UBA’s Leo launched on WhatsApp

Pan-African Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) has announced the commencement of its chat bank ‘Leo’ on the WhatsApp platform.

With Leo on WhatsApp, customers who are users and lovers of the app can now can perform basic banking services including checking their balances on the go, transferring funds, paying bills, among other services.

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, UBA, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, who expressed excitement about the development remarked that the bank is continuously working in line with customers’ demand to ensure that banking services are made convenient and without stress.

He said, “This only goes to show that our resolve in continuing to deploy innovative solutions that place customers first, using cutting edge technology for their collective satisfaction and excellent banking experience is important to us. This recognition will further spur us to do more in meeting the needs of our customers with unrivalled services.”

“Our recent launch of Leo in 13 other African countries is evidence that UBA has on its agenda, the objective of digital creativity especially in service for our trusted customer base across the African continent.”

Also speaking on the new service, the Group Head of UBA’s Online Banking, Mr Austine Abolusoro, stated “United Bank for Africa is a technology-driven institution with vast knowledge in the business that we do and Leo, being a tested dependable and intelligent personality, will replicate on WhatsApp, the success it has experienced on the Facebook Messenger platform.  It is a solution that is from the customer’s standpoint, easy to use by anyone regardless of your demography.” “Leo is ready and waiting to help with any form of banking services,” continued Abolusoro.

WhatsApp has been in existence for over 9 years, reaching more than 1.5 billion people in over 180 countries. The premium private chat platform has assured that there will be no spam messages as the development is to enable businesses serve their customers with useful and helpful information.

LEO is already present in over 14 African subsidiaries, including Nigeria, available in  three languages, and has now been rolled out to customers on WhatsApp. To use this service on WhatsApp, customers must add the LEO Whatsapp number: +234 903 000 2455 to their phone contacts, then search for UBA ChatBanking on WhatsApp to start enjoying the added convenience and ease of transacting with Leo on WhatsApp.

UBA is one of Africa’s leading banks with operations in 20 African countries and in London and New York, with  presence in Paris. Adjudged to be at the forefront of innovation and convenient banking, UBA is one of the first financial services institutions on the continent to deploy Finacle 10x, a new information technology platform that boosts its services and electronic banking channels. Today, UBA provides banking services to more than 15 million customers globally, through thousands of touch points and diverse channels.

NIGERIA'S FOREMOST BEAUTY ARTIST OF THE DECADE LOOKS SUPER STUNNING AT 40!!!

It's like Banke Meshida-Lawal has been with us for so so long. Far longer than she really has been. Her name is synonymous with the growth of Make Up artistry in Nigeria and in fact Africa as a whole. She can be tagged very well without any controversies whatsoever as one of the grand icons of the trade, who totally elevated it to a stratospheric level. So she deserves our kudos!

Her growing clientele list reads the who-is-who of the society and beyond, many of whom would not accept that another would touch them up. Names like Hajia Bola Shagaya, Mo Abudu and the likes are on that awesome list. To many, she's like the Michaelangelo, Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Rembrandt of Make up/beauty artistry and truth be told, she has earned her stripes, and gallantly too at that. If she were into shoe making she would be ranked side by side one of the greats like Christian Louboutin or Charlotte Olympia, if she were a fashion designer, she would run shoulders with icons the likes of Giorgio Armani or Karl Lagerfeld. That just tells you just how good, how magical she is with her brush, in fact some feel she is a magician of great skills. At a point she was even the official make up artist to a sitting 1st lady of Nigeria, in the person of Madam Dr. Patience Jonathan.

The "incredible celebrity make-up artist and make up brand owner" & a budding photographer (men she takes some mean pictures!) to add to the boot, clocked the good 40 yesterday, August 21, 2018 making her a purring, very feline LEO!! ! As is widely known and acknowledged, Leos are born leaders by nature and so by natural inclination are always at the forefront, leading the pack while strutting majestically about, so now people can just naturally understand why it's so easy and effortless for Banke to lead the pack!

And just because she is a jolly good feline in whom many are pleased, one who has touched a lot of people's lives via what she does best, which is helping to expose the best parts of them, while totally downplaying their less beautiful spots/parts,..... fans, friends, family members, colleagues etc rolled out the drums and blew the trumpets in celebration as she clocked the age of maturity! Life just simply just started for her henceforth.

So we also here at Maestro's Media joins in the celebration of a wonderful icon of her forte and world, the incredible artist known to world as Banke Meshida-Lawal, we say to you queen feline, Long may your reign be, Happy birthday and keep purring! 

UBA’s Leo launched on WhatsApp

Pan-African Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) who recently clinched the Euromoney awards as the Best Digital Bank in Africa, is once again asserting itself as a pace setter, moving in leaps and bounds in unchartered territory. UBA’s chat banker, Leo has launched in pilot mode on WhatsApp and will be fully available to customers by September 1st, 2018

With Leo now on WhatsApp, customers who are lovers of the app will be able to open new accounts, check their balances on the go and carry out basic banking services.

Speaking about the launch of Leo on WhatsApp, Kennedy Uzoka, Group Managing Director, said: “Our customers are at the heart of our business and we as a bank, are never relenting in matching our words with equal action.  In today’s fast paced world with demands for quick responses, our aim is to make banking seamless and effortless for our millions of existing and potential customers.”

Also speaking on the launch of Leo on WhatsApp, Group Head of UBA’s Online Banking, Mr Austine Abolusoro, stated ‘United Bank for Africa is a technology-driven institution with vast knowledge in the business that we do and Leo, being a tested dependable and intelligent personality, will replicate on WhatsApp, the success it has experienced on the Facebook Messenger platform.  It is a solution that is from the customer’s standpoint, easy to use by anyone regardless of your demography.’ ‘Leo is ready and waiting to help with any form of banking services’ continued Abolusoro.

“WhatsApp has been in existence for over 9 years, reaching more than 1.5 billion people in over 180 countries. The premium private chat platform has assured that there will be no spam messages as the development is to enable businesses serve their customers with useful and helpful information.

Leo who is already present in over 12 African subsidiaries, including Nigeria, and available in  three languages, will be fully rolled out to customers on WhatsApp in September 2018 with all its regular features and extended attributes for WhatsApp.

UBA is one of Africa’s leading banks with operations in 20 African countries and in London and New York, with   presence in Paris.

Adjudged to be at the forefront of innovation and convenient banking, UBA is one of the first financial services institutions on the continent to deploy Finacle 10x, a new information technology platform that boosts its services and electronic banking channels.

Today, UBA provides banking services to more than 15 million customers globally, through over a thousand touch points and other diverse channels.

33 AND STILL RELENTLESS. CELEBRATING TOP NIGERIAN MODEL TARMAR AWOBOTU

Tarmar Awobotu is probably Nigeria's oldest international model, who is still strutting her stuff magnificently on the world stage giving those much younger than she is a run for their money!

Truth even being told, there are not many of the younger models right now even at their top height or at the top of their game, that can stand next to or shoulder to shoulder with this fierce and uncompromising lioness (amazon) of the catwalk.

Since she came into our consciousness and on the scene more than a decade ago in fact close to 17 years ago, the now 33 years old has been relentless and instead of her to be showing the signs of waning after all this years, she instead has been reinventing herself looking better and better as the years goes by, even ageless if we can use that expression. The beauty of it all is that all of those her contemporaries and colleagues that reigned then, are nowhere to be found now, but like a constant star she has been and still is in our face and strutting her stuff majestically at that.

Signed to Ice Model SA, where she has been living for more than a decade now. She won Miss Tourism Ogun in 2004, that's 14 years ago and in 2012, March 17, 2012 to be more precise she emerged from amongst 45 shortlisted contestants from around the world that participated, to win Top Model of the World competition, which held in the UK.

Already preparing long ahead for when she would some day retire from the catwalk fully, she owns her own Event management brand.

At just 33 and still single, she's still just about to start life.

Happy birthday T!!! 

OUR DAY CANDY- YVONNE "VONNE" NWOSU

Her royal lioness/gorgeousness Yvonne Nwosu aka VONNE of VONNE Couture is our delightsome eye candy today.

The unrelenting fashionista, designer and socialite, always knows how to get the right attention. Her style 98% of the time always leaves us googled eyed.  She loves to take pictures and loves the attention she gets from it. Not too many are photogenic, but Yvonne seem to have an understanding of light and the side that soothes her best.

Tall, elegant and light and absolutely full of energy, she is a true Leo lioness, who exudes much intoxicating sex appeal, you either love her or loathe her, but you cannot just ignore her.

Our day candy........