Tag: Banks
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Banks, Schools, Petrol Stations In Taraba Shun Nationwide Strike
Despite the picketing of businesses by the enforcement team of organised labour, banks have refused to join the nationwide industrial action in Taraba State. SaharaReporters can report that private schools, filling stations and other businesses in Jalingo, the state capital also shunned the call on workers to down tools. Some labour leaders on Monday visited…
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Schools, banks, others shut as Supreme Court decides Kano governorship election
There is tension in Kano State, especially the capital, as residents await the verdict that will decide their lawful governor today. Schools and financial institutions have announced closed, anticipating violence after the ruling. After his eight months in power, the Supreme Court is set to issue a final judgment that will determine whether or not…
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Banks, customers lament low supply, as cash scarcity worsens
THE prevailing scarcity of cash worsened, weekend, with banks lamenting low cash supply from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Also, customers were worst hit, as many of them could not withdraw cash after visits to many bank branches and ATMs. Vanguard investigation showed that bank customers encountered either empty ATMs in most bank branches…
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Banks, Other Financial Institutions Receive Notice of Shutdown Ahead Labour Strike
The National Union of Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions Employees has issued notice of shutting down operations to all financial institutions owing to the proposed indefinite strike by the organized labour. Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have resolved to shut down the country’s economy from October…
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Banks, Traders reject old naira notes in Ondo
Commercial banks in Akure, the Ondo State capital, have begun rejection of the old notes of N200, N500 and N1000 notes. Many customers who went to the banks to deposit were disappointed when the bank officials refused to collect the old notes. The Nation reports that at the Jais bank, an official advised customers to…