That an enterprise is 120 years old, and still standing like an Iroko tree, is by all standards a rare feat.
First Bank from its humble beginnings as Bank of British West Africa (BBWA) incorporated on March 31 1894, following the entrepreneurial initiative of Alfred Lewis Jones a Liverpool based shi
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