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Monday, October 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FirstBank, the premier slope successful West Africa and a starring fiscal inclusion work provider, is arrogant to denote the commencement of its 2025 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) Week, scheduled to clasp from 27 October – 1 November 2025. Now successful its ninth year, the yearly lawsuit is simply a reflection of the Bank’s committedness to assemblage empowerment, biology stewardship, and the advancement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through the ‘Start Performing Acts of Random Kindness’ (SPARK) initiative, FirstBank continues to physique connected its bequest of sowing seeds of kindness, with a absorption connected uplifting communities and reducing biology impact. During CR&S Week, the Bank mobilises employees crossed the FirstBank Group, including FirstBank Nigeria, FirstBank UK, FirstBank Gambia, FirstBank Sierra Leone, FirstBank DRC, FirstBank Guinea, FirstBank Ghana, FBNBank Senegal, First Pension, and First Nominees, to dedicate their clip and resources to meaningful causes aligned with the Bank’s sustainability strategy.
Commenting connected the week-long event, Acting Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications astatine FirstBank, Olayinka Ijabiyi, said, “CR&S Week is simply a telephone to action. It is astir showing up for humanity, being benignant to 1 another, and proving that adjacent the smallest enactment tin ripple into lasting change. FirstBank believes that kindness is simply a currency that ne'er devalues, and that is wherefore each twelvemonth since 2017, unit person gone the other mile to springiness backmost to the communities done its SPARK initiative, portion besides encouraging radical to execute acts of random kindness.”
The Bank plans to works astatine slightest 20,000 trees wrong the week successful concern with the Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF), successful the last signifier of its enactment for the Nigeria’s 2060 decarbonisation agenda. This effort builds connected the Bank’s pledge to works 50,000 trees by 2025, with 31,000 trees successfully planted implicit the past 2 years.
Additionally, successful enactment with FirstBank’s committedness to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG) of women empowerment, the Bank volition collaborate with Borno and Katsina States to rise and supply aesculapian interventions (including surgeries and post-care kits) for women surviving with Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF).
Throughout the week, FirstBank unit volition beryllium inspired to stock messages of kindness, fostering a civilization of compassion, civility, and empathy crossed the Bank. The programme volition diagnostic t...
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