Please be informed that you are now required to pay a fee of N6.98 to your mobile network provider for every banking transaction carried out on all Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD banking platforms. This means that when you access any banking service using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, a fee ...
Read More »FIRSTBANK CLINCHES ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION; RANKED SECOND MOST ADMIRED FINANCIAL SERVICES BRAND IN AFRICA
FirstBank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has been ranked the second ‘most admired financial services brand’ in Africa – for the second straight year – at the 2021 Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands Event, held on Africa day, 25th May 2021. Brand Africa ...
Read More »You Are Fired! Twitter Operations Suspended By Federal Government
The Federal government has suspended the operations of Twitter, the microblogging and social networking service, in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed, minister of information, announced the suspension in a statement issued on Friday. The suspension of the social networking service was also shared on the Twitter handle of the federal ministry of ...
Read More »Kukah Quipped: We Knows Bandits and Killers But Can’t Call Them Terrorists
The Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto diocese, Matthew Kukah, has faulted the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for its refusal to declare bandits as a terrorist group. Kukah, in his homily at the burial of Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Bello, which held at Our Lady ...
Read More »Amotekun Warned: Foreign Herdsmen Are In Our Forests
The Chairman of the Oyo State of South-West Security Network, aka Amotekun, Gen. Kunle Togun (retd), on Wednesday advised residents of South-West states to be vigilant because of the presence of foreign Fulani herdsmen in forests in the region. The Amotekun Commandant, who was a director at the Directorate ...
Read More »Primate Ayodele, NAOSRE President, Others Storm Obadimu Newsextre Publisher’s Wedding
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele who was represented by Mrs Bolanle Aina, ex-House of Assembly candidate for Abeokuta South constituency II of Ogun State, Igbalaye Wasiu Ayodele, the president of National Association of Online Security Reporters, NAOSRE, Oyewale Femi were among dignitaries who attended the ...
Read More »FirstBank: All Our Branches In South East Are Working
In a Public Announcement coming from the corporate communications department of FirstBank, Nigeria’s leading bank, the rumor that the bank offices in the South-Eastern part of the country has been shut was refuted. Below is the statement made available to us; Public Announcement This is to inform the public that our South ...
Read More »JCI Ikeja Sensitisises Entrepreneurs on Business Innovation, Creativity
Junior Chamber International, JCI, Ikeja has recently organised its annual forum which was focused on reaching out and sensitising Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) on how to scale up innovation and creativity in the various sectors of the economy. JCI revealed that in order for entrepreneurs to be successful ...
Read More »Bello-Koko: A Vision That Turned Around NPA By Olatunbosun Olupitan
Though the acting Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko is yet to reel off his plan of action after his appointment weeks back, sources close to the new boss atthe Nigerian sector regulator have hinted on some aspects of his job that he hopes to put in ...
Read More »Fidelity Bank Celebrates Children’s Day
…62 SWEETA Holders Receive N150, 000 Each Fidelity Bank remains committed to putting smiles on its customers’ faces by enriching their lives through its ongoing savings loyalty program. To mark this year’s Children’s Day, the bank doled out N150, 000 to 62 Sweet Account (SWEETA) holders across the country, a ...
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