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  PRESS STATEMENT NPS Processes Over 26 Million Transactions as First Bank and Fidelity Bank Lead in Volume and Value LAGOS, NIGERIA – August 11, 2026 — The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System  (NIBSS) Plc, Nigeria's foremost payments infrastructure provider, has commenced the rollout of the National Payment Stack (NPS), a sovereign, ISO 20022 compliant digital  infrastructure designed to succeed legacy NIBSS Instant Payment (NIP) system and  modernize Nigeria’s financial ecosystem. Unifying payments, identity, and data onto a  single intelligent rail, the multi-currency architecture bridges transaction processing and payment intelligence while establishing robust cross-border capabilities. Initial operational metrics highlight rapid commercial adoption, with the NPS platform already recording 26.55 million transactions valued at ₦1.4 trillion across 48 participating institutions. First Bank of Nigeria leads the industry in total transaction volume, while Fidel...

 The Asset No Creditor Can Seize In the corridors where money and power meet, integrity is not a soft virtue to be admired from a distance. It is the hardest risk control an institution owns, and the one asset that outlives us...                                          _Eyitayo Quadri Eyitayo Quadri                                              Chief Risk Officer, Union Bank of Nigeria Much of my working life is spent thinking about what can go wrong and/or how it can be done better in a safe way. That is the quiet vocation of a risk officer: to sit in the room where decisions are made, to ask the unpopular question, to imagine the failure before it arrives and to price the danger no one else wants to name. Over the years, that work has taught me a humbling truth. T...

DR. AMOS JOSIAH DANGUT, FSTAN, MNIM, RAS, HEAD OF THE NIGERIA NATIONAL OFFICE OF THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (WAEC), AT A PRESS BRIEFING ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF RESULTS OF THE CB-WASSCE FOR SCHOOL CANDIDATES, AT THE WAEC NATIONAL OFFICE, YABA, LAGOS Expressing his heartfelt joy and overwhelming emotions on the recent successful concluded CB-WASSCE for School Candidates, 2026 which happened to be his third and last as the Head of WAEC Nigeria National Office is released today. Enumerating on his two years and ten months achievement in office, he explained that he was able to add more feathers to the Council’s cap through the help of God. Positioning the Council as the first examining body in Africa and among the first set globally to conduct achievement test using the computer-based mode. From the CB- WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2024 - First Series to the conduct of PC 2, using the same mode and finally extending same to School Candidates’ exam, the story has been amazing,...

Press Release  Evolve or fall behind, industry leaders tell advertising professionals Advertising professionals have been urged to continuously evolve their skills, operating models and creative approaches to remain relevant in an industry being reshaped by artificial intelligence, changing consumer behaviour and emerging technologies. Meksley Nwagboh                                                  Divisional Head, Brand & Communications, Fidelity Bank Plc Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria in Lagos, Meksley Nwagboh, Divisional Head, Brand and Communications, Fidelity Bank Plc, described the transformation of advertising as an opportunity for practitioners to rethink how they create value, serve clients and connect brands with consumers. Addressing participants on the theme, “AdVolution: The End of Advert...

  RE:TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY ONE ALHAJI BALA MOHAMMED. SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT - NNPP. Our attention has been drawn to a so-called press text signed by one Bala Mohammed, an expelled member of our great party in which he made several UNSUBSTANTIATED, reckless and spurious allegations against not only the leadership of our party headed by Dr Boniface Aniebonam but also against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the judiciary.  In the statement, he claimed to be raising an alarm on what seemed to them a dangerous trend that could threaten the very foundation of our democracy, referring to a  body charged with the responsibility of regulating the activities of political parties in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).  It is noteworthy to say that over the past three years, our party, the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP) has been illegally occupied by former members of the Party under the direction of ...

OPINION | LEADERSHIP The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Up Confidence rarely arrives before the opportunity. It arrives afterwards, once we have found the courage to begin. Yetunde B. Oni                                      Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Union Bank of Nigeria There is a conversation I have had, in one form or another, with many talented people over the years. It usually begins with hesitation. Someone capable and clearly gifted explains why they are not quite ready for the role, the platform, or the opportunity in front of them. They are waiting to feel certain. What I have learned, across a career in banking and through my own seasons of doubt, is that certainty is seldom the first thing to arrive. Confidence does not always come before the opportunity. Very often it comes afterwards, once you have accepted the challenge, prepared properly, and allowed th...