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It’s with enormous pleasure that we announce the appointment of five interns who have joined the business and philanthropic ecosystem of Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. The five young people are on board for a year of professional growth and development and mentoring by Aigboje himself.

To celebrate the global launch of his memoir Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has created five salaried mentored internships across his businesses and philanthropic ventures.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede’s memoir Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa has been grabbing media headlines since its publication in late March.

Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa author Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede recently wrapped up the first leg of a series of global digital stakeholder events, during which he introduced his memoir to various stakeholders.

Nigerian youths urged not to miss this opportunity of a lifetime as application closing date draws closer

As part of the global launch of Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa, Mr Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has announced a golden opportunity for five young Nigerians to join his ecosystem of businesses and philanthropic ventures for a year as mentored interns.

Too often, founders and executives of businesses in Nigeria do not leave a trace of what they have done. In this review of 'Leaving the Tarmac. Buying a Bank in Africa' by the founder of Coronation Capital, and Managing Director of Access Bank, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Folahanmi Fagbule celebrates the transparency delivered by biography.

The sub-heading for this book is: Buying a bank in Africa; it tells the fascinating story of how the author, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede and his trustydeputy, Herbert Wigwe left their cushy and very prestigious jobs as Executive Directors of Nigeria’s highest-ranked bank, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), and set out into the unknown, driven by little more than a burning desire to be masters of their own destiny.

In his new book, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede recounts how he helped to build Access Bank into one of Nigeria’s top five banking institutions. Review by Stephen Williams.

'This is not the end of the journey. We are moving on to other things and to being the change we want to see in Africa.' Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa, a memoir by Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, tells the story of how he and Herbert Wigwe, with immovable faith, took steps to transform for good, profoundly and permanently, the Nigerian banking and financial sector.

In LEAVING THE TARMAC: Buying a Bank in Africa, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, immediate past CEO of Access Bank Plc, captures how he and his friend and present CEO Herbert Wigwe, bought in 2002, one of the smallest and most crisis-prone banks in Nigeria and built it to one of the top five banks in the country today, highlighting their business model, challenges, setbacks and triumphs.