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Type
  
Public limited company

Services
  
Banking

Founder
  
Ibru Family

Industry
  
Finance

Revenue
  
₦74.9 billion

Founded
  
1990

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Headquarters
  
Herbert Macaulay Way, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria

Key people
  
Hayford Kponmwonsa Alile, Chairman John Aboh, Managing Director & CEO

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Oceanic Bank International, commonly referred to as Oceanic Bank, is a bank in Nigeria. Oceanic provides individual, commercial and corporate banking services.

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History

As of Monday, October 24 2011, Oceanic Bank was acquired by Ecobank Transnational Incorporation (ETI)Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/eti-takes-over-oceanic-bank/

Oceanic Bank was incorporated on March 26, 1990, as a private limited liability company with 100% equity ownership by Nigerian citizens, and licensed on April 10, 1990, to carry on commercial banking. The bank commenced business on June 12, 1990, at the Waterfront Plaza, Plot 270, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos. It was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on June 25, 2004. In October 2010, Cecilia Ibru, the former head of Oceanic Bank, was sentenced to eighteen months and ordered to forfeit over US$1 billion for fraud.

Following the sentencing of Mrs Ibru after she pleaded guilty to three-count charge bordering on negligence, reckless grant of credit facilities and mismanagement of depositors’ funds, the Bank was put into and administration and subsequently acquired in 2011 by a rival bank, Ecobank. In June 2014, Mrs Ibru files a motion at the Abuja Federal High Court asking the court to reverse the acquisition of Oceanic Bank.

Global presence

As of May 2009, Oceanic Bank had subsidiaries in the following countries:

  • Cameroon
  • Gambia - This subsidiary was closed in January 2011.
  • Ghana
  • Nigeria
  • São Tomé and Príncipe - Sold to Global Fleet Group in May 2011.
  • Subsidiaries

    The bank has the following subsidiary companies:

  • Oceanic Registrars Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • Oceanic Trustees Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • Oceanic Custodian Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • Oceanic Insurance Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • Oceanic Homes Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • Oceanic Securities Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • Oceanic Asset Management Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
  • References

    Oceanic Bank Wikipedia