Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion

PAL Pension trains over 1500 UNN students on Financial Literacy

BusinessDay Apr 15, 2019

No fewer than 1500 students from University of Nigeria Nsukka participated at the Financial Literacy Training organised by PAL Pension...

Financial Inclusion

NDIC Moves To Enhance Financial Literacy Among Nigerians

BusinessDay Apr 04, 2019

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) said it will redouble efforts at enhancing financial literacy to equip more Nigerians with the...

Financial Inclusion

‘PSBs will complement banks in driving financial inclusion’

Okafor Endurance Apr 03, 2019

Uche Uzoebo is the Head, Agency & Merchant Services, and Financial Inclusion at Diamond Bank. In this interview with BusinessDay’s...

Financial Inclusion

Paga Celebrates 10 Years Of Making Life Possible

BusinessDay Apr 02, 2019

Nigeria’s leading mobile money company, Paga, clocks 10 years in business since being founded in 2009, and officially opening its...

Financial Inclusion

CBN upbeat about 2020 financial inclusion targets, takes campaign to schools

Cynthia Egboboh Mar 28, 2019

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) hopes to achieve its 2020 financial inclusion target of getting at least 80 percent...

Financial Inclusion

Financial inclusion remains main investment sector in Africa - Partech

Okafor Endurance Mar 27, 2019

Investors’ attractiveness for the financial inclusion sector is evident in the 2018 annual report on the financing of African start-ups...

Financial Inclusion

How credit loans are driving financial inclusion

Okafor Endurance Mar 20, 2019

The large informal segments at the bottom pyramid of the Nigeria economy are being attracted into the financial cycle through...

Financial Inclusion

UBA reports N400million donations for financial inclusion in 2018

David Ibidapo Mar 20, 2019

The United bank for Africa (UBA) showed its commitment to deepening financial inclusion in Nigeria with a N400 million donation....

Financial Inclusion

EFInA builds capacity of financial services stakeholders on Agent Networks deployment

Anuoluwapo Adeseun Mar 14, 2019

The more people are included, the more they have access to financial services that will ultimately improve their leaving conditions...

Financial Inclusion

UN to improve Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa with FITA

Anthony Nlebem Mar 13, 2019

The Universal Postal Union (UPU), an agency of the United Nations, has officially rolled out a digital financial service project...

Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion, FinTech and Sustainable Development Goals

Anthony Nlebem Mar 08, 2019

The Open Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established that the main issue that the United Nations (UN)...

Financial Inclusion

CBN to set up a financial inclusion Trust Fund to achieve 80% target

Okafor Endurance Mar 06, 2019

With less than two years to meet its 80 percent financial inclusion target, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has...

Financial Inclusion

FG Boosts Financial Inclusion With TraderMoni

BusinessDay Mar 04, 2019

With over 23 million Nigerians financially excluded, the introduction of TraderMoni by the Federal Government in conjunction with Bank of...

Financial Inclusion

Nigeria lags as mobile-money accounts now surpass bank accounts in Africa

Okafor Endurance Feb 27, 2019

While mobile money is spurring financial inclusion in Africa as against the conventional bank accounts, Nigeria seems to be left behind as Africa’s largest...

Financial Inclusion

‘The largest pool of farmers that produce the food we eat are the poorest and most financially excluded communities’

Okafor Endurance Feb 20, 2019

Ayodeji Balogun is the country manager for AFEX Commodities Exchange Limited and the regional director of Africa Exchange Holdings. In...