The bank rolled out the opportunities at its virtual town-hall meeting/webinar series held by the
Speaking on health and new educational opportunities, Mr.
He said, going forward, there would be a need for portions of the educational curriculum to be online so that pupils and students could learn by watching educational videos online over and over.
Ukachukwu also talked about franchising opportunities, noting that there will be opportunities for partnerships with other educational institutions to enhance competition as well as consolidation of operations to drive down costs.
He added that the bank would position its customers to effectively access funding that will enable them to maximise opportunities in the changing environment post COVID-19.
He advised pharmaceutical companies to pool resources together to produce general drugs and consolidate their operations. He also advised consolidation in the hospital value chain, open Electronic Management Records (EMR) and making EMR mandatory for hospitals arguing that hospitals without EMR would likely lose patients.
He advised the citizenry to download Tremendoc App, a health app, to enable them to gain access to medical consultancy online also stressed the need to fund EMRs.
Also speaking, Mrs.
Awosanya observed that there are huge opportunities for agricultural development in the South East of the country because the soil profile in the area could easily support the production of cash crops like cashew and oil palm which are in high demand in the export market.
She said the region is also able to provide opportunities for rice plantation and processing as well as large mechanised farming, including cassava chips for export and local consumption or industrial use of cassava starch. She added that opportunities to process cocoa into cake and butter are equally available in the region.
According to her, the region also has opportunities for poultry, hatcheries and egg production as well as access to market.
Awosanya said the bank has provided warehousing facilities across the country to enable farmers to warehouse their produce, obtain receipts for them which they can convert to liquidity and sell when they want.
She also talked about smart agriculture, aquaculture value chain, agro-e-commerce and financing solutions provided by the bank to meet the financial needs of prospective and existing customers from the region.
Mr.
He said the bank's distributors' finance scheme provides customers with working capital, partner with them to take advantage of opportunities to enable them to have quick access to finance under 72 hours of up to N500 million at competitive interest rates and also by lending through Specta.
Abidemi Asunmo, Head, Transactions Banking Collections of
Vanguard
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