Reginald Ihejiahi at 60: Tribute to a ‘human being’ vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
MOST people know Reginald Ihejiahi, immediate past Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, as a very brilliant banker. They talk about his academic exploits at ABU Zaria, where he studied accounting and London School of Economics, where he obtained his M.Sc. in Finance and went on to become a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, ACCA, of England and Wales.
Insightful leadership: During the 2008/2009 economic meltdown, most banks in the country down-sized. A proposal was brought to Ihejiahi that Fidelity should lay-off 20 per cent of the staff. He rejected that. His reason was that no proper assessment had been done to determine who this 20 per cent should be. He said “if I tell you supervisors now to supply the names, you will quickly bring the names of people who are not greeting you well.
A family man: It’s not just his family that he loves. If you relate with him, he would encourage you to love your own family. The family is so important to him that his dictum is: before you vote for the politician seeking to govern you, find out how he governs his own family. A reading man: At every point in time, Ihejiahi is reading at least three books. In addition to professional books, his favorite subjects include biographies of famous leaders, history, travelogue, geography, people. It was from him I came to I know about the Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa. From him I knew about the works of Suetonius – Lives of the Caesars/The Twelve Caesars, the biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of Rome.
He truly cares: Many of his former staff in the bank testify that they own the piece of the earth they occupy today because he guided them. He would call you into his office and ask you “what investments do you have?” He would remind you that your honest income is enough for you to invest and live happily if you shun living other people’s lives.
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