LAGOS MARCH 9, 2017 – FIRSTBank has unveiled a product designed to benefit women professionals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, women in paid employment as well as low income earners, traders and artisans.
The product known as FirstGem lifestyle offering for women provides female customers with access to support funds for their total financial empowerment, free business advisory, specialized trainings on business development initiatives, regular information and insight on business opportunities in various sectors and industries as well as tremendous discounts at merchant outlets that offer lifestyle products and services amongst other benefits.
Speaking recently at a Summit on Women Empowerment organised by Oyo State Ministry of Women Affairs in collaboration with FirstBank, Mrs.
Ibukun Awosika, Chairman, Board of Directors, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, asserted that the FirstGem offering is targeted towards purposeful wealth creation and it is designed to provide enabling opportunities for women to achieve their financial goals and aspirations. She encouraged the women to leverage the FirstGem offering to build investments for themselves.
“You do not build wealth by thinking about it, you build wealth by taking a deliberate action,” she counseled. Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, Wife of the Oyo State Governor and the host of the summit advised participants to take advantage of the FirstGem Savings plan to create wealth for the future.
FirstGem comes in variants of Savings and Current accounts and it is designed to benefit women professionals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, women in paid employment as well as low income earners, traders and artisans.
