One of the leading Financial Service institutions
in Sierra Leone United Bank for Africa (UBA), has appointed Mr. Usman Isiaka as
its new MD/CEO taking over from Mr. Chinedu Obeta that has served the bank for
a period of 10 years with sterling performance record.
Usman Isiaka is a Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a consummate banker
with over two decades banking experience at senior management level cutting
across Internal Control, Audit, Compliance, Risk Management, Operations,
Marketing and Business Development functions.
He joined UBA Group in year 2000 and
has since served in various roles starting with Internal Control and Audit
functions as Group Head, Internal Control; Director, Audit & Control UBA
Africa and Deputy Group Chief Inspector at different points in time – a
responsibility that provided him field work experience across 21 out of the 23
presence countries of UBA Group before he moved into sales and marketing
function in January 2014.
Since the switch, Usman has served as
the Deputy Managing Director of UBA Ghana between January 2014 and May 2016;
Regional Bank Head in Lagos (Nigeria) overseeing marketing and business
development functions in a total of 56 branches between June 2016 and February
2018 and thereafter as MD/CEO of UBA Tanzania from March 2018 before his
posting to UBA Sierra Leone as Country CEO.
Mr. Usman Isiaka New MD/CEO
Usman Isiaka is coming with a wealth
of experience to continue to position UBA as a leading and dominant financial
institution in Sierra Leone in line with the Group’s aspiration.
UBA Sierra Leone is a member of UBA
Group, a pan African financial institution with presence in 20 Africa countries
and 3 global financial service centres; namely New York, London and Paris
providing services to over 18 million customers across over 1000 branches and
touch points.
Guineans went to the polls
on Sunday October 18 to elect a new president, amidst extreme pre-election
tension and violence between supporters of the country’s two main political
parties.
So tense was the atmosphere
in Guinea six months before the elections, up to the eve of the elections that
the Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament and a delegation visited the country about
a week to observe the election and caution the government, parliamentarians,
political stakeholders and the entire nation …
Persons of Interest (POIs)
who were indicted by the recommendations of the somewhat controversial
Commission of Inquiry (COI) and the accompanying government’s White Paper
recently released, are reportedly urged to file an appeal at the Appeals Court
to prove their innocence, else they run the risk of being guilty as charged.
Already, the 90 days
ultimatum for POIs to seek redress at the Appeals Court is slowly elapsing and
very few individuals mentioned in the said report have so far report…
Running out of patience, the presiding
Magistrate of Pademba Road Court No. 1, Hannah Bonnie has made it categorically
clear that Osman Karankay Conteh and thirty other residents of Lunsar will
remain in remand if their solicitors fail to turn up in court.
The thirty one accused persons are before her on
Preliminary Investigation for alleged murder of the nephew of Paramount Chief
Bai Koblo Queen II of Marampa Chiefdom and for setting ablaze his properties
worth over ele…
Magistrate Elizabeth Sheila Bangura Jalloh of
Pademba Road Court No7 has committed the matter of Sylvester Foday Bangura, a
SSS 1 pupil of Saint Edwards Secondary School to the High Court for proper
trial.
The offender in the above action was arraigned
before her for Preliminary Investigation after he was alleged to have killed
one Mohamed Sesay by stabbing him in his neck at Congo Town field.
Delivering her ruling shortly after the matter
was mentioned by …
The Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Works
and Public Asset chaired by the Deputy Leader of Government Business in
Parliament, Hon. Bashiru Silike has on Monday, 19th October, 2020
embarked on a nationwide parliamentary oversight on road contractors in the
country.
The purpose of the oversight exercise, according
to the Chairman is to ascertain the operational work done and other challenges
affecting those roads.
DHL Express, the world’s leading international
express service provider, has been recognised as the second best place to work
in the world. The company ranked in the top 5 as one of the best workplaces in
the world.
In its 2020 employer ranking Great Place to Work
and FORTUNE recognised the extensive investments and implementations of various
initiatives to create a positive, motivating and appreciative working
atmosphere in more than 220 countries and territories.
One of the leading Financial Service institutions
in Sierra Leone United Bank for Africa (UBA), has appointed Mr. Usman Isiaka as
its new MD/CEO taking over from Mr. Chinedu Obeta that has served the bank for
a period of 10 years with sterling perfo…
Pan- African financial institution, United Bank for Africa,
(UBA Plc), continues to lead in innovation with the launch of its dynamic and
creative Online Radio channel – RED Radio
RED Radio, powered by UBA is a lifestyle web platform that
has be…
Cabinet ministers are reported to be tossing and
turning unsure if their heads would fall under the guillotine when President
Bio announces the long awaited cabinet reshuffle very soon.
“It has been done and dusted,” a confidential State
House source told this press.
Whilst details of the reshuffle have been kept under
tight seal, it is certain, sources intimated, that some prominent high profiled
cabinet ministers will return to warming the bench whilst some significant new
players will …
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice,
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, popularly known as JFK, who represented former President
Koroma and several former Cabinet Ministers at the Commission of Inquiry (COI)
has blasted that the outcome of the COI was vindictive and a vendetta against
his clients.
JFK made the statement on BBC radio after the President
released the government Whitepaper on the recommendations contained in the Commission’s
report past Thursday.
Director General of the National Telecommunications Commission
(NATCOM), Daniel Bobson Kaitibi, six months into his leadership of the
Commission has extended thanks and appreciation to board, management and staff
for the tremendous support that they have provided the Deputy Director-General
and him exactly six months since their joint appointments by His Excellency
President Bio.
DG Kaitibi also took the opportunity to update the media and the
public on what they have achieved so far as a Co…
In his bid to be the party’s standard bearer for the 2023 national
elections, over the past weekend, the 2018 presidential flagbearer of the main
opposition All People’s Congress, Dr Samura Kamara visited the two northern
province headquarter distri…
In yesterday Monday edition, The Exclusive reported that the
United States Department of State has declared that the United States of
America will not issue almost all immigrant and non-immigrant visas to Sierra
Leoneans applying at the Embassy in Freetown.
This, the release said, is due to continued delays by the
Government of Sierra Leone to accept its citizens who are subject to a final
order of removal.
Now, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in a pre…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in this
third media release, wishes to update the general public of the actions and
steps it has taken to address critical issues raised in the Audit Reports of
Sierra Leone 2015 – 2018. These interventions focused on aspects of possible,
or alleged corruption, and conducts inconsistent with the provision(s) in the
Anti-Corruption Act of 2008.
After a thorough review, and analysis of the
aforementioned Reports, a total of twenty-one (21) issues attr…
