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FIRSTBANK PARTNERS NIBSS TO DRIVE DIGITAL PAYMENT CONVENIENCE WITH NIGERIA QUICK RESPONSE (NQR) FirstBank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services organisation has announced its partnership with Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System plc (NIBSS) on its recently launched Nigeria Quick Response (NQR) Payment Solution. The NQR is an ...

  Four hours after President Muhammadu Buhari launched the digital currency, eNaira App, Nigerians are having problems signing into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) digital currency platform. The eNaira, which was launched 24 days behind schedule, has recorded more than 5000 downloads on Google Playstore and 442 reviews by ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has integrated 33 Banks into the eNaira platform with N500m successfully minted by the apex bank for the take off of the digital currency programme. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said this on Monday at the official launch of the Nigerian Central Bank ...

  Nigerian billionaire businessman and investor, Femi Otedola, on Friday, reportedly took over First Bank of Nigeria Plc. According to The Street Journal, Otedola took over the bank with the acquisition of about ₦30 billion worth of shares, making him the single largest shareholder of the bank. Otedola, being the ...

Wigwe, Emefiele honoured with Juris Law Award for outstanding contributions in finance sector The Chairman, Body of Bank CEOs and Group Managing Director of Access Bank PLC, Herbert Wigwe, has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to Corporate Governance and Rule of Law in Nigeria’s Banking Industry. Wigwe was presented ...

Winners Emerge in 7th UBA Bumper Savings Account Promo     Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has again rewarded its loyal customers in its Bumper Savings Promo in line with its unwavering commitment towards prioritising its customers’ financial well-being as well as boosting savings culture in Nigeria. Since the ...

Winners Emerge in 7th UBA Bumper Savings Account Promo   Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has again rewarded its loyal customers in its Bumper Savings Promo in line with its unwavering commitment towards prioritising its customers’ financial well-being as well as boosting savings culture in Nigeria. Since the bank commenced ...

Heritage Bank Director, LASAA seeks sustainable PPP model for financing advertising sector …Commends Lagos State’s smart city project   The Executive Director, Heritage Bank Plc, Jude Monye disclosed that one of the ways out-of-home advertising industry can attain massive growth was via the adoption of public-private-partnership (PPP) model to ensure ...

Super Brands Must Synergize To Solve Africa’s Problems – Akinwuntan The Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan has advocated a synergy between super brands in Africa to solve the multifarious challenges facing the continent. Akinwuntan, who made this submission at the International Advertising Association (IAA) Africa Rising 4 virtual conference, ...

FINTECH 5.0: EVALUATING HOW FIRSTBANK STRENGTHENS COLLABORATION …To drive financial inclusion It was Sir Isaac Newton, in his letter to Robert Hooke in 1675, who wrote the now-famous quote: “If I have seen further (than others), it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The shoulders of giants Sir ...