As part of its 2026 Children’s Day celebrations, Wema Bank Plc has announced 10-year-old Chinmamanda Diamond Ozoakpata, as the 2026 winner of the Wema Bank One-Day MD/CEO Children’s Day initiative.
Introduced in 2025, the Wema Bank One-Day MD/CEO challenge is an industry first initiative pioneered by Wema Bank to give children across Nigeria a platform to express their ambitions, tap into their unique potential, and get hands-on insight into the responsibility and success that their future career holds.
The maiden edition saw 12-year-old Chiderije Mbah emerge as the bank’s first-ever One-Day MD/CEO and this year, 10-year-old Chinmamanda Diamond Ozoakpata, Head Girl at Redeemers Foundation Nursery and Primary School, has broken a new record, becoming the first-ever female One-Day MD/CEO of Wema Bank after her 1-minute video entry gained over 50,000 views.
Handing over the insignia of office to young Chinmamanda, Moruf Oseni, the substantive MD/CEO of Wema Bank shed light on the Bank’s inspiration behind the launch of the One-Day MD/CEO initiative.
According to him, “At our core is a deep-seated drive for inspiring children and showing them that they have what it takes to fulfil their ambition. For this reason, we launched the One-Day MD/CEO initiative in 2025, giving children the opportunity to step into the demanding yet inspiring role of MD/CEO at one of Nigeria’s longest standing institutions, Wema Bank. The impact has been phenomenal and this year, we decided to open up that opportunity to another child”.
