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- 30 Apr 2025
Gtb Increases SMS Transaction Alert Fee Today
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has announced an increase in its SMS transaction alert fee from ₦4 to ₦6 per message, effective May 1, 2025. The bank cited a recent rise in telecommunication tariffs by…
- 20 Dec 2014
NIMC Commences SMS Alerts, Issuance of e-ID Card
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has again pleaded with Nigerians for more patience with the registration and issuance of the new e-ID Card, even as it commences SMS alerts…
- 15 May 2025
FirstBank Hikes SMS Alert Fee from N4 to N6
FirstBank of Nigeria has announced an upward review of its transaction alert fee, raising the charge from N4 to N6 per SMS. In a customer notice, the bank attributed the increase to the recent hike…
- 21 Feb 2017
5 Interesting Benefits of Bank SMS Alert
There is no bank that doesn't provide bank alert services to their customers. It is one of the ways they have devised to make money. While some customers have activated the alert, others haven't…
- 11 May 2025
Bank customers to ditch SMS alerts for email amid rising charges
Some bank users in Abuja have declared they will opt for electronic mail alerts from their banks to cut costs and reduce charges on their accounts. Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of…
- 23 Oct 2025
Smartcash Redefines Digital Banking with Zero-Charges on Transfers, Bills, and SMS Alerts
Smartcash Payment Service Bank (Smartcash PSB), a subsidiary of Airtel Nigeria, has announced Zero-Charges , a total removal of transaction fees across all interbank transfers, bill payments, and SMS…
- 17 May 2017
CBN Caps Transaction Alert Fees to N4 per SMS
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has capped the fees charged by the banks on transaction alerts to N4 per SMS. The apex bank also restricted alerts to customer-induced transactions only. The CBN…
- 30 Jan 2022
NCC Alerts on New SMS-Based Malware
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has again alerted telecommunication users of a new high-risk, critical and Short Messaging Service-based malware, TangleBot, infecting Android mobile devices…
- 11 May 2009
Fortis MFB Alerts Customers with Clickatell SMS Receipts™
Clickatell, messaging provider for financial services, has been selected by Fortis Microfinance Bank to provide SMS Receipts™ to thousands of retail banking customers throughout Nigeria.…
- 30 Jan 2022
NCC Alerts Nigerians on TangleBot, New SMS-based Android Malware Unleashed by Cybercriminals
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has warned the general public against a new high-risk, critical short message service–based malware, TangleBot, infecting Android mobile devices. Dr.…
- 20 Oct 2023
How to Detect Fake Credit and Debit Alert
A phony bank alert fraud can have serious financial and emotional consequences, according to a report by howng.com, a veritable online news platform. Victims may suffer feelings of guilt, rage, and…
- 22 Jun 2009
Banks Rake in N14m Daily from Transaction Alerts
Banks in Nigeria have spotted the money spinner in the transactions alert and are capitalizing on the growing interest by charging for alerts on transactions, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek…
- 23 Aug 2010
Mobile Banking to Generate 90BnText Messages by 2015- Research
A new study by Juniper Research has found that new types of SMS mobile banking alerts will help to treble the volume of mobile banking messages to almost 90 billion per annum by 2015, equating to one…
- 22 Feb 2010
Satelite Microfinance Bank Deploys Clickatell SMS
Clickatell has announced that it is providing in-country SMS alert services to Satelite Microfinance Bank in collaboration with Neptune Software Plc. Satelite’s customers now receive real-time,…
- 6 May 2021
Banks’ Suffocating Charges on Customers
By Victoria Ngozi Ikeano SIR : It is no exaggeration to say that bank customers are about the most taxed group in Nigeria as they suffer not just double or treble taxation, but more than quadruple…
- 19 Sept 2025
Airtel AI Blocks 84 Percent of Spam SMS in Nigeria
Nigeria has recorded an 84 Percent decline in spam SMS after Airtel Africa deployed its Artificial Intelligence-powered spam detection tool, Spam Alert. According to Airtel, the free service has…
- 27 Oct 2025
Erosion of Trust: How Hidden Charges, Downtime Are Bankrupting Confidence in Nigerian Banks
By Blaise Udunze In a society where trust is the lifeblood of finance, Nigeria’s banking sector seems to be bleeding credibility at an alarming rate. The relationship between banks and their…
- 6 Feb 2012
EcoBank Begins Makeover of Oceanic Bank
Ecobank Nigeria Plc, the new owners of Oceanic Bank Plc has begun a makeover of all branches of Oceanic Bank in preparation for the full integration of their new purchase into Ecobank family, Nigeria…
- 19 Oct 2009
Customers Unaware of Banker’s Guide, Pay hidden Charges
Bank customers who are unaware or choose to subjectively ignore the banker’s guide which stipulates that any charge outside the guide is against the law pay some “hidden” charges,…
- 4 Oct 2017
Mobile App to Tackle Crime, Insecurity Debuts in Nigeria
A new mobile app that will allegedly help in tackling the wave of crime in Nigeria has been released. Developed in the United Kingdom, the application, Code9Help is designed to guarantee personal…
- 2 Apr 2014
Glo Demonstrates 10 New Innovative Services
Globacom, yesterday organized a live demonstration of over ten brand new products and services for the media. The demonstration covers a broad spectrum of the operator’s offerings aimed at improving…
- 11 Jan 2010
Prosellers Technology Can Check Kidnapping with Technology-- Ologunleko
Adeniyi Ologunleko is the managing director of Prosellers, West Africa, frontline information and communications technology solutions provider. He started his career as a sales representative…
- 11 Jan 2010
Prosellers Technology Can Check Kidnapping with Technology-- Ologunleko
Adeniyi Ologunleko is the managing director of Prosellers, West Africa, frontline information and communications technology solutions provider. He started his career as a sales representative…
- 9 Feb 2018
Banks Battle Fraudsters over Fake Alerts
Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in the country are stepping up measures to check the activities of fraudsters who defraud some Nigerians through fake bank alerts scam. According to findings by New…
- 20 Apr 2022
Great Heights Academy Commissions Security Devices
Great Heights Academy, an Islamic girls’ school based in Abuja, in collaboration with Information and Communication Technology giant, New Horizons has again recorded a technological milestone. The…
- 1 Jun 2009
UBA Unveils Nigeria’s First Cash Deposit ATMs
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has taken the wrapper off the first intelligent cash deposit Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in the country. Customers can now make cash lodgements to their accounts…
- 23 Feb 2009
Online Vehicle Insurance Initiative Offers Convenience-Kadri
Deji Kadri, chief executive of ZeeSoft, has a passionate believe in the empowerment and development of local IT talent. With more than a decade experience spanning various areas of IT, Kadri has…
- 24 Jan 2015
Bank Insiders Help Fraudsters Steal Billions
Despite multiple security checks in banks, incidents of fraud are on the increase, prompting the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to raise alarm, blaming it on insiders. A report by Weekly Trust takes a…
- 27 Jan 2015
Somalia’s 1stIslamic Bank Now Live with iMAL Islamic Core Banking System
Premier Bank in Somalia has formally announced that it has successfully gone live with Path Solutions’ iMAL Islamic Banking & Investment System on December last year. The implementation of the…
- 20 Aug 2020
NCDC Launches Digital Platform for COVID-19 Results
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has launched a digital platform to ensure speedy delivery of COVID-19 results in the Federal Capital Territory. Mrs Elsie Ilori, head of Department,…