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- 9 Aug 2021
FirstBank Lifts its Firstmonie Agents with N100Bn Loan
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced that it has economically empowered its Firstmonie Agents with the sum of N100 billion. This is…
- 25 Jun 2019
FirstBank Hits 27,000 Banking Agents, Deepens Financial Inclusion
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that it now has over 27,000 agents on its Firstmonie network. This feat, according to a statement from the bank yesterday, reinforces its steering role at…
- 1 Nov 2019
FirstBank Rewards Top Performing Agents with over N15m
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has expressed its commitment to driving financial inclusion across Nigeria. With currently over 37,000 Firstmonie Agents, present in 99 per cent of the 774 Local…
- 7 Aug 2020
FirstBank Processed N6 Trillion Transactions Via FirstMonie — Adeduntan
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has said that it has processed transactions worth over N6 trillion on its FirstMonie Agent network as at July 2020. Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, chief executive officer,…
- 3 Jan 2019
First Bank Extends Agent Banking In Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta
As a part of efforts to deepen Financial Inclusion in Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria Limited extended the Agent Banking campaign to 14 major markets and business points across Bayelsa, Cross River…
- 29 Mar 2019
FirstBank Reinforces Financial Inclusion Drive with Market Activations
First Bank of Nigeria Limited extended the Agent Banking campaign to 14 major markets and business points across Bayelsa, Cross River and Delta State. The Market Activation which spanned over…
- 30 Dec 2018
First Bank Extends Agency Banking Network
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has extended its agency banking network to 14 major markets and business points across Bayelsa, Cross River and Delta states through a campaign. The bank said in…
- 6 Feb 2019
First Bank, Azuri Launch Pay-as-You-Go Solar Services
First Bank of Nigeria and Azuri Technologies, a pay-as-you-go solar technology, have announced a partnership that will allow customers to access solar services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Under…
- 31 May 2020
FirstBank Leverages Technology to Promote Virtual Bank Account Opening
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has said it has reinforced its technology infrastructure to enable anyone in the country open a FirstBank account through their mobile phones, without visiting any of…
- 11 Jan 2019
How FirstBank is Making Customers Stay-Connected Through Its e-Channels
Folarin is a smart entrepreneur who is in touch with technological advancement and the digital age. He has different apps on his mobile phone which he uses to organise both his business and private…
- 29 Aug 2025
FirstBank’s ₦1 Trillion Digital Lending Milestone: A New Era of Inclusive Finance
For decades, Nigeria's credit system posed significant challenges for small businesses and low-income earners, who often struggled to qualify for loans. Traditional banks demanded collaterals,…
- 18 Apr 2021
FirstBank Launches New Website
FirstBank, Nigeria has announced the launch of its newly designed website: https://www.firstbanknigeria.com/. According to a statement from the bank, the new website was upgraded with features that…
- 26 Apr 2019
First Bank’s Mobile Money Agents Process over $490m Transactions Monthly
First Bank of Nigeria has said that its efforts to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria has grown its network of mobile money agents to over 22,000 agents. The bank also said the agents had…
- 4 Sept 2025
FirstBank Unveils FirstMonie Merchant Solution to Revolutionize Digital Payments in Nigeria
In a bold move to deepen financial inclusion and modernize Nigeria’s payment ecosystem, FirstBank has launched its cutting-edge FirstMonie Merchant Solution, a platform designed to empower businesses…
- 10 Jun 2014
IFC, Firstmonie Partner on Access to Affordable Financial Services in Nigeria
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed an advisory services agreement with Firstmonie, a subsidiary of First Bank Nigeria Limited, to advance mobile financial services and agent banking in…
- 17 Oct 2013
NIPOST, FirstBank Join Hands on Mobile Payment
First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. through its mobile payment solution FirstMonie has entered into a strategic partnership with the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to ensure enhanced access to convenient…
- 22 Sept 2013
FirstMonie Gets a Makeover for Convenience, Safety
First Bank of Nigeria Limited said it has upgraded its FirstMonie App for customers to experience fast, safe and convenient mobile money service from the bank. According to the bank, with the growing…
- 17 Apr 2018
First Bank, Verve to Promote ePayment for PMS Purchase
First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) has partnered Verve International to further promote adoption of electronic payment system A press release signed by Folake Ani-Mumuney, group head,…
- 18 Jul 2025
FirstBank Celebrates ₦1 Trillion Milestone in Instant Loans via AI-Powered Platforms
FirstBank, a leading financial institution and provider of financial inclusion services in West Africa, announces the achievement of ₦1 trillion in cumulative instant digital loan disbursements. This…
- 29 Jul 2025
FirstBank Retains Top Spot as Nigeria’s Best Bank for ESG @2025 Euromoney Awards
FirstBank, the West African premier financial institution and financial inclusion services provider, has emerged as Nigeria’s Best Bank for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at the…
- 27 Feb 2025
FIRSTHOLDCO: Reinforcing ESG, Sustainability Initiatives As It Rebrands
By A.Ezekiel In a world where approximately 20% of new businesses fail within the first two years, 45% within five years, 65% within ten years, and only 25% make it to 15 years or more (according to…
- 24 Feb 2015
ConnectNigeria Panelists Urge SMEs to Leverage Mobile Money, eCommerce
It is an obvious situation that the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are confronted with several challenges which hamper their growth and the nation’s economic development. Chiefly among the…
- 23 Nov 2014
CBN to Release Guideline on Shared Agent Network
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will next year release a new guideline for Agent Banking (AB) relationships in Nigeria to spark real mobile money business in the country and curb abuses. This is…
- 27 Aug 2014
Experts Extol Glo Xchange as a Boost to Nigerian Economy
Two of Nigeria’s foremost financial analysts have applauded Nigeria’s biggest Mobile Money Agent Network, Glo Xchange, recently launched by Globacom, the country’s national telecom carrier. Glo…
- 21 Aug 2014
Mobile Money Platform Gets Boost with Glo Xchange
Mobile money financial services in the country received boost with the launch of Glo Xchange, a mobile money agent network that is aimed at accelerating the mobile money revolution in the country.…
- 8 Aug 2016
Nigeria Ranks 10th in Digital & Financial Inclusion Report
Nigeria received 72% of the total possible points across all four dimensions in Brookings Institute’s 2016 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report, meaning it ranked 10th out of…
- 11 Feb 2015
NIPOST Partner NIGCOMSAT, Others on Financial Inclusion
Nigerian Post Office (NIPOST) has entered into collaborations with Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), One Network and First Bank of Nigeria to launch projects aimed at promoting financial…
- 26 Jan 2020
Financial Inclusion Agents Groan as SANEF Fails To Achieve Interoperability
Two months after, financial inclusion agents under the network of Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility, SANEF are yet to enjoy interoperability promised them, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek checks…
- 3 Nov 2019
SANEF, CBN Achieve Interoperability at Agents Banking Units This November
Financial inclusion initiative of central bank of Nigeria, CBN, will receive a boost next month as agent banking units under the initiative will begin to enjoy interoperability, Nigeria…
- 21 Feb 2015
NIPOST Targets 40m Nigerians in Financial Inclusion Programme
Mallam Ibrahim Mori Baba, post master general of Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST), has said that the Post will bring over 40 million rural people into the financial market with the establishment of…