Unified Payments Appoints New Directors

Unified Payment Services Limited has appointed Babatunde Okeniyi, director, Marketing and Sales and Sina Joseph as director, Information Technology & Operations.

Okeniyi will bring to his new position, institutional knowledge of Unified Payments, wealth of experience of about two decades and valuable industry contacts.

 Until his new appointment, Babatunde was director, IT/Operations in Unified Payments, a position he attained after working as group head, Operations.

Prior to becoming a member of the Unified Payments family, Babatunde worked in different institutions including Citibank Nigeria and UBA Plc where he was general manager and group chief information officer (CIO).

Babatunde is a fellow, International Academy of Cards & Payments, alumnus of Lagos Business School where he completed his Advance Management Programme (AMP), Obafemi Awolowo University (B.Sc.) and University of Lagos (MBA).

Sina Joseph brings to Unified Payments, a wealth of experience spanning over 2 decades. After a fulfilling career in Citi Bank Nigeria, Sina joined the services of Access Bank where he worked and rose to the position of chief information officer.

He subsequently worked in Keystone Bank (formerly Bank PHB) general manager and head of Information Technology.

Upon disengagement from Keystone Bank, Sina enrolled for his General Management Programme (GMP) at the prestigious Harvard Business School and completed in May, 2013 before returning to Nigeria to join the services of Unified Payments effective June, 2013.

In addition to being an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Sina is an alumnus of University of Benin where he distinguished himself by obtaining a First Class Degree (B. Sc. Hons.) in Industrial Mathematics.

Sina is an industry player and valuable asset. He has been involved in different industry projects including (i) Member, CBN Technical Committee for implementation of RTGS (ii) NIBSS’ Board Technical Committee for selection of National Central Switch; and (iii) Chairman, NIBSS’ Committee for setting the Rules and Standards for the National Central Switch.

Unified Payments® is a card-neutral and option-neutral Payments Service Provider owned by a consortium of leading Nigerian banks.

Unified Payments® operates as a shared infrastructure for the banking community in Nigeria and Payments Service Provider within and outside Nigeria, with a mission to be the most preferred e-payment service provider in Africa.

Formerly known as ValuCard Nigeria Limited, the name of the Company was changed in 2012 to reflect its new business, following a successful transformation from a domestic card scheme to a provider of payment services supporting different payment options and schemes.