
Phillips Oduoza, MD/CEO Designate, United Bank for Africa (UBA)
Phillips Oduoza has over 22 years experience in Banking and Financial Services spanning Banking Operations, Relationship Management, Credit/Marketing, Technology Implementation, Risk Management, Lean Banking Methods, and Brand Management.
Prior to this appointment, Phillips Oduoza was the Bank’s Deputy Managing Director overseeing its operations in the South, which is the UBA Group’s largest strategic business group.
He will commence as the Group Chief Executive of the Bank on August 1, 2010. In the interim, Mr Oduoza will work in tandem with Mr. Tony Elumelu, current Group Chief Executive of UBA to ensure that the transition is seamless. Read the rest of this entry »

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), the pan African banking group, has announced the opening of its Zambian operations – the first Southern African business unit for the group. The establishment of a full banking presence in Zambia further emphasizes the group’s vision of bringing world class banking services to all regions of sub-Saharan Africa and follows its successful openings in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Globacom announced last weekend that its long-delayed Glo-1 cable has landed in Lagos, Nigeria. Globacom’s Group Executive Director, Paddy Adenuga, said in a statement to mark the landing of the cable that Glo-1 “will stimulate a new era of prosperity in the continent by offering cheap, fast, and reliable international calls, unprecedented fast access to the internet and revolutionary data transfer”.
Botswana led a record year for African reformers making it easier to do business, with 28 countries completing 58 improvements