The administration of TAJBank Ltd, a non-interest bank in Nigeria, has continued its ongoing effort to increase the brand’s penetration throughout the nation by opening a new branch in Kano.
Just one week had passed since the bank’s Apapa-Lagos branch had opened, and two days had passed since its N10 billion Sukuk bond issuance had been listed on the Nigerian Exchange, becoming TAJBank the country’s first corporate issuer of Sukuk bonds.
Mr. Hamid Joda, the bank’s managing director and chief executive officer, explained to the hundreds of businesspeople, artisans, and individuals who expressed interest in becoming some of the bank’s first clients during the Kano branch opening event that the management had decided to further consolidate on the bank’s core competencies.
“As you may be aware, we just opened our Apapa-Lagos branch a few days ago. Coming to Kano to open this new branch, along with the existing ones here, is a demonstration of TAJBank board and management’s commitment to offering what no other bank is offering now to customers. I want to assure you that, as our operations mantra says, ‘our only interest is you’, our highly valued customers”, he added.
Joda stated that more TAJBank branches would open before the end of the first quarter of the year across the six geo-political zones in order to deepen the nation’s financial inclusion and, by extension, lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty through the delivery of customized products and services by the bank to its expanding customer base.
This follows the CBN’s licensing of TAJBank to operate nationwide.During the branch opening, Alhaji Ali Balarabe commented on the bank’s strengths in terms of its customer-friendly services, robust Information and Communications Technology (ICT) assets, and highly competent and polite staff, saying that customers’ experiences at TAJBank’s branches everywhere attested to the fact that the bank was out to really serve its customers in ways no other financial institution had.
