Access Bank Reward Customers with N600m in DiamondXtra Season 13 Promo

 

Access Bank Plc on Thursday unveiled DiamondXtra Season 13 savings promo to reward loyal customers with N600 million.

The bank’s Executive Director, Retail Banking, Mr Victor Etuokwu, said at the launch in Lagos that the initiative was instituted to enhance savings culture and drive the Federal Government’s financial inclusion initiative.

Etuokwu said the bank had been rewarding and changing lives of customers in the past 12 years.

“The DiamondXtra reward scheme is one of the ways the bank creates value and meets the needs of its loyal customers.

“With the launch of this new season, the reward scheme has been revitalised and reloaded to create winners every day,” said Etuokwu.

According to him, apart from encouraging customers to save their money, gaining interest, DiamondXtra also rewards them with prizes like Salary 4 Life, Business grants, education grants and among others.

“We encourage all Nigerians to sign up to DiamondXtra by Access bank, and start saving to win extraordinary prizes every day in this reloaded season as DiamondXtra is truly the most rewarding way to save,” Etuokwu said.

Also speaking , Mr Robert Giles, Senior Banking Advisor, Retail, Access Bank, said Season 13 was designed by over 600,000 customers who were surveyed on the changes they wanted to see.

Giles said DiamondXtra, introduced in July 2008, had impacted the lives of its loyal customers.

He said the bank had shared over N5 billion of prize money through daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly draws.

“We have given out education grants, business grants and Salary for life.

“The launch of DiamondXtra Season 13 is our best yet. And that’s because it is yours. From the very beginning, DiamondXtra was designed by our customers themselves,” Giles explained.

He said the customers told the bank that the return on savings was small, yet the reason to save was to transform and improve lives.

“Our customers said they want to keep Salary for life, Business Grant and Free Rent. They also told us to add lots of smaller prizes so everybody has a chance to win.

And finally they asked us to bring it closer home, and that’s why this year we are taking DiamondXtra into every neighbourhood so that people can see the difference and share with friends,” Giles said.

Mrs Adaeze Umeh, Group Head, Consumer Banking, Access Bank, said over 2.5 million customers signed up to DiamondXtra account, and that the figure kept increasing on yearly basis.

“For season 13, even our women will be greatly represented in every quarlerly draw.

“We will be having about 10 of our women winning of which one person will have an opportunity of getting a shopping allowance of N100,000 for the next 12 months and nine others will get N300,000 each,” she said.

According to her, 14 people will win about N1 million each to pay their rents.

“The one customers advocated for is the opportunity to get the business grant and to make it closer to home.

“We have our clusters across all our 600 branches, so all the associations, markets, group of journalists can actually come together open DiamondXtra with minimum of N5,000 and participate in the draw,” Umeh said.

She added that new or existing customers could either open a DiamondXtra account in any of Access Bank branches across the country or fund their account with a minimum of N5,000 which will qualify them for the draw.

Miracle money: Prove angels give money without people working for it -Apostle Johnson Suleman

Nigerian man, Yemisi Shillon, Friday challenged the Senior Pastor and General Overseer, Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, to prove in the law court that angels give wealth without one working for it.

 

Suleman had argued that Miracle money exists.

 

Reacting, a YouTuber, Israel Balogun, analysed and condemned a video from two of the programmes of the church, one in Atlanta, USA, titled, ‘Impact 2021’ which was held in July and a June 2021 programme, Holy Ghost Conference 2021 held in Auchi, Edo State Nigeria, tagged, ‘Harvest of Miracle Money’, where Suleman allegedly performed the miracle.

 

Miffed with Balogun’s submission, Suleman averred: “If you talk against miracle money, you are insulting God. That I will now arrange with people to pay money into their account and claim that it is miracle money? What money I’m I looking for? What name am I looking for? And you think that it is possible in the US with all the intelligence?”

 Nigerians have reacted to hypothesis that money miracle exists. According to Pastor Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, condemned Balogun’s attack on the man of God, and explained what miracle money truly means, while drawing instances from the Bible. 

 

He explained that what the man was referring to as miracle money was actually magic money and not miracle money.

 

On his own part, the founder and senior prophet of Christ MercyLand Deliverance Ministry, Warri Delta State, billionaire Prophet, Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin has insisted that there is miracle money across churches in the country.

 

Fufeyin said even Jesus performed wonder of miracle money by locating money in the mouth of a fish to settle taxes.

Dabiri-Erewa, Others For Nigeria Project 40/40 Launch

 

Concerned Nigerians abroad under the aegis of the Society of Young Nigerians in Diaspora for International Collaboration and Transnational Engagement led by its Romanian based convener, Adeniyi Sanusi, will unveil the NGA Diaspora Project 40/40 Simulcast/Hybrid Diaspora Global Conference on Saturday October 2 at the CMD, Lagos – Nigeria.

Dignitaries confirmed as speakers were Dr. Andrew S. Nevin, Ph.D. (Partner & Chief Economist) PwC Nigeria; Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, MD/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) - TBC; Mr. Kingsley Aikins, the CEO of The Networking Institute, Ireland; Mr. Kabir Mohammed, Director Learning & Development at the Centre for Management Development (CMD) and Mr. Abiodun Odunuga, the Vice President of Friends of Nigeria (FON, France). 

Concurrently, the event will be streamed live in Austria, Belgium/Luxemburg chapters of Nigeria In Diaspora Organization Europe (NIDOE).

It is aimed at leveraging on the symbolism of the number 40 to inspire a new narrative for Nigerians. NGA Diaspora Project 40/40 is registered under the Trademark registry of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Trade & Investment. 

Ajibola Abayomi, the President of the Journalists International Forum for Migration (JIFORM) who doubles as the Media Adviser of project in a statement said the idea was conceived to further charge the Nigerians in Diaspora on the responsibilities of participating in the development agenda of the nation irrespective of their base. 

He captured the objectives of the project thus: “The goals of this project is to enable Nigerians in diaspora tell their stories; celebrate their good side manifesting in remittances, investments, brain regain and sharing best practices learnt abroad; recognize the bold steps taken by them to improve Nigeria through provision of infrastructures and support on investments and bridge the existing gap between the diasporas and fellow citizens at home.

"The conference is being powered by the Society of Young Nigerians in Diaspora for International Collaboration and Transnational Engagement in collaboration with the Diaspora Innovation Institute, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State; JIFORM; NIDOE chapters in Belgium/Luxembourg , Sweden and  Greece. 

NGA Diaspora Project 40/40 maiden edition will be held on Saturday, October 2, 2021, at 10 am West Africa Time (WAT), and it will feature among others, 40 diaspora stories and key lessons learned, a diaspora epoch autobiography book launch by one of the founding members of NIDOE Austria, Engr. Oluyemi Ogundele.

The book title is 'My Diaspora Footprints' coupled with a diaspora dedicated movie launch by Ms. Maria Ohilebo, the chairperson of NIDOE-Greece; Movie title is 'Attractive Illusion', citation of 40 stories on the Diasporas and honouring of those that retain their Nigerian nationality despite having legal resident permit, those making notable impacts abroad and connecting home through investments, charities, empowerment, policies, etc. and others. 

The statement further reads in parts: “The number forty (40) marks a moment of transition, transformation and transcendence. It connotes newness, preparation, self-examination and growth. It is a significant number that shouldn't be taken for granted. 

"As signified by the project logo; the upper 40 represents 40 years of the "Nigerian Emigration Trends between 1981 - 2021. The project seeks to highlight the major wave of emigration history of the Nigerian diaspora specifically narrowing it down from 1981 till 2021.

 “The project will also lay out the path way to regular migration and the right mind-set coupled with expected responsibilities of the Diasporas to the motherland."Other highlights will include sharing of our manifestoes and the book on the 40 Diasporas put together as the blueprint for the new generation of intending migrants". Visit our website for more details and to register: https://ngadiasporaproject4040.com/ 

E-Signed 

Ajibola Abayomi 

Media Adviser, 

NGA Diaspora Project 40/40

FIRSTBANK SPONSORS THE 5TH EDITION OF THE CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO GOLF TOURNAMENT

 

First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its sponsorship of the 5th edition of the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo golf tournament, organized by the Abeokuta golf club. The competition, which is scheduled to hold on Saturday, 14th August 2021 will have Chief Obasanjo perform the ceremonial Tee-off to the glamour of the 150 golfers participating from across Nigeria. 

 

Speaking on the competition, Kola Adeneye, the Captain of the Abeokuta golf club, said; “Abeokuta golf club is putting up this tournament, fully sponsored by First Bank of Nigeria Limited to celebrate Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, whom we all know to be an icon, a patriotic Nigerian and an entrepreneur. He is worthy to be celebrated and it’s not only when somebody dies that you celebrate him.

 

“So, Abeokuta golf club has put this tournament together to celebrate him and this is the fifth edition and we want to sincerely thank FirstBank for the support… It’s going to be a wonderful experience, a nice outing for golfers all over Nigeria to come and celebrate Baba Olusegun Obasanjo”, the captain emphasised.

 

Highlighting the Bank’s contribution to sports development in Nigeria, Mr. Tunde Owolabi, FirstBank’s Group Executive, Retail Banking (Lagos & West) said “we are delighted to join The Abeokuta Golf Club to honour Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for the indelible roles he has played to the socio-economic and political development of the country. The Bank’s influence in the development of sports in Nigeria is under its First@Sport initiative.

 

“In over a century, FirstBank has sponsored various sporting events known as its legacy sport. These events include the Georgian Cup of Kaduna Polo Club, for over 100 years; the Dala Tennis Hard Court in Kano Club for over 30 years; the FirstBank Lagos Amateur Open Golf Championship in Ikoyi Club which will be in its 60th year this November and the Obasanjo Pro-Amateur tournament of Abeokuta Club now in its 5th year”, he concluded.

 

About FirstBank

 

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is the premier Bank in West Africa and the leading financial inclusion services provider in Nigeria for over 127 years.

 

With over 750 business locations and over 120,000 Banking Agents spread across 99% of the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria, FirstBank provides a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services to serve its over 30 million customers. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank in the Republic of Congo, Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea, Sierra-Leone and Senegal, as well as a Representative Office in Beijing.

 

The Bank has been handy at promoting digital payment in the country and has issued over 10million cards, the first bank to achieve such a milestone in the country. FirstBank’s cashless transaction drive extends to having more than 12million people on its USSD Quick Banking service through the nationally renowned *894# Banking code and over 4.5 million people on FirstMobile platform.

 

Since its establishment in 1894, FirstBank has consistently built relationships with customers focusing on the fundamentals of good corporate governance, strong liquidity, optimised risk management and leadership. Over the years, the Bank has led the financing of private investment in infrastructure development in the Nigerian economy by playing key roles in the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation schemes. With its global reach, FirstBank provides prospective investors wishing to explore the vast business opportunities that are available in Nigeria, an internationally competitive world-class brand and a credible financial partner. 

 

FirstBank has been named “Most Valuable Bank Brand in Nigeria” six times in a row (2011 – 2016) by the globally renowned “The Banker Magazine” of the Financial Times Group; “Best Retail Bank in Nigeria” for seven consecutive years (2011 – 2017) by the Asian Banker International Excellence in Retail Financial Services Awards and “Best Bank in Nigeria” by Global Finance for 15 years. Our brand purpose is always to put customers, partners and stakeholders at the heart of our business, even as we standardise customer experience and excellence in financial solutions across sub-Saharan Africa, in consonance with our brand vision “To be the partner of the first choice in building your future”.

 

Our brand promise is always to deliver the ultimate “gold standard” of value and excellence. This commitment is anchored on our inherent values of passion, partnership and people, to position You First in every respect.

 

Prophet Iginla Pens Open Letter To President Edgar Lungu

The shepherd in Charge of Champions Royal Assembly, Prophet Joshua Iginla has penned an open letter to president Edgar Lungu.

Iginla warned him to take the defeat in good faith and learn lessons from the just concluded presidential election:

your Excellency,

President Edgar Lungu,

I write this open letter to you as a prophet of God and an authority who has his degree in Political science and Masters In international law and diplomacy that you should  accept the outcome of this election in good faith. The people have spoken that they want wind of change as God has ordained it and any attempt to thwart that will lead to anarchy and history will not be kind to you . 

It is obvious you have failed to fulfill  your electoral promises to Zambians and this has led to socio-economic meltdown in the country. 

There are several factors behind Your unpopularity. One is the high cost of living, thanks to a faltering economy. According to the latest data on chronic poverty in Zambia from the Overseas Development Institute, the number of adults who cannot afford to have more than one meal a day has risen to 40% under your rule.

A second is the high levels of income inequality. Despite being a lower middle-income country, latest World Bank records show that nearly 60% of Zambia’s 18.8 million people earn below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day (compared to 41% across Sub-Saharan Africa). While poverty is endemic, several PF leaders have continued to accumulate and display obscene or grotesque wealth in ways that have alienated your  government from many Zambians.

The third is the country’s staggering debt, which, alongside your administration’s demonstrated lack of commitment to fixing its debt crisis through better fiscal management, has undermined the government’s capacity to improve service delivery, invest in social sectors, and reduce high unemployment. When the PF won power in September 2011, Zambia’s external debt stood at $1.9 billion. By December 2020, it had risen to $12.74 billion.

 The lack of service delivery has been felt most notably in the health sector, where the effects of the coronavirus pandemic have exacerbated the crisis.

The fourth is the violent behaviour of the PF cadres who control the markets and bus stations. Your reluctance to stop their activities has emboldened their conduct, undermined the authority of the police, and left the public greatly exposed.

The fifth is the lack of policy consistency including in the crucial mining industry, Zambia’s major export earner. In addition to undermining revenue collection, this policy instability has raised significant consternation among foreign investors. Economically, this should be a good period for Zambia with strong commodity prices, but the government has interfered with mining in a very erratic way, forcing mines to submit to nationalisation.

Added to this is the closing democratic space, the deteriorating state of the human rights situation in the country,  the general breakdown in the rule of law, and the absence of leadership on key issues such as grand corruption in government, the so-called “gassing” incidents in early-2020, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and deepening ethnic divisions that have characterised the past five years.

Personally, I have warned you several times to listen to the voice of God and also revealed to you that you are surrounded by Judases. But you ignored me.

Rather, you backlisted me and barred me from entering Zambia again. 

Of a truth, president Lungu, you tried your best in certain areas while governing the affairs of Zambia because your enthronement was an act of God. However, you should learn from this present predicament that it’s not good to forget your source or fight the mouthpiece of God whom God used to lift you up simply because he told you the truth from the throne of Grace. 

Also, another lessons learnt is that you should be wary of yes men who hails you just to be in your good book but failed to give you the right information about happenings in the country. They only shout hallelujah before you just to deceive you and Massage  your ego.  

My candid warning to you is that you should accept the outcome of this election in good faith as I have warned you prophetically about the will of God for you concerning this election. Don’t fight HH, rather congratulate him and focus on your health. I beseech you work on your health.

ONLY THE CHURCH HAS SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT CRISIS IN NIGERIA … Bishop Bankole Jefferson

...solution to nigeria's current problems is with us,clergy declared..

Sequel to the current crisis ravaging in the country, a clergyman and the General Overseer of Mercy Tabernacle, Bishop Bankole Jefferson, has declared that it is only the church that has a solution power to the crisis in the country. Speaking at the mid-week service of the church on Wednesday, the man of God said the various agitations by different ethnic groups are as a result of the neglect by the government of the day.

The clergy said government needs to know the root cause of their agitations and also provide solutions to such act. Bishop Bankole Jefferson said the people are not being carried along by their representatives. He said, though, solution is not in their hands but from God. (Matthew 24:21)

In His message, Bishop Bankole Jefferson said that ethnic division is not the solution to the problem of Nigeria. He went further to say that why some people are aggrieved in the Nation is because they are not being adequately catered for and that national development is not equally distributed. He cited an example of the early church in Acts 6:1 of how some people in the church felt cheated and neglected as the church began to expand and that led to the division among them. He related this to the agitation of the BIAFRAN people.

Bishop Jefferson also remarked that the government should monitor how the federal government allocation is being shared across the states to further avert any unforeseen crisis in the country. He said he traveled to Kwara state through Kogi State. He described the road as nothing to write home about in a state that has Government. He described it as a death trap. He said without God’s intervention, the country will be moving from bad to worse.

“In any atmosphere where a group of people feel neglected, there will be complaints”. He further stated that the solution is for everyone to be carried along and not for the Nation to be divided.

“My counsel to this present government is to wake up and do the needful. Almost getting to four years now, we are yet to see any major development in the area of health, infrastructure, Security, employment and youth empowerment “.

The Clergyman said that salvation will come from the church because it is only the Kingdom of God that will know peace and see prosperity; every other Kingdom will collapse but God’s Kingdom will reign forever and the only way to be saved from this destruction is to practice the principles of God’s Kingdom, He concluded

I AM MANDATED TO FEED ONE MILLION SOULS ACROSS THE GLOBE…. Bishop Bankole Jefferson

…..Begins Outreach Program ‘’OCTOBER FOR JESUS’’.

….Daddy is a Man of GOD not a Businessman. Members cried out against scam allegation

THE General Overseer and Senior Pastor of Mercyland Tabernacle church situated at the heart of ogba oke ira Lagos Nigeria. Bishop Bankole Jefferson has explained in details why he has continue to bring succumb to the needy with various donations of food material, this respectable man of God said part of the responsibility the almighty God gave him when he was called was to always put food on the table of the poor, he said his assignment is to continually to feed one million souls across the globe, the Senior Pastor also explain further that God has also given him that wisdom to also raise men in the same direction so that people will be free from the bondage of poverty, Bishop Bankole Jefferson said deliverance is beyond prayers alone but what comes of that person after he or she might have been delivered, he said without food such deliverance might witness backslide again, he said his foundation and church has make it a mandatory order that every month they must reach out to the less privileged in the society.

While speaking of the program ‘’OCTOBER FOR JESUS’’ the man of God said It is an annual programme of intensive evangelism outreach were every member of the church are trained and equipped to do evangelism With soul aim of winning more people to the kingdom of God thereby depopulating the kingdom of darkness 

Bishop Jefferson said The key highlight of this year is to show Random KINDNESS to people around the neighborhoods especially the widow orphans less privileged and the poor in general. He said thousands of people benefitted in the previous outreach as this year’s program as recorded different testimonies even as the programs continues

Reacting to the recent stories circulated on the internet about the man of God involvement in an oil deal one of the member of the church who will not like his name mention said bishop bankole Jefferson is a true man of God and never a businessman, he said the story circulated was aimed as tarnishing the reputable image of the man of God, he stated further that despite the fact that the person involved in that business is a member of their church daddy has bishop Jefferson is fondly called has nothing to do with  the alleged oil scam fraud,

he concluded that no man can pull God ordain servant down in as much that his hand is clean, why will they be mentioning daddy name when Solomon that did that business was not mentioned in the story ,is it because daddy is popular, the devil is a liar he concluded,

it will be recalled that bishop bankole Jefferson was among the senior pastor ordained by Bishop David Oyedepo that brought winners chapel to lagos he is a loyal son of Bishop oyedepo, when he started is owe church close to 20yeas now it was Bishop Oyedepo that commissioned Mercyland Tabernacles ogba Lagos and since then God has continue to use him in different ways,