Today, 25 March 2020, Ecobank Nigeria launched a ‘StaySafeNigeria’ media campaign as part of its corporate actions to support measures to check the rising spread of coronavirus in Nigeria.

The integrated electronic and digital media campaign is a call to action, to create awareness and educate the populace on safety measures to adopt against the dreaded coronavirus (COVID -19).
 
The “StaySafeNigeria” campaign invites and mobilises every Nigerian to adopt safe practices and healthy hygiene habits to help contain the spread of the virus in Nigeria.

With a population of about 200 million, we believe prevention of COVID19 is much better than cure.

We must therefore place top priority on getting everyone to curb the spread or at least minimise the spread of the virus now. We cannot risk a full pandemic in Nigeria as our health infrastructure and personnel could be thoroughly overwhelmed in an unimaginable manner.

The campaign focuses on simple tips to stay safe. This includes - washing hands thoroughly and regularly with soap and clean water, maintaining social distance, properly covering your nose when sneezing, refraining from touching your face, mouth and nose.

The "StaySafeNigeria" messages will be in Pidgin, Ibo, Hausa, Yoruba and English on radio, electronic and social media taking the message easily to the grassroots.

This campaign is in addition to the measures we have put in place to protect our staff, customers and other stakeholders since the outbreak of the disease.
 
We encourage all our customers to avoid non-essential contacts in achieving their banking needs by utilizing our digital solutions to easily access their bank accounts, make contactless payments, transfer funds and carry out other ancillary banking transactions from the comfort of their homes and offices without visiting our branches.

We believe that the benefits of this campaign will endure as it will entrench good hygiene conduct in Nigeria even after we overcome coronavirus.

We therefore invite you to join us in this campaign to save lives. Act Now!
 
#StaySafeNigeria
#StaySafeNaija
#Staysafe
 
Na Ecobank say make una StaySafe o.

32 Graduates are currently undergoing intensive Training at Ecobank Academy in preparation for full employment into Ecobank Nigeria. The programme combines the three categories of Entry Level, Graduate and Management Trainees with a program duration of 2months, 12months and 21months respectively. Ecobank’s Development Programmes are part of the Bank’s talent development strategy to continue to churn out excellently trained banking professionals at various levels of the industry to feed into her talent pipeline and the banking industry. They are founded on global best practice that prepare the candidates for banking careers in positions aligned with their potential, competencies and experience at the entry point of functional pre-managerial roles.

As part of this plan, 100 fresh graduates recently joined the Entry Level programme – a 2month training ground for fresh graduates to prepare them to join the Bank’s workforce at the entry point and rapidly gain experience to rise through the ranks. These graduates will be exposed to classroom training, action learning as well as valuable mentorship to quickly prepare them for full employment in the Bank.



In keeping with its talent development strategy, the first batch of 25 Graduate Trainees who recently passed out after 12 months of intensive capacity enhancement training have since been offered full employment with Ecobank Nigeria. Their training combines classroom, on–the-job, book reading and action learning models which provides the candidates with global exposure and ability to compete internationally.

In his comment during the graduation ceremony, the Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan congratulated the graduands and encouraged them to keep their vision of getting to the top of their career. According to Mr Akinwuntan, the Trainee programme initiative is part of Ecobank’s transformation agenda to make the bank a most preferred financial institution in the country.

“This programme is our own way as a bank to invest in creating future leaders for the Nigerian banking industry. We are investing in the people to accomplish our vision both as a bank and a country. A key success factor of any bank is capital; and we must therefore train those who will be empowered to oversee this capital and put it to good use in the interest of depositors and investors. Staff of banks must be well trained and knowledgeable so that they can ensure that funds in the banks are effectively deployed. For us at Ecobank, we must also ensure that we deliver on our promise as a financial institution of choice not only in Nigeria, but the whole of Africa. We therefore take the development of adequately trained manpower as a “must do” in striving to achieve our goals”.

Mr Akinwuntan also stated that Ecobank deploys top notch technology and innovation which are the platforms needed to drive its vision to be a leader in the provision of financial services across Africa. In his words, “we provide full service banking right from the wholesale business to the small, medium scale and to individuals. To do this, we’ve built technology services that enable us deliver our services in a convenient, accessible and reliable manner. This is affordable and sustainable to our customers, while also ensuring good returns to our shareholders”.

Ecobank Nigeria’s campaign to rid the environment of non-biodegradable materials is yielding results as Lagos residents have continued to go the Lagos sewage treatment plant at Amuwo Odofin to exchange used plastic bottles for cash.

In a statement the bank said that to mark its 2019 Sustainability Week, Ecobank Nigeria asked residents of Lagos State to submit used plastic materials like soft drink and water bottles to designated collection points to exchange them for cash.

The locations included Ecobank branches in Ikorodu, Ojuelegba, Ketu, Allen, Ahmadu Bello Way on Victoria Island and the Lagos sewage treatment plant in Amuwo Odofin .

The campaign started on Friday, May 17th 2019 and a total of 1.5 million plastic bottles have been collected.

Please what is your source..? The same Ecobank I read has hired over 250 graduate trainees and they are set to be absolved into the system.