CBN Introduces Funding Opportunities For Anambra Farmers, Traders

Branch comptroller of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Awka, Benedict Mmaduagwu, has advised farmers, artisans, traders and others in Anambra State to embrace the funding opportunities the apex bank has made available for them to grow their businesses.

He stated this during the bank’s two-day fair held at Prof. Dora Akunyili Development Centre, Awka, which began on Tuesday.

At the fair with the theme, “Promoting Financial Stability and Economic Development” Mmaduagwu said the apex bank had opened some funding windows designed to help boost the country’s economy, with targets at promoting small and medium scale enterprises across Nigeria |||READ MORE

COVID-19: Access Bank introduces Dual Transaction Service to enable customers access more funds

As the number of Coronavirus cases rises in Nigeria, Access Bank PLC has positioned itself at the top of the list of donors in a private sector co-operative intervention aimed to assist the Federal Government in the fight against COVID-19. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced this yesterday in a press statement aimed to keep the public abreast of the progress being made to defeat COVID-19 by all key players.

The Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19, which was set up at the onset of the pandemic by Access Bank, in collaboration with The Dangote Foundation, has as of Wednesday, April 1st, 2020, raised N15.32bn.

Earlier in the week, the Group Managing Director, Access Bank PLC, Herbert Wigwe, had assured the public of the Bank’s commitment to, “support the government and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) by providing facilities that can serve as both testing and isolation centres.” |||READ MORE …