Jim Ovia

Among their contemporaries are Herbert Wigwe chief executive at Access Bank group with operations in 12 countries and Jim Ovia who chairs Zenith Bank with its subsidiaries across West Africa Britain the United Arab Emirates and China...

Tito Ovia: One of the Feminist Coalition's co-founders the young entrepreneur is daughter of billionaire Zenith Bank founder Jim Ovia who is not only related to Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele but used to be his boss...

He is a protégé of banking mogul Jim Ovia the Chairman and largest individual shareholder in Zenith Bank one of Nigeria's biggest...

So a not-so-whispering campaign against Emefiele a former Deputy Managing Director of Jim Ovia's Zenith Bank has already started...

Nigerian journalists delighted in reporting Buhari's displeasure on encountering Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia two leading bankers seen as close to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government (AC Vol 55 No 19 The fire this century)...

The founder of Nigeria's Zenith Bank Jim Ovia called on the financial sector to develop a structure of loans and credits that would provide commercial incentives to green energy projects and heavily penalise high carbon ones...

Given the powerful families and businesses involved several Lagos financiers believe Sanusi will have less licence for moves such as last month’s new tenure rules for bank chief executives which ousted titans Tony Elumelu of the United Bank for Africa and Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank...

Zenith Bank: CEO Jim Ovia is on the Board of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council...

Dangote and Femi Otedola Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas along with Jim Ovia head of Zenith one of the nation’s biggest banks financed Obasanjo’s campaigns and were described as his ‘boys’...

The board of directors is an A-list of Nigerian business leaders: Chief Executive of Nigerian Breweries Festus Odimegwu; President Dangote Group of Companies Aliko Dangote; Zenith Bank Managing Director Jim Ovia; First Bank MD Jacob Moyo Ajekigbe; Chief Executive Charterhouse Group Otunba Funso Lawal; Chief Executive Zenon Petroleum Femi Otedola; United Bank for Africa MD Tony Elumelu; Chief Executive Orange Drugs Tony Ezenna; and former head of capital and money markets at Farida Investments Adegboyega Olulade...