Zenith Bank Top Awards List As Toyota Nigeria Marks 30 Years of Automotive Excellence

Zenith Bank Plc led the pack as the biggest winner during the last 2026 annual Toyota Nigeria Ltd Awards during which both Customers and outstanding Motoring journalists are recognized and rewarded appropriately.

During the Award night of glitz and networking among guests, Zenith Bank Plc won the coveted Evergreen Customer of the Year Award for the second consecutive year in recognition of its exceptional patronage of Toyota vehicles over the past five years from 2021 to 2025.

For the bank’s cumulative year’s of injecting more Toyota vehicles into its corporate fleet, Chief Michael Ade.Ojo, chairman, Toyota Nigeria Ltd (TNL) assisted by Kunle Ade-Ojo, managing director of Toyota Nigeria Ltd handed over keys of a brand new Toyota Starlet Cross to the representatives of Zenith Bank Plc.

The colourful event, held on Friday, June 5, 2026, at The Podium Event Centre in Lekki, Lagos, brought together large gathering of customers, dealers, government officials, corporate partners, media practitioners and industry stakeholders to celebrate the achievements of TNL and strengthen the partnerships that have sustained its leadership in Nigeria’s automotive industry.

The annual awards ceremony serves as a platform to reward loyal customers, honour strategic partners and reinforce the company’s customer-first philosophy.

It would be recalled that Zenith Bank banking giant emerger as the customer with the highest cumulative vehicle purchases between 2020 and 2024.

In keeping with its tradition of recognising contributors across its business ecosystem, Toyota Nigeria also honoured outstanding automotive journalists whose reports and analyses helped shape public understanding of developments in the industry.

In the journalists category rewarded for their consistent coverage of the automotive sector and insightful reporting on industry trends and Toyota’s innovations, Theodore Opara of Vanguard Newspaper emerged in the first position while Mike Ochonma of Transportworld came second and Rasheed Bisiriyu of Newstrends was named as winner of the third position.

The three veteran journalists were rewarded for their contributions to Nigeria’s automotive journalism, particularly in the areas of vehicle technology, mobility solutions and market analysis.

The competition in the Customer of the Year category was equally keen. AGL Motors emerged as the overall winner, while the Nigerian Army and Zenith Bank finished as first and second runners-up respectively.

The winners received office equipment worth several millions of naira while winner journalists won different specifications of washing machines.

This year’s edition carried special significance as Toyota Nigeria Limited celebrated its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of operations since its establishment in 1996.

MIKE OCHONMA
EDITOR

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