By Uzoma Akobundu
Nigerian banks may have kept most of their customers stranded less than 24 hours to the Christmas day following poor networks that hardly see transactions reach destination banks.
Many banks closed for business between 12 and 2pm on Tuesday, December 24 for the Christmas and Boxing Day break.
Some Nigerians who hitherto relied on their much touted e-banking platforms are worst hit in this dismal development.
Armadanews.com investigations revealed that transactions done online by bank customers after 8 hours still could be seen by the beneficiaries.
One of the customers of the much touted “good bank”, GTBank told our reporter that a transaction he made kept bouncing back.
Another customer said he tried sending money to someone from his Fidelity Bank account to GTBank, First Bank and Polaris and that at every point, the transaction was clogged with the recipients feeling shortchanged.
“I think something is wrong with the so-called Central Network the banks have subscribed to or the much talked about e-platform is a big fraud or better still, a big scam. How can the banks claim they are running e-banking when these minor challenges dog the system? So frustrating and unsettling to say the least,” one other customer told this medium before he said he was heading for one of the banks to try his ATM.