Bank customers in Nigeria will now be charged directly by their mobile network operators for unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) services, starting today. The development comes two weeks after the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to stop deducting charges for USSD transactions directly from customers’ accounts. Banks had notified customers via email that charges will now …

Some bank users in Abuja have declared they will opt for electronic mail alerts from their banks to cut costs and reduce charges on their accounts. Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday said they would deactivate the Short Message Services transaction alert linked to their accounts. A customer of GTCO, Mrs Dorathy …