Accra, November 6, 2017//-Madam Abiola Bawuah, the MD/CEO of the United Bank for Africa Ghana, a subsidiary of UBA Plc, a leading pan African banking group operating in 19 countries, has picked up another award.
Her outstanding achievements and dynamism in the banking industry was celebrated with the award of the Finance Personality of the Year, at the just ended Ghana Accountancy and Finance Awards.
When Mrs Bawuah took over the reins at UBA Ghana in 201, she was faced with developing programmes and strategies that would enable the bank meet up with the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG’s) second round of recapitalization which commenced that year (2013).
A few years on, her impact has been obvious. In 2016, UBA Ghana Limited announced its unaudited financial results, showing a remarkable 134 percent growth year-on-year in profit before tax.
The bank also recorded significant positive performances in other headline numbers, with a 114 percent growth in Gross Earnings, and 68 percent growth in Customer Deposits.
This resulted in the bank being adjudged the “Best Bank – Product Innovation and Services” and first runner-up for the Best Financial Performance at the 2017 Ghana Banking Awards (GBA).
Receiving the latest award, Mrs Bawuah who is the current CIMG Marketing Woman of the Year, thanked the organisers for the great recognition.
She said: “Tonight; allow me a moment to dedicate this award to all hardworking Ghanaians, to my board, family, staff, customers, my Regional CEO, Mr. Oliver Alawuba and the Group Managing Director, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka for their great support and direction so far. I would also like to immeasurably thank the Group Chairman of UBA Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu for his inspiring leadership and entrepreneurial drive”.
“I would like to challenge everyone here to keep up with the good job. It is through hard work that we can collectively build this country. Through hard work we would make history and challenge the future generation to even do better”, Mrs Bawuah added.
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