Ecobank lights up campuses with drive for financial inclusion

THOUSANDS of students across various tertiary institutions in the country have signed up on the Ecobank mobile app following the ‘Ecobank Xpress Campus Storm’ campaign that is currently visiting universities and polytechnic campuses across the country.

The ‘Ecobank Xpress Campus Storm’ which flagged off in May has since visited the University of Lagos, Yaba College of Technology, University of  Benin, and is currently in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Speaking on successes recorded so far, Ikechukwu Kalu, Head, Consumer Marketing, said the concept of the campus storm is part of a holistic youth engagement campaign across Nigeria. He explained that the initiative, a youth engagement programme in tertiary institutions across Nigeria, is part of efforts to deepen financial inclusion by banking the youth, which also aligns with the bank’s strategy to make banking available to the hitherto unbanked and underbanked in support of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s financial inclusion drive.

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“The campus storm avails students of tertiary institutions the opportunity to open the Ecobank Xpress account, a digital account that requires no documentation, minimum balance or paperwork, simply by downloading the Ecobank mobile app. With the Ecobank Xpress account, students will be able to access financial services such as airtime top up, funds transfer and bill payment from their mobile devices. Parents and guardians will also be able to transfer money to their children or wards’ Xpress accounts which they can withdraw without a card at any Ecobank ATM (using Xpress Cash) or Xpress Point”, he noted.

On the activities during the storms, he explained that at the various campuses the bank sets up free WiFi centres tagged the ‘Xpress Corner’, which gives students opportunity for free internet browsing and also affords the chance to win exciting prizes during the activation.