{"id":77090,"date":"2025-10-22T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77090"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:12:11","slug":"uba-graduates-700-youths-reaffirms-commitment-to-african-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/22\/uba-graduates-700-youths-reaffirms-commitment-to-african-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"UBA Graduates 700 Youths, Reaffirms Commitment to African Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United Bank for Africa (UBA), has graduated 700 young professionals from its Graduate Management Accelerated Programme (GMAP), reaffirming its commitment to youth empowerment and leadership development across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The graduation ceremony, held at the Landmark Events Centre in Lagos, drew participants from Nigeria and other African countries where UBA operates.<\/p>\n<p>UBA Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu, described the graduates as \u201clions and lionesses,\u201d noting that the initiative equips Africa\u2019s next generation of leaders with technical, managerial, and leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its third year, the GMAP has produced over 4,000 graduates through mentorship, training, and practical experience.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the Group Managing Director, Oliver Alawuba, Deputy GMD Chukwuma Nweke praised the graduates\u2019 perseverance, urging them to drive innovation and excellence within the bank\u2019s 25,000-strong workforce.<\/p>\n<p>UBA serves over 45 million customers across 20 African countries, as well as in the UK, US, France, and the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; The United Bank for Africa (UBA), has graduated 700 young professionals from its Graduate Management Accelerated Programme (GMAP), reaffirming its commitment to youth empowerment and leadership development across Africa. The graduation ceremony, held at the Landmark Events Centre in Lagos, drew participants from Nigeria and other African countries where UBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1718,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77092,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77090\/revisions\/77092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}