FirstBank Empowers Women through FirstGem Online Community
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, one of Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services providers, has announced that its all-female online community www.firstgem.com.ng, offers mentoring, support, and capacity building opportunities for all to create a new generation of financially literate women.
With the aim to increase its engagement and reach a wider audience, an online repository for its FirstGem product was created and designed to provide a virtual online community where like-minded women, irrespective of where they are in Nigeria and abroad, can gather to connect, grow and share knowledge on everything about lifestyle, parenting, career development, entrepreneurship, health, work, and family. Here, financial empowerment and wealth creation ideas are shared to encourage women to play their part in providing financial support for their families.
The portal provides varied content ranging from Blog stories to Vlogs, Newsletters, Chat rooms which are built on 6 pillars – Health, Wealth and Finance, Food and Recipes, Events, Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle, and Beauty. The FirstGem online community presently has over 61,634 members drawn from all walks of life sharing ideas, insights, and experiences.
According to Chuma Ezirim, Group Executive, e-Business & Retail Products, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, “FirstGem is suited for the Nigerian woman, and we are using this online community as the ideal opportunity to position the Bank’s gender initiatives to meet the required needs on a wide range of issues affecting women from lifestyle, skills acquisition, finances, wealth acquisition and management, business support, etc“.
We encourage all women to join the community by signing up via this link https://firstgem.com.ng/community to enjoy this experience.
FirstGem is a gender-specific account designed to meet the needs of women aged 18 years and above. It is targeted at a broad spectrum of women, working professionals, entrepreneurs, and MSMEs with a view to promoting growth via an array of benefits, from free business advisory services, regular information or insights on business opportunities in various sectors and industries. It also offers mouth-watering discounts at partnered stores and outlets. FirstGem has successfully empowered women in states across the geo-political zones in Nigeria and the UK.
