Tag: Banks
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Gunmen attack Edo town, raid four banks, kill seven persons
Gunmen attacked four banks and a Police Divisional Headquarters on Thursday as they laid siege on Uromi town in Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four banks with dynamites. The unmasked gunmen killed five persons…
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Afe Babalola to FG: Address dearth of cash in banks
A legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, has called on the Federal Government to address the dearth of cash currently being experienced in the banking sector. Babalola, who is also the Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) made the call in a statement issued on Monday in Ado-Ekiti. According to him, the development can lead…
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Reps order banks to suspend collection of customs duty
The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has asked the Nigeria Customs Service to suspend banks owing the service from further
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4 banks complied with order on freezing Benue govt accounts – AMCON tells court
Four commercial banks in the country have complied with the order of a Federal Hig Court, Abuja, directing the freezing of all bank accounts of Benue Government. The four banks include First City Monument Bank Plc, Standard Charterred Bank Ngeria, Suntrust Bank Nigeria Ltd, and Wema Bank Plc. Counsel to the Asset Management Corporation of…
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Banks, shops, other businesses shut down for days in Ogun State after receiving letters of attacks from robbers
Business activities in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State has been brought to a standstill since Monday following letters of notification of attacks allegedly written
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IPOB sit-at-home: ‘They are invisible voices’; Obiano orders banks, markets in Anambra to operate fully from Monday
Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano has ordered markets, banks, transport business owners, among others to ignore the sit-at-home order and go about their businesses from Monday, September 13. The governor gave the order on Saturday after a meeting with stakeholders and members of the State Security Council. Heads of commercial business operations including markets and…
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Imo govt seals banks for obeying IPOB’s sit-at-home order
Imo State government through its agency, Owerri Capital Development Authority, OCDA, has sealed some banks in Owerri, the state capital. Some of the financial institutions that were sealed by the state government were Access, Polaris, First Bank, Eco Bank and United Bank for Africa. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, told newsmen…
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CBN orders banks to publish names, BVN of Forex defaulters
The Central Bank of Nigeria has instructed banks to publish the names and Bank Verification Numbers BVN of its customers who default on its Forex policy. In a circulate to banks dated Monday, August 30th, the apex bank lamented that it has “received and noted with concern reports of sharp practices by some unscrupulous customers…
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Man hacks into server of Nigeria’s first generation bank, steals N1.87b
Salau Abdulmalik Femi has been arrested for allegedly infiltrating the Flex-Cube Universal Banking System of a first generation bank and scooping as much as N1.87 billion. According to the Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, the suspect specializes in hacking into the server of banks and corporate agencies. Femi, who displayed exemplary mastery of the cyber…