The Committee of e-Business Industry Heads (CeBIH) has elected a new Executive Committee led by Mrs. Abidemi Asunmo as Chairman, with a mandate to deepen collaboration, strengthen advocacy and drive innovation across Nigeria’s financial and payments ecosystem.

Asunmo, who is also the Group Head, e-Business and Transaction Banking of Premium Trust Bank, becomes the 10th Chairman of CeBIH and the third woman to occupy the position, unveiled an agenda centred on Payment System Vision 2028 implementation, advocacy, combat against fraud, digital identity, ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and inclusion during the 2026 CeBIH election and swearing-in ceremony.

The new Executive Committee include Abednego Ugwueke, Vice-Chairman; Temitope Onibaniyi, Secretary, Industry Shared Services; Jimmy Banjoko, Secretary, Pricing & Revenue Assurance; Dr. Sunday Olaniyan, Secretary, OFIs & Fintech Relations; and Lanre Ogundare, Secretary, Emerging Payments & Technologies. Others are Gbolabo Cole, Chief Finance Secretary; Abayomi Olomu, Treasurer; Akinlabi Adegoke, Secretary, Publicity & Advocacy; Adaeze Ume, Internal Auditor; Daniel Ivagba, Head, e-Banking Operations Sub-Committee; and Dr. Uju Ndu-Okereke, Provost, CeBIH Academy.

Unveiling the administration’s priorities, Asunmo said, “At the top of our agenda is our commitment to supporting the successful implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Payment System Vision 2028,” which she said provides a roadmap covering “financial inclusion, digital payments growth, open banking, cybersecurity and regulatory efficiency.” She pledged that CeBIH would strengthen engagement with regulators and stakeholders to ensure that the vision translates “from policy into meaningful industry outcomes.”

On advocacy and inclusion, Asunmo said CeBIH would expand its engagement beyond regulators and industry stakeholders to ordinary Nigerians and consumers of banking services.

“Our advocacy cannot stop with regulators and industry stakeholders; we must increasingly engage the Nigerian public—the ultimate beneficiaries of the financial ecosystem we are helping to build,” she said.

She added that the committee would explore initiatives around “consumer education, media engagement, digital banking awareness, fraud prevention and public conversations on the future of financial services,” stressing that “CeBIH must become more visible and accessible to the people whose trust ultimately determines the success of digital financial services.”

On digital identity and inclusion, Asunmo said, “Nigeria’s digital economy cannot reach its full potential without a trusted and effective digital identity infrastructure.” She said this would help expand access to “banking, payments, credit and other financial services.”

She also identified artificial intelligence as a major opportunity for expanding access, saying it could improve “customer onboarding, personalized services and improved access for underserved populations.”

The Chairman pledged to promote responsible innovation anchored on “trust, privacy, security and inclusion,” while strengthening capacity building through the CeBIH Academy.
She noted that her administration would ensure that member banks “collaborate more than they compete deliver more value to the banking populace.

CeBIH is constituted of the upper echelon of electronic business industry practitioners in all Banks in Nigeria with its major and most important objective being the promotion of electronic banking services in line with global best practices whilst driving its adoption through right policies, standards, technologies and public awareness programs in Nigeria.