There was pandemonium at a First City Monument Bank (FCMB) branch in Lagos on Monday after a man showing COVID-19 symptoms collapsed causing customers to flee the scene. According to reports, the incident occurred at the Onipanu branch of the bank where many customers were reported to have gathered for various transactions. The man was reported to have suddenly developed difficulty in breathing while trying to ...

FirstBank, Nigeria’s leading financial institution and Africa’s Bank of Choice has expressed its appreciation to the public – especially its customers – for their continued patronage of its services during the COVID 19 lockdown, whilst assuring the public that stringent measures have been implemented to ensure its branches and locations across the country operate in line with the health and ...

Nigeria, on Sunday night recorded 170 new cases of Coronavirus. According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, (NCDC), Lagos State recorded  39 cases, Kano State had 29 cases, Ogun State had 24 cases, Bauchi State had 18 cases and Kaduna state recorded 15 cases. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Sokoto State recorded 12 cases each, ...

The Lagos State government led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that some offices and businesses would remain closed despite the gradual easing of the COVID-19 lockdown in the state which begins from Monday, May 4, 2020. According to the governor: “It is a gradual and controlled easing of the lockdown. We will continue to monitor the public health situation; the economic impact of ...

…Markets to open for three days weekly in alternation …Governor releases numbers for whistleblowers to report erring companies    The five-week lockdown imposed by the Federal Government on Lagos State and two other states to combat Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) will be eased on Monday (tomorrow), but Lagos State Government has asked all its civil servants not to resume for work ...

The bankers committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria has agreed that plans to lay off staff would be suspended. This was announced in a statement signed by Isaac Okorafor, CBN director of corporate communications, and made available to us on Sunday. Okorafor said: “A special meeting of the Bankers’ Committee was convened on May 2, 2020, to further review the implications of the COVID-19 ...

The Kano State government has said President Muhammadu Buhari gave consent to ease the lockdown imposed due to coronavirus. The State Ministry of Health made this known on its Twitter page on Saturday. Recall that reports emerged online that Governor Ganduje came under attack for relaxing the lockdown order in the state despite a record of 92 new cases. The Governor had ...

The governor made the announcement at a press briefing organised by the Kano State Government State Taskforce on COVID-19, held at the government house on Saturday. He explained that the government has relaxed the lockdown by six hours each day from 10 am to 4 pm on Mondays and Thursdays. He added that all the major markets in the state ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 238 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 2170. The NCDC made this known via its Twitter handle on Friday. It also said that 92 of the new infections were recorded in Kano. The breakdown: 238 new ...

As the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus pandemic) takes an intense twist, with its prevalent negative effect on individuals, households, businesses and health systems, leading financial services provider, First City Monument Bank (FCMB), is stepping up the tempo of its interventions through various humanitarian gestures.  As a caring and responsive Bank, FCMB has ensured the stability of its robust digital channels thereby enabling ...