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- 9 Dec 2025
CBN Rejigs Financial Inclusion Strategy to Boost Economic Growth
Philip Ikeazor, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Deputy Governor for Financial System Stability, said financial inclusion must remain a core priority in the nation’s economic transformation agenda,…
- 11 Jan 2019
CBN Unveils Strategy to Achieve 80% Financial Inclusion
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has unveiled the revised National Financial Inclusion Strategy designed to ensure that 80 per cent of Nigerian adults have access to financial services by 2020. The…
- 26 May 2022
Heritage Bank Leveraging Technology to Promote Financial Inclusion for Inclusive Growth
In today’s world, making financial services accessible is fast becoming a key area of concern to policymakers for the well-known reason that it has far reaching economic implications. To this end,…
- 10 Jul 2018
NAICOM to Boost Financial Inclusion with NIIDP
National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), on Monday said it has concluded plans to launch the Nigerian Insurance Industry Development Plan (NIIDP) in order to boost financial inclusion. The commission…
- 19 Nov 2024
Tosin Eniolorunda Advocates for Women-Centric Financial Inclusion
For financial inclusion to be sustainable, especially for women, it must no longer be treated as a buzzword, charitable social activity or a checklist to be marked. L-R: Dr. Jameelah…
- 13 Jan 2018
CBN Orders Banks to Open 7.6m New Savings Accounts
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN ) has ordered all Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and Microfinance banks to open 7,608,180 new savings accounts to meet its financial Inclusion target. Financial…
- 16 Feb 2013
CBN Says 65m Nigerians without Financial Services
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that more than 64.8 million Nigerians representing 46.3 per cent of the adult population are without access to financial and…
- 20 Sept 2022
Revving Up Service Delivery with NQR Feature on ALAT
The onboarding of the New Quick Response (NQR) feature unto ALAT, Wema Bank’s digital banking platform, underscores how technology innovations continue to impact service delivery and contributions of…
- 29 Aug 2020
9PSB gets Approval from CBN with *990# to Commence Operations in Nigeria
As bank customers continue to encounter challenges such as regular long queues in the banking halls, consistent network failure, stringent documentations to assess credit facilities, frequent…
- 16 Jun 2014
NDIC Moves to Improve Mobile Banking Services
Umaru Ibrahim, managing director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has called on stakeholders in the mobile money business to seek ways of extending the service to a larger proportion of…
- 4 Jul 2017
Citibank Grants N500m Loans to Accion MFB
Citibank has granted N500m loan to Accion Microfinance Bank as part of efforts to promote the development of the microfinance sector in Nigeria. Lola Oyeka, bank’s Country Public Affairs Officer for…