Osibogun Urges Employees To Acquire The Needed Skills That Would Made Them Stand Out In The Industry

The induction, an annual ceremony of the Institute is the forum where student members who have completed their examinations and fulfilled all other conditions set by the Governing Council, are formally admitted into full professional membership of the Institute.
Debola Osibogun, President/Chairman of Council, CIBN, called on the stakeholders and general public to all banks, financial institutions and qualified employees in the banking industry to have desirous of career advancement to take advantage of various qualifying examinations routes of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) to acquire the needed skills that would stand them out in the industry both locally and internationally.
Osibogun made the call at the weekend during the 2015 CIBN Graduates Induction and Prize Awards Day held in Lagos.
“A total of 1,003 members were admitted into various categories of membership – 276 student members into Associateship category (ACIB), 20 graduates of the Chartered Banker/MBA Programme into the Associateship of the Institute, 679 student members who have passed the Microfinance Certification Programme and fulfilled all the necessary conditions for admission as Microfinance Certified Bankers (MCIB) and 28 members who completed the Certificate in Banking (CIB).”
President/chairman of the council said “I want to heartily congratulate all our inductees today. Your hard work and resilience have yielded very good result and no doubt, it will be a catalyst to greater heights for you in your chosen careers.”
At the event, certificates of appreciation were presented to financial institutions that have made giant strides at encouraging their employees to sit for the various qualifying examinations of the Institute, as part of their corporate strategy to enhance competency and human capacity development in the banking industry.
These Institutions have produced not less than five inductees each at this ceremony. They are; First Bank Limited, Fidelity Bank Plc, Skye Bank Plc, Union Bank Plc, Zenith Bank Plc, United Bank for Africa Plc, Microcred MicroFinance Bank, NPF MicroFinance Bank, and Peace MicroFinance Bank.
Osibogun was pleased that that Nigeria produced the highest number of graduates worldwide at the 2014/2015 Chartered Banker/MBA programme graduation ceremony in July in Bangor, United Kingdom. The Institute was pronounced as the most valuable partner of the programme. The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and Heritage Banking Company Limited produced the highest number of graduates.
“This is a demonstration of their commitment to improve professionalism in the banking industry and the implementation of Competency Framework”, she said.