By Aduragbemi Omiyale
One of the financial institutions in Nigeria, First Bank, has announced that customers may find it difficult to carry out financial services through its platform this weekend.
In a message to its customers on Friday, the lender explained the planned downtime is to enable its engineers to maintain its platforms.
However, it disclosed that this would downtime would be experienced between 9:00 pm on Saturday, March 4, and 7:00 am on Sunday, March 5, 2023.
“We are running a scheduled maintenance on our platforms from 9:00 pm – 7 am on March 4 and 5, 2023. We will be back up and ready for you from 7 am,” the notice seen by Business Post read.
First Bank used the opportunity to caution its customers against revealing their vital banking details to anyone, stressing that it would not request them to do so.
“Please note that under no circumstance will we ask for sensitive transaction details such as your account ID, Password, card PIN, Token generated numbers or One Time Password (OTP) from you via phone call, SMS or email.
“When in doubt, please call FirstContact on 01-4485500, 0700FIRSTCONTACT (0700347782668228), 07080625000 or send an email to [email protected],” it stated.
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