INSIDE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA'S APPROACH TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
EDUCATING NIGERIA, ONE COMMUNITY AT A TIME: INSIDE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA'S APPROACH TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Nigeria's economic ambitions, whether higher productivity, a more competitive private sector, or stronger household resilience, all eventually run through the same bottleneck: the quality of the country's human capital. For a bank, that fact carries a quiet implication. The customers, entrepreneurs, and employees of the next two decades are sitting in classrooms today, and many of those classrooms are under-resourced. It is in that context that Union Bank of Nigeria has built its corporate social responsibility agenda around one of its major pillars – education. The thinking is not that a bank can fix Nigerian education, but that a bank has both the reach and the long-term interest to contribute meaningfully to it. THE SCOPE OF THE WORK Union Bank's education work runs through Edu360, a platform that gathers the Bank's various school, teacher, and youth...