63 Years of Empowering {Golfing} Excellence: FirstBank Presents the Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship

Lagos, Nigeria – October 12, 2024 – FirstBank, Nigeria’s premier monetary establishment and main supplier of economic inclusion companies, is proud to announce the 63rd version of the FirstBank Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship. This prestigious worldwide golf match, held below the First@Sports activities initiative, reinforces FirstBank’s unwavering dedication to sports activities improvement and nation-building.

A Legacy of Sporting Excellence

For over six many years, FirstBank has been a driving drive in selling sports activities in Nigeria, with a concentrate on golf, polo, and tennis. The FirstBank Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship stands tall as Nigeria’s most esteemed worldwide golf match, attracting prime beginner golfers from across the globe.

Unveiling Expertise and Fostering Success

This revered competitors has turn out to be a springboard for fulfillment, propelling aspiring professionals to greatness. Many previous winners have ascended to the elite skilled class, whereas others have found their potential throughout the match’s nurturing surroundings. The championship supplies a worldwide stage for beginner golfers to showcase their expertise, earn useful World Beginner Golf Rating (WAGR) factors, and propel their careers.

This 12 months’s Version

The 63rd FirstBank Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship will happen on the golf membership of Ikoyi Membership 1938 from November 18-24, 2024. This version introduces two thrilling parts:

1. “Seek for 4 Stars” – empowering 150 younger aspiring male & feminine golfers aged 18-30, at the moment working as caddies at Ikoyi Membership.
2. “Championship Kitty” – permitting golfers with a handicap of 10 and above to take part, selling inclusivity and variety.

The Company Golf Problem for Charity continues, with web proceeds from staff entry charges donated to charities/NGOs below the FirstBank SPARK initiative.

Partnerships and Collaborations

FirstBank has solid strategic partnerships with like-minded organizations to amplify the influence of this yr’s championship. These collaborations align with the Financial institution’s aims, leveraging collective experience to create a world-class expertise for members and spectators.

Quotes

Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head, Advertising and Company Communications, FirstBank:

“We’re delighted to announce this yr’s version of the Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship. As we have fun 63 years of sponsoring the Championship, we reaffirm our dedication to empowering Nigerian youth and selling nationwide improvement. Golf has the ability to unite, encourage, and remodel lives. By this match, we’ve witnessed exceptional success tales, from beginner golfers turning professional to group improvement initiatives driving optimistic change. FirstBank stays dedicated to supporting sports activities and improvement initiatives that form Nigeria’s future and cement its place as a pacesetter in Africa.”

Tade Adekunle, Golf Captain, Ikoyi Membership 1938

On behalf of Ikoyi Membership 1938 Golf Membership, we’re proud and excited to host the FirstBank Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship as soon as once more. This exceptional 62-year partnership has persistently impressed beginner golfers to push their limits and has paved the best way for these aspiring to turn out to be skilled gamers.

We’re assured that the 63rd version will proceed to uphold the excellence of earlier tournaments. We warmly welcome FirstBank, the valued Strategic Companions, and all collaborating golfers and company to Ikoyi Membership 1938 Golf Membership.

Kayode Oguntayo, Concierge Sports activities:

Concierge Sports activities is honoured to function the Marketing consultant and Occasion Supervisor for the celebrated FirstBank Lagos Beginner Open Golf Championship. As we have fun the 63rd version of this iconic occasion, we’re significantly excited concerning the introduction of recent sub-events that improve empowerment and inclusivity throughout the Championship.

We lengthen our gratitude to our long-standing Strategic Companions for his or her continued help and warmly welcome our newly onboarded companions. Their collaboration is integral to the success of this famend match.

From 18th to twenty fourth November, we’ll witness an exhilarating week of golf, and we eagerly anticipate crowning the subsequent Beginner Champion of the yr.

About FirstBank

First Bank of Nigeria Restricted “FirstBank”, established in 1894, is the premier financial institution in West Africa, a number one monetary inclusion companies supplier in Africa, and a digital banking big.

FirstBank’s worldwide footprints minimize throughout three continents ─ Africa, Europe and Asia, with FirstBank UK Restricted in London and Paris; FirstBank in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone; FBNBank in Senegal; and a FirstBank Consultant Workplace in Beijing, China. All of the subsidiary banks are totally registered by their respective Central Banks to supply full banking companies.

In addition to offering home banking companies, the subsidiaries additionally have interaction in worldwide cross-border transactions with FirstBank’s non-Nigerian subsidiaries, and the consultant workplaces in Paris and China facilitate commerce flows from Asia and Europe into Nigeria and different African nations.

For over 130 years, FirstBank has constructed an impressive fame for stable relationships, good company governance, and a robust liquidity place, and has been on the forefront of selling digital cost within the nation with over 13 million playing cards issued to prospects (the primary financial institution to attain such a milestone in Nigeria). FirstBank has continued to make important investments in expertise, innovation and transformation, and its cashless transaction drive has been steadily accentuated with nearly 23 million energetic FirstBank prospects signed up on digital channels together with the USSD Fast Banking service by the nationally famend *894# Banking code.

With over 42 million buyer accounts (together with digital wallets) unfold throughout Nigeria, UK and sub-Saharan Africa, the Financial institution supplies a complete vary of retail and wholesale monetary companies by greater than 820 enterprise workplaces and over 243,400 agent places unfold throughout 772 out of the 774 Native Authorities Areas in Nigeria.

Along with banking options and companies, FirstBank supplies pension fund custody companies in Nigeria by First Pension Custodian Nigeria Restricted and nominee and related companies by First Nominees Nigeria Restricted.

FirstBank’s dedication to Range is proven in its insurance policies, partnerships and initiatives reminiscent of its staff’ ratio of feminine to male (about 39%:61%; and 32% ladies in administration) in addition to the FirstBank Girls Community, an initiative that seeks to handle the gender hole and enhance the participation of girls in any respect ranges throughout the organisation.  As well as, the Financial institution’s membership of the UN Girls is an affirmation of a deliberate coverage that’s per UN Girls’s Girls Empowerment’s Rules (WEPs) ─ Equal Alternative, Inclusion, and Non-discrimination.

For six consecutive years (2011 – 2016), FirstBank was named “Most Worthwhile Financial institution Model in Nigeria” by the globally famend The Banker Journal of the Monetary Occasions Group and “Greatest Retail Financial institution in Nigeria” eight occasions in a row, 2011 – 2018, by the Asian Banker Worldwide Excellence in Retail Monetary Providers Awards.

In 2023, FirstBank obtained notable awards together with “Greatest Personal Financial institution for Sustainable Investing in Africa 2023” by International Finance Awards; “Greatest Sustainable Financial institution in Nigeria 2023” by Worldwide Traders Awards; “Greatest Bespoke Banking Providers in Nigeria 2023” by Worldwide Traders Awards; “Greatest Monetary Inclusion Service Supplier in Nigeria 2023” by Digital Banker Africa; and “African Financial institution of the 12 months” by African Management Journal; ’’Greatest Company Financial institution in Nigeria 2023’’ by Euromoney Awards and ‘’Most Revolutionary Banking Model – Nigeria 2023’’ by International Manufacturers Award.

Considerably, FirstBank’s International Credit score Ranking was A+ with a optimistic outlook whereas scores by Fitch and Normal & Poor’s have been A (nga) and ngBBB+ respectively each with Steady outlooks as at September 2023. FirstBank maintained the identical stage of worldwide credit score scores because the sovereign; a milestone that was achieved in 2022 for the primary time since 2015.

FirstBank continued to achieve vast acclaim on the worldwide stage with a number of worldwide awards and recognitions obtained to date in 2024. A few of these embrace Nigeria’s Greatest Financial institution for ESG 2024 and Nigeria’s Greatest Financial institution for Corporates 2024 each awarded by Euromoney Awards for Excellence; Greatest SME Financial institution in Africa and in Nigeria by The Asian Banker International Awards; Greatest Personal Financial institution in Nigeria and Greatest Personal Financial institution for Sustainable Investing in Africa by International Finance Awards; Greatest Company Financial institution in Nigeria 2024, Greatest CSR Financial institution in Nigeria 2024, Greatest Retail Financial institution in Nigeria 2024, Greatest SME Financial institution in Nigeria 2024 and Greatest Personal Financial institution in Nigeria 2024 all awarded by the International Banking and Finance Awards.

Our imaginative and prescient is “To be Africa’s Financial institution of first alternative” and our mission is “To stay true to our title by offering the very best monetary companies potential”. This dedication is anchored on our core values of EPIC – Entrepreneurship, Professionalism, Innovation and Buyer-Centricity. Our strategic ambition is “To ship accelerated progress in profitability by customer-led innovation and disciplined execution” and our model promise is all the time to ship the last word “gold normal” of worth and excellence to place You First in each respect.

Folake Ani-Mumuney

Group Head, Advertising & Company Communications

First Bank of Nigeria Restricted