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Lagos, Nigeria

• Planned and developed short, medium- and long-term strategic objectives for building agricultural value chain business within States in the Southern part of Nigeria.
• Strategically developed innovative ways to develop the small-scale farmers business within the region.
• Identified sub-segment opportunities and designed value propositions to effectively service these sub-segments in the South.
• Took ownership of all agricultural banking segment projects and initiatives and ensured effective project management.
• Ensured project completion within agreed timelines and budgets, managed project stakeholders.
• Coordinated and developed suitable agricultural activities in the South, monitored performance where necessary.

• Involved in the setting up of the Agricultural Desk in South West and South East with Lagos and Enugu as their hub respectively.
• Identified new business opportunities and established, developed and utilized networks of internal and external contacts to build and grow asset base.
• Prepared and designed agricultural product papers; sensitized the network on the implementation of approved product papers.
• Identified, appraised and monitored key agricultural projects especially in the South West.

• Participated actively as a member in the FLEXCUBE upgrade team charged with the development, setting of parameters, users application testing and readiness for Loans and Term Deposits.
• Provided 4 Farmers from Lagos Zone that won the CBN farmer of the year 2004 and 2006 in State and National categories.
• Consistently maintained over 95% recovery on the entire facility disbursed under the ACGSF and other lending windows.
• Developed the specific agricultural product code for MIS application.
• Steadily increased on the global limit facility disbursed to small scale farmers under the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund.
• Developed a simplified method of collating and rendering returns to Management.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Agricultural Economics And Extension

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