{"id":618390,"date":"2019-05-13T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/05\/New-Director.jpg\" alt=\"Abdoul Aziz Dia joins Board of Direc"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:42:36","slug":"abdoul-aziz-dia-joins-board-of-directors-of-uba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/13\/abdoul-aziz-dia-joins-board-of-directors-of-uba\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdoul Aziz Dia joins Board of Directors of UBA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/New-Director.jpg\" alt=\"Abdoul Aziz Dia joins Board of Directors of UBA\u00a0\"\/><span class=\"featured-image-caption\"><br \/>\nGroup Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu(CON) and the new Non-Executive Director, UBA Plc Mr Abdoul-Aziz Dia <\/span><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has announced that Mr Abdoul-Aziz Dia is to join the bank\u2019s Board of Directors subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dia, a Senegalese citizen, has over 25 years of banking experience garnered from several countries across the globe, including the United Kingdom, France, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Kenya and Cote D\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>He has worked in senior management positions at international financial institutions such as the African Development Bank, Citigroup, Standard Chartered, Ecobank and UBA.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dia has served in the capacity of Executive Director in various companies across Africa and in Europe and now joins the UBA Group as a non-Executive Director. He holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Statistics and Financial Mathematics from ENSAE in Paris, France. He is fluent in 6 languages (French, English, Romanian, German, Wolof and Fulani).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Abdoul-Aziz Dia is a seasoned banker with a wealth of experience. He joins the UBA Board with a global outlook and I am confident that he has a vital role to play in the future of UBA and will add enormous value to the Group\u2019s growth strategy\u2019 said the UBA Group Chairman, Mr Tony Elumelu.<\/p>\n<p>Dia joins the Board almost a year after UBA appointed four new members to strengthen and further diversify its Group Board including two female board members, Erelu Angela Adebayo and Angela Aneke. The other two Directors are Kayode Fasola and AbdulKadir J. Bello.<\/p>\n<p>The United Bank for Africa, Africa\u2019s global bank, was founded 70 years ago in Nigeria and today, operates in 20 African countries and in the United Kingdom, the USA and with presence in France.<\/p>\n<p>UBA serves over 17 million customers across the globe with more than 1000 branches and touch points. In 2018, the bank received the award of Africa\u2019s Best Digital Bank by the Banker\u2019s magazine.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu(CON) and the new Non-Executive Director, UBA Plc Mr Abdoul-Aziz Dia The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has announced that Mr Abdoul-Aziz Dia is to join the bank\u2019s Board of Directors subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Mr Dia, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abdoul Aziz Dia joins Board of Directors of UBA\u00a0 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/13\/abdoul-aziz-dia-joins-board-of-directors-of-uba\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Abdoul Aziz Dia joins Board of Directors of UBA\u00a0 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Group Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony O. 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