The Group Managing Director/CEO of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Kennedy Uzoka, has been announced as one of the winners of the 2019 Zik Award for Professional Leadership.
Uzoka clinched the award alongside the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta.
The Zik leadership awards is organised by the Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre (PPRAC) and was instituted 25 years ago, in 1995, in honour of the first President of Nigeria, the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, primarily to encourage and nurture leadership on the African continent and in the diaspora. The UBA GMD and others were announced winners in a letter signed by a Member of the Advisory Board of PPRAC, Prof. Pat Utomi, and the Executive Secretary, Emeka Obasi.
