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    Monday, September 16, 2013

    Heritage Bank Partners Pan Atlantic University

    Heritage Bank Limited has gone into collaboration with the Pan Atlantic University (PAU) by sponsoring the latter’s first Virtual Arts Museum as part of efforts to encourage operators in the art sector.
    Heritage Bank also announced that it has concluded arrangement to work in partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the PAU on the 7th edition of the EDC’s conference on small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) that would take place in Lagos on September 25. The bank said the move was to promote economic development and entrepreneurship.

    A statement said the Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art, an online, free, searchable database of Nigerian art serves as an educational resource that would contribute to the dissemination of knowledge on modern Nigerian art and artists among the widest possible audience.

    The Managing Director/Chief Executive, Heritage Bank Limited, Mr. Ifie Sekibo, said: “The Virtual Museum of Modern Arts is in line with our mission to preserve and transfer wealth. Preserving our heritage is a mission. A lot of people think preserving heritage is all about money, but heritage is also about what we leave behind for posterity, like the way of life, the culture we leave behind.

    “Art is certainly a way of life; it is a depiction of a way of life. So it is a major thing for us to sponsor, as a way so that we are giving back to our society as part of our corporate social responsibility.”

    Sekibo said the sponsorship was also in recognition of the huge cultural and economic benefits the museum offers to Nigeria, especially SMEs.

    “Beyond that, it is also about our business. There is business in arts and it is in the form of SME. Those young men that would paint, sculpt, carve, it is an opportunity for them to display their wares and people would come to buy them,” he added.

    On the other hand, speaking on the forthcoming EDC’s annual SMEs’ conference, the Head of SME at Heritage Bank, Bayo Ogunnusi, explained that the bank was wholly committed to working with stakeholders to support SMEs in the country.
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