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The Managing Director/Chief Executive of Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Abba Bello, has been conferred with the Honourary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

The award took place during the 2019 Investiture Programme of the Institute, which was held in Lagos on 26th October, 2019. Also honoured along with him were the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina and Professor Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank.

The conferment on Bello was in recognition of his nearly three decades of contributions to the banking profession, having held prominent positions in top-tier commercial banks, rising to the level of Executive Director at Unity Bank of Nigeria Plc, before he was appointed as the Managing Director/Chief Executive of NEXIM Bank in April, 2017.

Bello was also at different times the pioneer Chief Executive of foreign subsidiaries of the United Bank for Africa in TChad and Gambia.

Bello obtained the B.Sc. degree in Accounting from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He also earned a post-graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

With considerable experience in corporate, commercial, public sector and development banking, Bello is also a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration of Nigeria, a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, member of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria and an alumnus of the Advanced Management Programme of the Harvard Business School, United States of America.