WEMA BANK HOSTS WEBINAR TO MARK IWD 2021

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nigeria’s leading innovative bank&comma; Wema Bank Plc&period;&comma; through its female proposition&comma; Sara by Wema will also mark this year’s International Women’s Day &lpar;IWD&rpar; with a webinar on Friday&comma; March 12 by 10&period;00 am&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 90 minutes’ event themed &OpenCurlyQuote;Challenge Today for an Equal Tomorrow’ will have key industry experts and leading female corporate policy influencers in the Nigerian financial&comma; investment&comma; talent development and management ecosystem as panellists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The webinar aims at speaking to women on challenging societal norms to reach their full potential in entrepreneurship&comma; the workplace&comma; or personal lives&period; The Executive Director&comma; Business Support&comma; Wema Bank&comma; Folake Sanu will host the webinar&comma; while Team Lead&comma; Business Process Re-Engineering&comma; Wema Bank&comma; Chika Adun&comma; will moderate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other panellists include Founder&comma; Green Investment Club and certified financial education instructor&comma; Tomie Balogun&semi; global leadership development expert&comma; Dupe Akinsiun&comma; and Chief Knowledge Officer&comma; Wofin Tech Limited&comma; Omilola Oshikoya&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Commenting on the importance of the webinar&comma; Head&comma; Brands and Marketing Communications&comma; Wema Bank Plc&period; Funmilayo Falola&comma; reiterated the institution’s belief in female empowerment and equity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At Wema Bank&comma; gender sensitivity and diversity are second to none – it is at the heart of our operations&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the 2021 IWD celebration&comma; we are poised to entrench the importance of equity across the board as a sustainable voice for women to rise above every known challenge to the pinnacle of career excellence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Our proposition&comma; SARA&comma; is a testimony that affirms Wema Bank’s commitment to towards the development of women and girls says Abiola Nejo&comma; Head&comma; Gender Banking<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This year’s webinar is part of a week-long social media and online engagement with Wema Bank’s customers to share contemporary knowledge&comma; deepening technology and financial inclusion for their business growth whilst growing the nation’s GDP&period; The bank also plans to use the webinar platform to launch its new gender loan offering for female business owners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Interested participants can register for the webinar through https&colon;&sol;&sol;us02web&period;zoom&period;us&sol;webinar&sol;register&sol;WN&lowbar;HlLY84P7RfeqBZBo8RNg6A<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;