Financial Inclusion

In the run-up to the 60th anniversary of Nigerian Independence on October 1st, Worldremit, a digital payments platform, is offering a helping hand to the approximately 215,000 Nigerians…

Nigeria’s Central Bank (CBN) is planning to move financial inclusion gender gap from 8.5 percent (based on 2018 data) to no gender gap in 2024. The Bank disclosed this in the Framework…

Jadesola Opawumi is the Co-founder/ceo of Spredda, an online Marketplace and Payqart, a financial technology company focused on providing consumer financing at merchants’ checkout both…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently gave an official node to telecommunication operators’ push to offer mobile money services in Nigeria through the final approval for three firms to…

With 28.41 percent GDP growth in the second quarter of 2020, Nigeria’s financial institutions under the Financial and Insurance sector topped the gainers’ chart as it outshined 45 others to…

Automated Teller Machine ( ATM) must evolve amid rapid changes in the economy and rise of digital payment alternatives to meet the evolving needs of current and future customers, according…

Access to basic financial services is widely considered a critical building block in reducing poverty and promoting economic growth. The importance of financial inclusion especially for a…

From 1892 when Nigeria’s first commercial bank was established in Lagos, the banking business in Africa’s largest economy has evolved to a point where bank customers can now complete a…

Huawei, a multinational technology company recently announced the launch of a new digital payment cloud solution to help digital payment service operators to build super app centered payment…

The CBN’s efforts towards providing millions of Nigerians with greater access to formal financial services have received an unexpected boost from COVID-19 and the mitigation measures…