This is contained in a joint statement issued on Tuesday by the CBN and the NCC on pricing of USSD services posted on the apex bank website.
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This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by the Ministry of Health.
Airtel in a statement in Lagos said it was following an approval from the Federal Government, which granted them a verification and enrolment licence.
This followed the recent announcement by the West African Examinations Council of the commencement of the sale of WAEC GCE registration PINs, which closes on January 29, 2021.
With the 22X offer, subscribers who recharge with N100 will be credited with N2,200 value.
The Bank’s USSD smart code (*833#) offers quick, convenient and seamless banking services to the users to carry out their transactions easily from any type of phone without the need for data.
The USSD code allows customers deactivate their USSD profile once their mobile devices get lost or stolen.
Following increasing reports of positive COVID-19 cases, the bank has encouraged its customers to take advantage of alternative banking channels (ALAT and *945#) to carry out bank transactions rather than risk going out to branches.
The investment in the Bank’s mobile banking infrastructure is in furtherance of the need to deepen financial inclusion in the country, enabling account opening to be carried out on its *894# USSD banking, FirstMobile (self-service telephone banking), its website – www.firstbanknigeria.com – as well as the Bank’s staff, through the Direct Sales Executive (DSE) application installed on their mobile phone, ATMs and the bank’s over 55,000 FirstMonie Agents spread across the country, the Bank said in a statement on Monday.
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of Standard Bank Group, has assured its esteemed customers of continued commitment to instituting proactive steps to safeguard against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has opposed plans by MTN to charge their subscribers for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data access to banking services from October 21.
The solution, which fulfills the mantra of being Africa’s Gold Standard for payments, allows for enhanced interoperability amongst stakeholders in the payment ecosystem.
The Bank has continued to expand the services and features of the 737 service platform to make banking from a mobile device simple, fast and secure.
The 894 banking scheme, which is the fastest growing USSD scheme in the market, grew by about 250 per cent in 2017 to over 4.5 million customers with a target base of over 6.5 million before the end of this year
The USSD code: *4018#, which was unveiled in Lagos on Wednesday, enables shareholders to perform a lot of tasks, including checking their outstanding dividend, shareholding balance, confirming bank mandate right from their mobile phones from the comfort of their homes, work places or leisure.