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UBA Metropolitan Life Insurance Limited is a company that emerged following the successful recapitalization and change of name of erstwhile HEIRS Life Assurance Company Limited. The company is a joint venture between United Bank for Africa plc (UBA) and Metropolitan Holdings Limited of South Africa, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed company that has been doing business in South Africa for more than a century. This unique and potentially powerful strategic alliance has a market capitalization in excess of N2 billion.

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