Context
Agency banking across Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo states required a repeatable field model for identifying agents, activating customers, improving transaction consistency and building commercial value.
Mandate
Manage the regional Xpress Point business, including agent acquisition, customer growth, transaction performance, liabilities, partnerships and field-team capability.
Leadership intervention
- Built a structured acquisition and activation rhythm across five states.
- Recruited, trained and managed a field sales force of more than 30 staff.
- Developed retail alliances and local market relationships.
- Tracked active-agent productivity and transaction outcomes.
- Connected distribution growth with customer acquisition and liability mobilisation.
Reported outcome
1,500
Active agents onboarded within one year.
36,000
Customers acquired within one year.
200,000+
Average monthly transaction count.
NGN 9B
Monthly transaction value, with liabilities improved to NGN 2 billion.
Why it matters
The experience provides a practical basis for diagnosing network activity, field execution, liquidity, customer behaviour and commercial sustainability.