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In a bid to reinforce its commitment to first-rate experience, the lender introduced Leo, the Chat Banker, in 2018 and did not rest on its oars as it innovated with more firsts launching on Facebook in 2019 and on WhatsApp, following which it created Leo Apple Business Chat for IoS, on iPhone and iPad, a feat its peers are yet to replicate, even though some banks like Diamond Bank, now merged with Access Bank, tried with Ada and StanbicIBTC Bank’ Sami. First Bank and GT Bank also launched on WhatsApp. They were all unable to replicate the success story of UBA’s Leo.

A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Muhammad Lawal Garba, on Friday, in a unanimous decision, dismissed the appeal filed by the EFCC against the judgment of the Court of Appeal which had set aside an earlier ruling by the Federal High Court delivered on February 16, 2007 for the final forfeiture of the sum of N9,080,000,000.00 (Nine Billion and Eighty Million Naira) to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

With the aim of increasing its engagement and reaching a wider audience, an online repository for its FirstGem product was created and designed to provide a virtual online community where like-minded women, irrespective of where they are in Nigeria and abroad, gather to connect, grow and share knowledge on everything about lifestyle, parenting, career development, entrepreneurship, health, work and family.