By Elizabeth Adegbesan

Ecobank Nigeria Limited has cancelled charges on USSD transactions. The Managing Director of the bank,  Patrick Akinwuntan disclosed this while speaking at the 4^th National Fintech Conference in Lagos.

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He said: “For us, at Ecobank we will not charge anybody when you use our shortcode *326# to do financial transactions going forward and I challenge my colleagues in the banking industry and telecommunication companies to do the same thing. We should not be having a debate of what excludes Nigerians from what I will say is the financial human rights to participate in the economy”.

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