The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, First City Monument Bank Limited, Mr. Ladi Balogun, says the lender has partnered the Pan –Atlantic University to boost educational development in the country.
This, he said, led to the bank’s decision to donate a multi-purpose Students’ Centre to the educational institution, adding that the move was part of its strategies to invest in the future.
Balogun added that the gesture was also in line with the commitment of the lender to effectively support initiatives aimed at enhancing the standard of education in the country.
According to a statement, the FCMB Students’ Centre, located within the main campus of the PAU at Ibeju-Lekki, along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos, is a facility devoted to students’ recreation and socialisation.
Balogun said, “We felt the need to provide the students with a conducive environment that would facilitate learning, while at the same time serve as an avenue to socialise near their hostels through basic facilities for relaxation, shopping, retail and banking services.
“Lagos Business School (which is part of the PAU) is the highest-ranked business school in Nigeria and we believe that in a few years from now, thousands of students would be in this institution.”
The Vice-Chancellor, PAU, Prof. Juan Elegido, was quoted to have said that the building represented one of the milestones of the university in its quest to build competent and committed professionals for the country.
He added, “This building is very important to the university as it gives the students the opportunity to interact properly, since the students learn as much from one another as well as their teachers. We commend the FCMB for providing the university with a befitting Students Centre and identifying with our vision.”
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