CBN Pledges To Support Bankers Institute

The Lagos State Chapter of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) has been assured of support by the Central Bank of Nigeria 

Bariboloka Kayor, the CBN Lagos Branch Controller, said this in Lagos during the groundbreaking ceremony of the CIBN multi-level Lagos Bankers House.

He appreciated the branch for continuously supporting CBN, adding that the building, when completed, would be a place for knowledge transfer.

“Thank you for the good work you have been doing. At the CBN, we have the support of the branch and its activities and we will continue to do our best to make sure that the branch of the CIBN succeeds. I give you assurance of our support.”

Kayor noted that the regulator’s support was borne out of the fact that the building would become a place of knowledge transfer when completed.

“The Lagos State Branch has maintained a record, as far as I can recall, for being the best branch of CIBN, year in and year out.

"We will be coming for the commissioning of this edifice in no distant time. In the next 12 months, we want to see the completion of this building.

"On behalf of CIBN, I want to say we will be giving you full support, and we will continue to support this project in our own way as much as possible.

"We will be part of seeing to the completion of this project.”

Also commenting, Dr. Bayo Olugbemi, the immediate past President/Chairman of Council, CIBN, said history was being made by the inauguration of the Lagos Bankers House.

“It was something that was uppermost in my heart when I was the president. It was almost becoming impossible but there was a mandate that it must come to pass.

“We just came back from Port Harcourt and we are able to complete the legacy project at the Rivers State University in two months.

"They said there that it was a miracle, that it had never happened before because we gave ourselves a mandate and a target and we are able to accomplish that,” he said.