Nigeria’s Bank of Agriculture receives $1.2m from AfDB

The Managing Director, Bank of Agriculture( BOA) says the African Development Bank ( AfDB) has provided a $ 1.2million grant for the repositioning of the bank.shina3Danju told newsmen in Sokoto on Sunday, that the repositioning would enable the bank operate according to global standards.” Repositioning the bank established over 43 years ago requires a lot of resources.”In this direction, the grant will enable the bank to use international consultants to carry out best practices.”It also allows for skills audit in order to have adequate manpower and do more internal and external trainings.” This will also help us to improve the financials, governance, computerisation and risk management, among others.”The managing director also said that about N5 billion was required to computerise the bank’s 136 branches nationwide.” We need to deploy the latest technology in our branches, so that they can talk to themselves, real time.” More branches must be opened, while we are pondering on employing the model of agency banking, which is the vogue globally now.” We must also re-engineer the bank’s business models and specialists will be engaged to craft it to be in tune with what is available in Nigeria,” Danju added.Danju said that the repositioning when completed, would qualify the bank for a loan facility of between $200 million to $300million from the ADB.  

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