Lagos First Girl hails Wema Bank for empowering ladies

The First Girl of Lagos State, Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has hailed Wema Bank for its sustained dedication to ladies’s empowerment and inclusive financial progress in Nigeria.

She gave the commendation whereas talking on the financial institution’s 2026 Worldwide Ladies’s Day celebration in Lagos.

The occasion, considered one of many largest Worldwide Ladies’s Day gatherings within the banking sector, introduced collectively dignitaries, public figures, and girls leaders from varied sectors to debate points surrounding ladies’s empowerment and financial inclusion.

Talking on the occasion, Mrs Sanwo-Olu counseled the management of Wema Bank for constantly initiating programmes that assist ladies and promote inclusive progress. She additionally conveyed goodwill from the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

She stated, “I’m happy to be related to right now’s gathering, an initiative of Wema Bank to commemorate this 12 months’s Worldwide Ladies’s Day and have a good time ladies.

“The management of Wema Bank has constantly championed initiatives that empower ladies and promote inclusive progress in our society.”

The First Girl emphasised that monetary inclusion stays a vital software for advancing ladies’s financial empowerment, noting that entry to credit score, financial savings, investments, and digital banking options allows ladies to increase their companies, assist their households, and contribute to nationwide growth. She counseled the financial institution for designing merchandise and platforms that particularly tackle the monetary wants of ladies, thereby serving to them construct financial confidence.

She famous, “As a state, each initiative now we have curated to assist ladies stems from the realisation that our ladies deserve one of the best.

“When a girl is empowered or given alternatives, the advantages prolong far past her instant sphere of affect.”

Mrs Sanwo-Olu additionally harassed that ladies’s empowerment requires steady dedication from authorities, monetary establishments, company organisations, civil society teams, and households.

She expressed optimism that the gathering would encourage deeper collaboration and progressive concepts aimed toward constructing a society the place ladies are given equal alternatives to thrive.

“Empowerment will not be a one-day dialog. It requires sustained dedication. I hope this gathering will spark deeper collaboration, bolder concepts, and renewed dedication to construct a society the place no girl is left behind,” she added.

The occasion featured a various lineup of notable personalities, together with the UN Ladies Resident Consultant to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms Beatrice Eyong; filmmaker Funke Akindele; tv host Morayo Afolabi-Brown; singer Waje; dancer and inventive entrepreneur Kaffy; vocalist Yinka Davies; drummer Ara; tv anchor Olive Emodi; and actor Daniel Etim Effiong.

Individuals on the occasion explored this 12 months’s theme, ‘Give To Acquire’, alongside the financial institution’s dialogue subject, ‘When Ladies Acquire, We Develop’, highlighting the broader social and financial affect of empowering ladies.