The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, United Bank
for Africa (UBA) Plc, Kennedy Uzoka, was on Sunday night presented
with The Zik Prize for Professional Leadership.
The award was presented by the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, under the chairmanship of Nobel Laureate,
Professor Wole Soyinka at a glamorous event held at the Civic Centre in
Lagos, and organised by Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre(PPRAC)
Uzoka was announced as the winner of the highly coveted award
alongside the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer at the Nigerian
Communications Commission, Prof Umar Danbatta.
As he applauded the efforts of the organisers, Kennedy Uzoka
said, “The Late Nnamdi Azikiwe is someone to whom I accord great
respect; he is an iconic African statesman (Zik of Africa as he is
fondly called). I am proud to be receiving an award that was first
conferred on the late premier 25 years ago. I dedicate this award to the
staff of the UBA Group in all our 23 countries of operations. They really
are the best.”
Kennedy Uzoka received the award after a thorough,
careful and rigorous selection process. His name was announced by Members
of the Advisory Board, PPRAC, Professor Pat Utomi, and Executive secretary,
Emeka Obasi, who stated that Uzoka was selected as a result of
his outstanding contributions to the development and growth of the Banking and
Financial Services Industry and also for an unblemished record of
service as a banker of international repute.
Apart from Uzoka and Danbatta, other winners in various categories
of public service, good governance, business, and professional leadership
include Senate President Ahmed Lawan; Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara
Zulum; Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa; Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde;
SGF, Boss Mustapha; Dr. Stella Okoli amongst others.
As it celebrates the silver jubilee anniversary of the Zik
prize in leadership awards, the PPRAC, organisers of the
award, reminisced that in the last 25 years, some other notable
leaders have been recipients of the prize including: The former President
of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings; former President of Tanzania, Nwalimu Julius
Nyerere; former President of Kenya; Dr. Salim Ahmed
Salim; former President of Namibia, Sam Nujoma; former President of
South Africa, Dr. Nelson Mandela; Former President John Agyekum Kufuor of
Ghana, and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.
Other past winners include the former Senate President David
Mark; former Defence Minister, Alhaji Yayale
Ahmed; founder, First City Merchant Bank, Otunba Subomi
Balogun; former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; former
Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Ahmed Joda and the Nigerian Central Bank
Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele.
The Zik Leadership awards is organised by the Public Policy
Research and Analysis Centre (PPRAC) and was instituted 25 years ago, in 1995,
in honour of the first President of Nigeria, Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, primarily
to encourage and nurture leadership on the African Continent and in the
Diaspora.
United Bank for Africa Plc is a leading Pan-African financial
institution, offering banking services to more than twenty-one million
customers, across 1,000 business offices and customer touch points, in 20
African countries. Operating in the USA, the UK and with presence in
France, UBA is connecting people and businesses across Africa through
retail, commercial and corporate banking, innovative cross-border payments and
remittances, trade finance and ancillary banking services
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