Expert predicts growth in banking sector

GROUP Head, Retail Banking Division ( South East), Access Bank Plc, Charles Oguibe, has predicted brighter days and enhanced investments in the banking sector.

Oguibe, who disclosed this at the weekend, in Owerri, Imo State capital, after receiving an excellence award at the Dinner and Awards night, organised by the state branch of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria ( CIBN), maintained that no matter the economic challenges, investors, depositors and other stakeholders should place implicit confidence, and work with guidance of rules for a better economy.

The theme of the event was: ‘ Building Resilience for Economic Growth in a Challenged Economy: The Agricultural Option.’

The occasion, which witnessed the conferment of awards on nine persons, attended by the state Commissioner for Finance and Coordinator of the state economy, Dr. Doris UzokaAnite; the state Accountant General, Linus Okafor; the Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Dr. Michael Arimawa, among other banking officials, Oguibe, who, has spent about 25 years in the banking industry promised to continue discharging his duties creditably to enhance growth of the CIBN and banking sector in general.