WorldStage Newsonline– Wema Bank Plc, Nigeria’s oldest indigenous bank has announced the appointment of Mrs Ibiye Asime Ekong as an Independent Non Executive Director.
The bank in two notices at the Nigerian Stock Exchange signed by Johnson Lebile, Company Secretary/Legal Adviser also informed the Exchange and the investing public that a meeting of its Board of Directors has been scheduled for Thursday, 28th October 2020 at 12.00 pm at Lagos to consider and approve the Group’s Unaudited Financial Statements for the quarter ended 30th September 2020 along with other corporate actions.
The bank has also declared the Closed Period from 9th October 2020 to 24hours after the bank’s financials and other information have been made public in line with the Rulebook of The Exchange.
Accordingly, no director, employee, person discharging managerial responsibility and adviser of the Bank and their connected persons may directly or indirectly, deal in the shares of the Bank in any manner during the Closed Period.
The new independent Non Executive Director is a finance professional with over 28 years experience in Accounting and Banking and Finance.
She started her professional working career as Management Trainee and later Assistant Treasurer at John Holt Plc.
