By Angela Atabo

The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) says  it recorded a total of N13 billion in operational surplus in the first half of 2025.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive of FMBN, Shehu Osidi, made this known on Wednesday, at the 2025 FMBN Management retreat along Abuja-Kaduna expressway Niger.

Osidi said the retreat with the theme ‘‘Process Re-Engineering for Optimal Performance’’,  aimed at touching on some of the milestones recorded in 2024 and set the tone for Management expectations and the deliverables from the 2025.

According to him, the Bank recorded commendable progress in several areas, since the last retreat.

“At the time, I announced a half-year surplus of N4.9B, the first in the history of the Bank.

However, by the end of the year 2024, that surplus grew to N11.9b.

“Following that trend, by the half-year management account for 2025, we have made over N13b as surplus.

“Though these figures may be largely eroded eventually by provisioning, the trajectory shows that we are on the right track to chart a new course for FMBN,” he said.

Osidi explained that closely related to financial sustainability and transparency, the Bank has also succeeded in clearing a 4-year backlog of the FMBN audited accounts for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

He said currently, the audit of 2022 accounts have been concluded and submitted to the CBN.

” I have also just signed off on the commencement of the 2023 audit. It is our plan to clear the remaining backlog and bring the Bank up to date by the end of the year.

“All these developments are significant in the life of any corporate organisation desiring long-term growth and financial sustainability, “he said.

Osidi said that under the National Housing Fund (NHF) operations, FMBN’s annual collections also grew by N3 billion in 2024 resulting in a total collection of N103 billion, compared to the N100 billion the Bank recorded in 2023.

He added that by half-year 2025, FMBN had collected N73.9 billion against N49.6 billion collected in the corresponding period for 2024..

Osidi expressed optimism that if the bank could sustain the positive trend, it would  surpass the collections for 2024, significantly.

He however, said the big elephant in the room was the deployment of the Core-Banking application (CBA), a technology that was expected to herald a massive transformation in the way FMBN conducts business.

“In my address at the last retreat, I expressed the intention of this Management to make the application work and conclude it speedily.

“I am happy to report today that we have closed-out the deployment of the application and we are now in a six-month maintenance phase which is due to end by the end of this month,” he said.

Osidi recalled that during the 2024 retreat the Bank took a step to constitute seven Recovery Task Teams to recover delinquent loans across the country’s geo-political zones.

He disclosed that, by the end of 2024, the Task Teams had recovered N10.9 billion, a figure that has grown to N18.9 billion at the end of June, 2025.

Osidi attributed the feats to the capacity of the staff members and their commitment to the organisation.(NAN)

Edited by Rotimi Ijikanmi