Father’s Day Celebration. How Banks Move To Make Families Stay Back In Homeland With Ease
The Oasis Reporters
June 19, 2023
While several messages with poetic flourish were being released to fathers in Nigeria to wish them Happy Father’s Day, testimonies were equally being shared in Churches about happy fathers who had finally secured the visa to take their families out of Nigeria.
Happy Father’s Day from all of us at Zenith Bank.#ZenithBank #FathersDay #June18 #Sunday #ZenithBankisBack #FathersDay2023 pic.twitter.com/ub2peKKJga
— Zenith Bank (@ZenithBank) June 18, 2023
Tell us in the comments. #ZenithBank #FathersDay #June18 #Sunday #ZenithBankisBack #FathersDay2023 #Dads #MyDad pic.twitter.com/6yHcJOO8Ib
— Zenith Bank (@ZenithBank) June 18, 2023
I believe I can fly !
Happy Father’s Day to all the Awesome Fathers out there! 🥳
— Fidelity Bank (@fidelitybankplc) June 18, 2023
Thank you for being such a pillar of support and strength, and for being our first super heroes.🦸🏿♂️
Father’s Day comes once in a year, so this is your cue to text or call your dad to tell him you love him! pic.twitter.com/bgzGHIYfig
Some for good !
So if all Nigerians leave the country, who then would stay in the motherland ?
Today, we celebrate our extraordinary fathers who inspire, support, and love unconditionally.
— Access Bank Plc (@myaccessbank) June 18, 2023
Thank you for being our everyday superheroes.
Happy Father's Day#AccessSuperDads#MoreThanBanking #FathersDay pic.twitter.com/nPnrGRhSNZ
Is your dad your favorite Superhero? Post a picture of him and tell us why he deserves to win our amazing gift.
— Access Bank Plc (@myaccessbank) June 16, 2023
Tag us and use the hashtag #AccessSuperDads
Entries close Sunday, June 18 2023.#AccessSuperDads #AccessCares #MoreThanBanking #FathersDay pic.twitter.com/FSpgC5uQcr
But Nigerian banks look at the issue of the citizens doing what in the slang of the people call, “japa” (departure). Or the Exodus. Or Checking Out. Access Bank, Zenith Bank and Fidelity Bank, amongst other banks package training skills in place to give the people skills to make those departing acquire more marketable skills from IT to export skills as enhanced empowerment.
Some of the banks now have branches abroad to make the Nigerian diaspora bank with ease. Fidelity Bank for instance, is setting foot in the UK where they are organizing Trade Expos and seminars.
Most significantly, banks seem to be looking deeply inwards to find out why most youths are voting with their feet.
Fidelity Bank Plc for instance knew that one of the reasons is the acute lack of electricity needed to power the economy.
But there’s a huge infrastructure deficit. Everyone knows.
They thus lay out a scheme to enable the people to acquire solar powered Electricity on good and affordable terms.
So it seems that the banks are pleading, please don’t go. But if you must go, take these internationally marketable skills.
And if you are staying, let’s see how we can make staying together in our homeland more comfortable.
By Greg Abolo
gregabolo@gmail.com
