecretary, Emeka Obasi, which stated that Uzoka was chosen as a result
\nof his outstanding contributions to the development and growth of the
\nBanking and Financial Services Industry and unblemished record of
\nservice as a banker of international repute.<\/p>\n

The letter read, “The GMD\/CEO, of Africa’s global bank, UBA Plc, Mr.
\nKennedy Uzoka is a banker’s banker and an astute player in the Nigerian
\nfinancial services sector. He has consistently led the Bank to set a
\nyear-on-year track record of profitability, wealth creation, and
\ninnovative financial products across its operations in the African
\ncontinent despite global economic challenges.
\nContinuing, it said, “Kennedy Uzoka continues to lead his team in
\nchalking newer and higher credits by the day. Not even the current
\nchallenge of COVID-19 has been a dampener as the bank under his watch
\ncontinues to scale new frontiers and post assuring results.”<\/p>\n

Apart from Uzoka and Danbatta, other winners in various categories of
\npublic service, good governance, business, and professional leadership
\nincluded Senate President Ahmed Lawan; Borno Governor, Professor
\nBabagana Umara Zulum; Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa; Oyo State
\nGovernor, Seyi Makinde; SGF, Boss Mustapha; Dr. Stella Okolli amongst
\nothers.<\/p>\n

The PPRAC which is celebrating the silver jubilee anniversary of the Zik
\nPrize in leadership awards pointed out that in the last 25 years, some
\nother notable leaders have been recipients of the prize such as;
\nPresident J.J. Rawlings, President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Dr Salim
\nAhmed Salim, President Sam Nujoma, Dr. Nelson Mandela, President Yoweri
\nMuseveni, President John Agyekum Kufuor, Senator David Mark, Alhaji
\nYayale Ahmed, Otunba Subomi Balogun, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
\nAlhaji Ahmed Joda and Mr Godwin Emefiele.<\/p>\n

Whilst congratulating Uzoka and the UBA family, the organisers noted
\nthat the formal presentation ceremony of The Zik Prize awards will be a
\ncelebratory event to be held on Sunday 6th December 2020.<\/p>\n

Uzoka is a renowned African business executive, with vast experience in
\nbanking, business development, financial and business advisory,
\nstrategic planning, and execution as well as human resource management.
\nHe is an advocate of disruptive technology and has led to much game
\nchanging innovations in the African banking industry over the past two
\ndecades of his career.<\/p>\n

Kennedy holds a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
\nBenin and an MBA from the University of Lagos. He is an alumnus of the
\nAdvanced Management Program (AMP) of the Harvard Business School, Boston
\nUSA, the International Institute of Management Development (IMS) in
\nLausanne, Switzerland, and the London Business School, United Kingdom.
\nKennedy is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in
\nNigeria (CIBN).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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