Covid 19: Firstbank donates N1 billion as commitment to all Nigerian’s safety

&NewLine;<p>FirstBank&comma; premier Bank in West Africa and Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion bank for over 125 years&comma;  has announced its donation of the sum of N1bn towards the joint effort by the Nigerian Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 &lpar;CACOVID&rpar; to rapidly expand the health facilities&semi; especially Testing&comma; Isolation&comma; treatment and the provision of Intensive Care Unit &lpar;ICU&rpar; facilities pivotal to controlling the spread and importantly&comma; treating individuals diagnosed with COVID- 19&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This is in addition to the&NewLine;Bank’s drive to move one million children to e-learning&comma; together with an early&NewLine;partner – Roducate &&num;8211&semi; as recommended by the Ministry of Education&comma; Lagos State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This information is contained&NewLine;in a statement signed by Folake Ani-Mumuney&comma; Group Head&comma; Marketing&NewLine;&amp&semi; Corporate Communications and made&NewLine;available to OpenLife on Tuesday&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The statement stated that in&NewLine;line with the 14-day stay home directive for Lagos&comma; Ogun and FCT Abuja in the&NewLine;speech by President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; the Bank has also reiterated its&NewLine;preparedness to provide essential Banking services through its alternative&NewLine;channels to its customers and the public at large which is in line with its&NewLine;robust Business Continuity Plan&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Updating on the Bank’s&NewLine;efforts&semi; the Bank’s CEO&comma; Dr&period; Adesola Adeduntan&comma; said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we promise to continue to&NewLine;look at all areas of intervention where our business infrastructure&comma; reach&comma;&NewLine;digital platforms and other natural strengths lie and can be deployed to&NewLine;further support all efforts for Nigerians&semi; young and old alike&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>To that end&comma; we will continue&NewLine;to communicate ways in which we can do more together&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>We thank our community of&NewLine;friends&comma; customers and other stakeholders who have continued to send us ideas&NewLine;and initiatives and are gladdened at the solidarity we see as Nigerians come&NewLine;together to tackle this under one umbrella&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Please stay safe and let’s&NewLine;work together to flatten the curve”&comma; he concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;