![]() It has no customer locker to keep things that can’t be taken into the banking hall, so customers have had to put down their belongings on a bare floor at an oblique angle as they walk into the branch afraid for the safety of the items left behind. It has a single Security Personnel outside the banking hall at the security entrance. It has a large parking space that takes up to 15 cars at a time. This branch is located along the Allen Avenue Ikeja, Lagos. The branch toilet was located outside the banking hall and inside the security post, it was apparently designed for pigmies and terribly untidy with a leaky that gushed out like a fountain from the wash hand basin. The situation was, however, corrected later by the security man on duty. The bank has a water dispenser filled with water but without disposable cups, perhaps they expected customers to drink water with cupped hands. There were a couple of customer care representatives at different angles sitting idly in search of something to do. There were three Tellers at the counter transacting business with a handful of customers queued up in front of them, there were also a number of customers that came in to make deposits. The branch has a fair-sized banking hall, in which the environment was clean and tidy it is conducive and surprisingly pleasant. On getting to the security entrance, we noticed that out of the two security doors just one was working and the other one was left locked and the officer in charge kept a chair in front of it to keep customers from using the faulty door. The branch has a Security Personnel accompanied by a Mobile Police officer who mans the security post. It is an old tired looking building with a medium sized parking lot that can contain 10 cars on the average. This branch is situated amongst the several banks that line Oba Akran Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos. But your guess is as good as anybody’s that most of the branches gave fresh meaning to the term, ‘Ghost Town’ as banking halls were as empty as oysters without its pearl. The bank’s branches were found at Oba Akran and Allen Avenue, both in Ikeja Lagos and Mowe in Ogun. For those who are still aware that a bank called Unity Bank exists and may have sighted one or two branches, the question that might advertently bother their minds is what actually happens inside these gated buildings? Last week, Business Hallmark took a trip around Lagos and environs to find branches of the bank and ascertain the level of activity that go on inside its shuttered doors. Indeed the bank these days is more renowned for its anonymity than for its commercial business. ![]() Quite a number of people forget that there is a bank called ‘Unity Bank Plc’. ![]()
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