Customers to lose banking lifeline over N160bn USSD debt

Millions of banking customers will lose access to the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) of nine banks after telecommunication firms stop supporting these codes because of a N160 billion debt. These telcos, acting under the Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) directive, will cut off the USSD access of these banks by Monday, January 27, 2025, if a chunk of the debt is not cleared. In a notice on Wednesday, the NCC listed the banks and their USSD codes: Fidelity Bank Plc (770), First City Monument Bank (329), Jaiz Bank Pl