_ Outgone Group Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka(left); Group Chairman, Mr. Tony Elumelu ; and New Group Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Oliver Alawuba, at the corporate event to announce the new GMD and Executive Directors for United Bank for Africa(UBA) Group,, held at the Tony Elumelu Amphitheatre, UBA House, Lagos ….yesterday_
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has assured its loyal customers that the Super Savers draws would be better in 2023 as it lines up different reward programmes that would run throughout the year.
Head, Retail, Digital, and Transaction Banking of the bank, Sampson Aneke, disclosed this at the Super Savers draw held in the bank’s headquarters in Lagos last weekend where 66 customers won prizes worth N22.7 million.
At the draws, 20 lucky customers with Kiddies and teen accounts won N200, 000 educational grants each, 10 customers with NextGen Accounts won N180, 000 pocket money for one year at N15, 000 each monthly while 10 Savings Accounts customers won N1 million each.
Under the UBA Bumper accounts, 20 customers won N100, 000 each, one customer won N500,000 shopping allowance and one customer also won N1.2 million house rent for a year.
One lucky account holder also won N1 million in the Domiciliary Account category, while a lucky customer also went home with the grand prize of N2 million.
At the event, there were surprise draws for customers who attended as two of them won N100,000 each.
Aneke said the bank was excited with the enthusiasm shown by its customers and promised that the 2023 edition of the promo would see more winners with quarterly draws expected to hold.
“We have seen that people appreciated the draws, which is the most important thing. When the promo was going on, people were responding positively. And when you see what your customers want, you can only do it better so that more people will enjoy it.
“Today we rewarded about 66 people and next year, we are going to have almost three or four times that budget of those who are going to be rewarded because we started the project midway in the year, but now next year, we will have full-blown 12 months to do various campaigns. So we are going to reward more people and we are going to pay more and it will get better.
“Let me add here that the bank is not doing this for profit purposes. Every good corporate organization has what they call a CSR budget. That’s corporate social responsibility. This is part of our CSR initiative to give back to the society that has been sweating with us and is our mainstay in the business,” he said.
On where the bank stands in the financial inclusion drive being supported by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Aneke said: “In financial inclusion, I can say we are doing very well. Today, in the industry, we are number three. If you talk about agents’ acquisition now, we are number three and I can assure you that by next year, our target is to be number one.
“And l if I tell you what happened in the last two months you will see we will soon get to number one. We are number one in the October and November report, but when you aggregate the full year, we are number three. If you judge us for the last two months, we are number one in the industry, and we are not going to drop again.
“And by the time we run six months that way, we will cover the shortfalls that will make us number one. We would like to do what will benefit our people and align with the regulatory desire and strategy.”
