As part of measures to empower women financially, FirstBank in collaboration with the Oyo State Ministry of Women Affairs recently held Oyo State Summit on Women Empowerment.
According to First Bank, the event was hosted by the Wife of the Oyo State Governor, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi with Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, the Chairman, Board of Directors, First Bank of Nigeria Limited as the keynote speaker.
At the event, Mrs. Awosika asserted that the FirstGem offering is targeted towards purposeful wealth creation and it is designed toprovide enabling opportunities for women to achieve their financial goals and aspirations. She encouraged the women to leverage the FirstGem offering to build investments for themselves. “You do not build wealth by thinking about it, you build wealth by taking a deliberate action” she further espoused. Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, the Wife of the Oyo State Governor and the host of the summit advised the participants to take advantage of the FirstGem Savings plan to create wealth for the future.
The FirstBank FirstGem lifestyle offering for women provides female customers with access to support funds for their total financial empowerment, free business advisory, specialized trainings on business development initiatives, regular information and insight on business opportunities in various sectors and industries as well as tremendous discounts at merchant outlets that offer lifestyle products and services amongst other benefits. FirstGem comes in variants of Savings and Current accounts and it is designed to benefit women professionals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, women in paid employment as well as low income earners, traders and artisans. With FirstGem, there is something for every woman.
