To promote entrepreneurial development and skill
acquisition in Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. through its mobile payment
solution FirstMonie has successfully empowered 3,000 youths of the Osun Youth
Empowerment Scheme (OYES) as FirstMonie agents. The partnership planned as one of the initiatives for
curbing unemployment and youth insurgency across the state will amply equip
both past and present cadets with sound business acumen, customer service
skills and financial management. As a FirstMonie agent, the OYES cadets will
be required to educate customers on the steps required to log on to the
FirstMonie platform, ensures business location remains open for rendering of
Firstmonie Services during normal business hours on all business days as well
as maintain sufficient cash and e-money float balances for customers enquiries
and need.
With the Firstmonie service, which operates a simplified process that
requires customer name and mobile telephone number, agents can assist
subscribers to perform mobile money account opening, cash deposits and
withdrawals, and bills payments among others from their mobile phones.
According to the Head, Marketing & Corporate
Communications, FirstBank, Mrs. Folake Ani-Mumuney, with the OYES and
FirstMonie partnership, we aim to drive financial inclusion as well as wealth
creation by providing opportunities for youths of Osun State to serve as
merchants and agents instrumental to deepening financial inclusion campaign
through agency banking while leveraging on the FirstBank brand and wide network
of branches through its mobile money solution, FirstMonie. FirstBank aims to leverage the widely
accepted mobile technology to serve Nigerians with the most innovative
financial services by providing banking services to the large segment of the
unbanked . “FirstMonie is available to the general public and is initiated by
dialing *894# on MTN, Airtel, Glo and Etisalat lines or visiting
https://www.firstmonie.com/iweb.and following the prompts,” she added.
It would be recalled that the Bank upgraded its FirstMonie
App to facilitate faster access to the Firstmonie account directly from
subscribers’ handheld devices. The App was upgraded to include mobile banking
features that will enable FirstBank account holders access and transact
directly from their accounts. FirstMonie app can be downloaded on to various
mobile devices include iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and all Java enabled
phones.
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